I Juan De Parja

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I Juan de Pareja takes place in various places during the 17th century. Juan, the main character in the story was born into slavery in the early 17th century. His mother was named Zulema but Juan was not told much about his father. Juan’s mother died when Juan was at age five. Juan does not the cause of death of his mother, and was told that she had went to heaven. That is basically the background info we are given at the start of the book. Let’s dive a little bit deeper into the beginning of the story Seville is a small town where Juan currently resides in with his first mistress, Dona Emilia. Juan de Pareja’s master, Basilio spent a lot of his time in the warehouse. He was frequently ill and this was apparent with his yellow skin. One day mistress decided to teach Juan de Pareja how to write so that he could …show more content…

Eventually Juan de Pareja’s master had died and Juan de Pareja wrote a letter to the mistress’s nephew After master's death we learn more about Juan de Pareja’s interest in painting. Juan talks about Pacheco, a great painter and how he love to visit a painters studio to, “watch him lay on the colors.” Unfortunately Juan de Pareja was typically too busy tending to mistress to visit Pacheco’s house. One day Juan de Pareja was able to get away from mistress to go to Pacheco’s house. It was a poor time to do so, since the painter’s daughter had recently died. During the funeral people talk about how, “There’s pest in the city.” Juan de Pareja was frightened by this and ran off to the bakehouse but there on the door was a red cross indicating that somebody is dying of the plague inside. Shortly after these events mistress had died, and now Juan de Pareja was ill. Brother Isidro had come to his house to cure him. Later Juan de Pareja’s house was sold and Juan de Pareja to move to Brother Isidro’s convent. Juan spends his time there taking care of the

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