Politics In Esteban Trueba's The House Of The Spirits

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“As I’ve always said, they’re like children. There’s not one of them can do what he’s supposed to do without me there behind him driving him on” (The House of the Spirits, 65). One overarching theme in the text is politics and the idea that the patrón had undisputed power. From the moment that Esteban Trueba stepped into the town of Tres Marías and established himself as a leader, all of the peasants who lived there gave their full attention and respects to him and his orders. They did not know who he was, nor even recognize him, but they listened and abided to his rules regardless (solely because of this political status as patrón). Esteban was not rich at the time so he held no status in that way, but he was a powerful leader that was easy

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