(There is a reason why she never explicitly names the time or place of her story. Shmoop ISBN/UID: 2940000702017 Format: Digital Language: English Publisher: Shmoop University, Inc. Even as Allende shows us the political motivations of Chilean men in power, her novel begs us to reflect on how such motivations may not be isolated to just Chilean men. acts the way it does with other countries. Our shared political histories can also make us more aware of why the U.S. Now a historical fact, America’s tangled alliance with a repressive, political regime can compel us to think about, perhaps even sympathize with, for example, the roots of Miguel’s political discontent. can cause us to pause and ponder our definitions of democracy.Ĭonsider how the American government actually supported the conservative, military coup of the democratically-elected Salvador Allende. However, the political ties between Chile and the U.S. Allende’s fictionalization of the events leading up to Chile’s 1973 military coup foregrounds all the things the “average” American hasn’t had to worry about in centuries: juntas, guerilla warfare, revolution. Take the topic of Chile’s sordid political past. Allende’s complicated novel, complete with intertwining family trees, pushes us to rethink the relationship between “American” and “Latin American.” In a time when the population of Latino-Americans is rising to even greater heights, Allende’s novel might be a lot less “difficult” or “foreign” than we think. It’s also a novel completely grounded in the language, culture, and history of a whole other country, one that probably isn’t all that familiar to the average American student. (5.44) (5.44) Pedro Tercero is the first of the peasant farmers on Esteban Truebas land to resolve to get an education.
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How does one begin to speak about, much less teach, The House of the Spirits? It’s a novel full of action, romance, lust, violence, and, of course, ghosts. Rain or shine, he would leave his small brick house at five oclock in the morning, by horse or on foot.
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