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The best novels circulate around intricate topics that lead to a change or realization in its readers. Isabel Allende is an author who can affect her readers with her talent of weaving complex themes into captivating plots that enraptures readers. Her inspiration comes from the personal struggles she overcame in life. She experienced misfortunes because of the political strife in Chile and obstacles becoming a writer relating to her gender. The trials and tribulations she confronted in her life has inspired Allende’s many works of novels, plays, and short stories as well as the person she is today (Kellman, Steven G., and Frank N. Magill). Allende’s trek begins in Lima, Peru, August 2, 1942, her birthday (May, Charles E., and Frank N. Magill). …show more content…

Allende is a feminist with a covenant to social justice and experience with corrupt governments (Isabel Allende Biography). She is a woman who believes in generosity, justice, and love. She writes about these topics, claiming she’s writing for the people with no political power, that she is their voice. She uses them in her novels to portray “themes of political and social strife, self-discovery, and self-acceptance” as well as love, sex, and vengeance (Kellman, Steven G., and Frank N. Magill; May, Charles E., and Frank N. Magill). Her novels tend to circulate around those themes with and female characters usually being focus: The Stories of Eva Luna is about a woman selling words with powerful messages, Ines of My Soul is about finding love in the New World, and The House of The Spirits is about political issues with subtle hints of feminism in a society where women are underappreciated and exploited (Kellman, Steven G., and Frank N. Magill). Through her writing style, she is able to create intricate novels that enraptures the reader and induces them to deeply interpret the messages of the literature (May, Charles E., and Frank N. Magill). She stands out as an author in that she uses a style of writing some call magical realism, a literary device where history, dreams, myths, emotions, and such forces exist in the world of the novel. This device allows for the reality in the book to reach beyond reason and analysis (Kellman, Steven G., and Frank N. Magill). She personally describes her fiction to be “realistic literature” and, on a quirky note, always begins her novels on January 8, the day she first wrote The House of the Spirits, the novel that started off her career (Magill, Frank N., and Tracy

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