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The Stories of Eva Luna stories-en-1 (Wicked Girl (Magical Realism (odd…

- - - - With the exception of Ana and Roberto, whose love had sheltered them from despair—everyone had aged two hundred years. (p. 188)
      - While Ana and Roberto were in exile from their country, they had to spend two years on a boat since the boat was not allowed to enter any country's port. Everyone on the boat aged 200 years but the power of Ana and Roberto's love kept them young.
      - Time is seen as an ever present entity, that does not end after death. Roberto and Ana had the desire to transcend our current plane of physical reality, to whatever comes after, which from the story seems like a eternity of some sort where all that exists is energy.
    - - dark irony: Roberto is a true believer in euthanasia, but when it comes down to killing himself he cannot do it on his own
- - - - Time plays a big role in this story since time is possibly the reason why Elena forgets about her sexual advances with Bernal, which constitutes for the twist ending of the story.
    - - imbalance of power between Bernal and Elena (age gap) contribute to an ongoing characteristic of magical realism: odd relationship dynamics
      - also plays into obsession, how Bernal has power over Elena and occupies her thoughts, and vice versa in the end.
    - - As time passes, Bernal becomes obsessed with Elena and this exposes his pedophilia. When Elena returns home, all grown up, he apologizes for pushing her off the bed when she made her advances on him, but she unable to remember these memories due to her possible trauma. It's a plot twist because throughout the entire novel, Elena is obsessed with Bernal, and then in the end Bernal is obsessed with Elena, who doesn't even remember this happening.
  - - - The entire story details Elena's intense obsession with Bernal. She put on his clothes, lied in his bed, "sucked his toothbrush, licked his shaving cream, caressed his dirty clothes." As time passes, Bernal becomes obsessed with Elena and when Elena finally returns home as a young woman, he confesses his obsession for her and she doesn't remember him.
      - "...because for what had seemed a lifetime he had been consumed by a constant burning desire for her...[but] she had left her childhood far behind, and the pain of that first rejected love was locked in some sealed compartment of memory. She did not remmeber any particular Thursday in her past."
    - - This story is shedding light on the innocence of underage girls and boys and the developmental disparity in statutory relationships.
    - - Unconventional Girl wants Boy, Boy wants Girl trope: Elena at first is obsessed with Bernal, but the obsession is not reciprocated. After Elena is sent to a convent for acting on her desires, Bernal begins to become obsessed with Elena. Twist: pedophilia
- - - - The magical realism seems to be the power dynamic/ age difference and obsession between the characters. The Obsession can be represented by Sanchez's actions and thoughts throughout story: daydreaming about Ester, doing everything he can to save her, believing she is the only person for him
        
        Obsession can be shown by Sanchez not leaving the town for a better career and staying to watch Elena grow up. Also through the line of him wishing he was born ten years before so he could be old enough to date Ester.
  - - - Static Character: For years, Sanchez doesn't do anything but lust after Estero Lucero; even though he gets older, he never really changes. Most people would move on but he just keeps thinking about her.
    - - Man vs. Society: The only thing holding Sanchez back from being with Ester Lucero is societal norms on age gap relationships. "If I was born 20 years earlier, then we would have been together" - Sanchez
    - - non linear flashbacks
        
        During healing dance story goes back in time to tell story of how he discovered this healing dance while being a rebel soldier
    - - He does what he does due to his sexual and romantic infatuation with an underage girl
- - - - Tone: bleak/ dramatic. The element of fiction in this story seems to be the overall atmosphere or tone of bleakness “ shot himself in the head” (pg 220-230) all very 'state of the fact'
      - Authorial Reticence: We do not know if Analia went off with her son's teacher/ catfish or not.
        "The schoolmaster put on his jacket and stood up. They walked out into the bustle of the patio, where a late sun was still shining." (pg. 239)
      - Plot twist: While we think Analia is just visiting her son's teacher casually, we learn that Analia knew all this time that her son's teacher was the actual person she fell in love with. As she was sending fruits to her son's class and admiring her son's graded papers, we learn this is all due to her knowing his teacher is her true soul mate.
    - - Fate and destiny play into this story as well. Analia finds her soul mate in the end.
      - When she sees her son's graded papers she recognizes the teacher's hand writing from the letters she received years before. The fact that she knows his teacher is her catfishing lover from the past, makes me believe that there is some underlying force that is working within this story.
      - Odd relationship dynamics
        
        Analia married her cousin
- - - - Allende uses the characterization of Angel Sanchez to make the reader feel a pull between liking and hating Angel Sanchez. She creates this contrast between feeling for Angel Sanchez because he saves Ester Lucero's life and also being disgusted by him because he's a pedophile. In the end she leaves it up to her audience to decide whether or not Sanchez is a hero or a creep.
    - - Authorial reticence, an element of style, is a big part of "Interminable Life," and in turn has a lasting impact on the reader, because the reader doesn't know if Eva Luna helps Roberto take his life or not. It's both frustrating and personal, because two different people can interpret the ending in two different ways.
    - - The twisted plot and style of "Wicked Girl" has an interesting effect of the reader; each plot point is evocative of a different emotion. When Elena first meets Bernal and initially dislikes him, the reader disapproves of him, as he is portrayed as a picky, snobbish pervert. During the dancing scene, Allende portrays Bernal as romantic and sensitive. Throughout the story, Allende's characterization of Bernal is key to the reader's opinion of him. By the end of the story, Bernal has transformed from snobbish to romantic to disgusting. This rapid transformation, driven by plot, characterization, and style, leaves the reader feeling slightly shocked and bewildered.
    - - Even though Vidal is dislikable, part of his characterization is that he is motivated by love for his mother, and that the only reason why he tries to kill the Judge is to avenge her. This allows the reader to feel for Nicolas, because parent-child love is relatable to pretty much everyone.
    - - Similar to in "Interminable Life" the use of authorial reticence, a stylistic device, leaves the reader with a sense of mystery at the end of "Letters of Betrayed Love."
- - - - Magical Realism
        
        Dramatic Dialogue: "Three days ago her husband was absent locked in his office, awaiting Nicolas Vidal with a senseless determination. "(pg 74) "But Nicholas Vidal preferred to wrap his arms to kiss her for the last time, thus fulling the prophecy."(76) Such dramatic dialogue makes the story stand out and can turn a non-thrilling scene into a thrilling one.
        
        Fate: Nicholas's fortune teller at told him he was to die from loving a woman, and in the end he did.
        
        The Magical Realism: can be shown by the depressing death of Nicholas's mother symbolizing failure in Nicholas upbringing "The mother descended from the hill."(pg 74)
      - Elements of Fiction
        
        Foreshadowing: Nicholas's fortune teller foreshadowed his demise at the end of the book. The text to back this is " He predicted on the day of his birth and confirmed by the owner of the store on the only occasion when he allowed him to see him fortune." (Pg 72)
        
        Nicolas Vidal had always known that a woman would cost him his life. That had been prophesied on the day he was born and confirmed by the proprietress of the general store on the one occasion he had permitted her to read his fortune in the coffee drugs
        (p. 145)
        
        Characterization
        
        Character Motivation: there seems to be an overarching sense of character motivation through Nicholas wanting to kill the Judge for his mother's death. Also how the Judge had a motivation to kill Nicholas for his harsh crimes