The Challenges Of Nieve In Everyone Leaves

Everyone Leaves is interesting story because of all the challenges the protagonist has to overcome to progress in her life. In the book the common theme that arises is that everyone must face challenges for the better or worse of the person. Nieve, the protagonist of the story,is faced with multiple challenges that forms or shapes her mind, and changes her personality as she progresses in her life. In Everyone Leaves, Wendy Guerra reveals the theme that everyone must face challenges for the better or worse of the person through Nieve, as she deals with the challenges of loss, love, and pain. In the book there is many examples that demonstrate the connection between the theme and Nieve. Throughout the story, Nieve encounters many challenges that change her in different ways. A significant challenge shown

Such as Nieve faces the experience of love. She deals with the challenge of love really well as she meets her first love, Osvaldo. Wendy Guerra writes, “I can still remember Osvaldo’s smell: a blend of wet leather, oil paint turpentine, and English lavender. I could feel his hair is wet. He offered me his hand and I trembled” (175). This demonstrates Nieve’s love for Osvaldo by the highly detailed description of just his smell and also how she reacts towards Osvaldo offering his hand for her. The challenge of love was good for Nieve because it helped her grow her own character but sadly her love for Osvaldo dissipated until a new love is sparked when she meets Antonio. Wendy Guerra writes, “ Antonio shines without the diamonds,the light from his sleep awakens me. His beauty is enormous and swallows me whole” (230). This shows really well of how Nieve feels love towards Antonio, through the explicit way of how she expresses him. This challenge of love is really good for Nieve because it helps her mature. With the challenge of being a experience that people can from, it is a good