Isabel Allende Research Paper

Isabel Allende was an inspiring Hispanic author, who went through many hardships in her life, yet she was still able to be successful with her writing career. Isabel mostly wrote for young adolescents, (children and young adults). A few of her most well-known novels are The House of Spirits, Paula, The Stories of Eva Luna, and Of Love and Shadows. In her novels, she mentioned many of the things she had gone through in her past and expressed her true emotions about the subject. Isabel Allende is a very strong writer both mentally and physically. Being able to survive a terrible situation and having the strength to write about it is truly amazing.
From very young Isabel Allende has had a very tough life. Her father, Tomas Allende was the secretary
More than fifteen million copies of her books have been published in twenty-seven languages, making her the best-selling woman writer in the world today. Her literary career began unexpectedly, her first novel The House of the Spirits, was not planned as a work of fiction, but came from a series of letters Allende wrote to her dying grandfather, Agustin Llona. “People die only when they are forgotten,” her beloved grandfather had once told her. After the death of her grandfather and her second cousin, Salvador Allende, Isabel was writing letters back home trying to tell her grandfather in Santiago what life was like in faraway Venezuela. In Of Love and Shadows, Allende elaborated on her ideas of political reactions with revolutionary politics. Allende moved in a different direction to feminist themes in her next two works, Eva Luna, and The Stories of Eva Luna. In these works, she created a feminist heroine who was a likeness of Allende’s own ego ideal, a Latina Scheherazada who served both as a model and an inspiration to millions of young women readers. Her next book was The Infinite Plan, an autobiographical novel