Isabel Allende's The House Of The Spirits
The House of the Spirits
After reading many sections from various novels by Isabel Allende in Spanish class. I was in intrigued to read one of ther books. After noticing, that The House of the Spirits was one of my options I knew that was the one. Her writing style is so unique and it really makes you “step out” of your comfort zone. Though, the book at times was very hard to understand there was a lot of different things that made me want to keep reading it. It was mainly a more feminine novel and often showed that women were the main role in the story. It was a book within a book that told the story of a family from generation to generations. I can not lie, but her book made me grab a dictionary a lot more then I have in any other …show more content…
Clara, Blanca, and Alba remain the “main focus” while the person they love in this case Esteban, Pedro Tercero, and Miguel become more of secondary characters. There is a lot of description told on base of the women’s actions such as each of their birth as well as what happens to the that unjustifiable like sexual violence and physical too. Each of the female characters in The House of The Spirits is a strong willed person and they do not let them selves be brought down by men. "Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but that they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence"[8]. From what I tried to depict the women were percieved by me to be the “innocence” of human life in the novel. All the women fight for what they want in a non-violent way.They are not as violent as women who fought for their rights in or U.S History, rather they are more quite and make the changes more subtle without causing any revolts. It gives the opinion of Isabel Allende in a discreet way in opinion. She wants us to percieve from the story that what women do has a more permanent effect than that of the men. What women teach about health, and how to manage things doesn’t dissamble as fast as those of the men who are in the government and their plan and changes do not last forever and actually it brings more problems than
After reading many sections from various novels by Isabel Allende in Spanish class. I was in intrigued to read one of ther books. After noticing, that The House of the Spirits was one of my options I knew that was the one. Her writing style is so unique and it really makes you “step out” of your comfort zone. Though, the book at times was very hard to understand there was a lot of different things that made me want to keep reading it. It was mainly a more feminine novel and often showed that women were the main role in the story. It was a book within a book that told the story of a family from generation to generations. I can not lie, but her book made me grab a dictionary a lot more then I have in any other …show more content…
Clara, Blanca, and Alba remain the “main focus” while the person they love in this case Esteban, Pedro Tercero, and Miguel become more of secondary characters. There is a lot of description told on base of the women’s actions such as each of their birth as well as what happens to the that unjustifiable like sexual violence and physical too. Each of the female characters in The House of The Spirits is a strong willed person and they do not let them selves be brought down by men. "Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but that they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence"[8]. From what I tried to depict the women were percieved by me to be the “innocence” of human life in the novel. All the women fight for what they want in a non-violent way.They are not as violent as women who fought for their rights in or U.S History, rather they are more quite and make the changes more subtle without causing any revolts. It gives the opinion of Isabel Allende in a discreet way in opinion. She wants us to percieve from the story that what women do has a more permanent effect than that of the men. What women teach about health, and how to manage things doesn’t dissamble as fast as those of the men who are in the government and their plan and changes do not last forever and actually it brings more problems than