Sharing Of Bread By Vale Lispector Analysis

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In this world, some people struggle to find for a job, behind the search is a dreadful life, the person is treated horribly through society based on their look. Through Latin literature, this is shown by a perspective of an author's experience of his/her life. Isabel Allende and Clarice Lispector are both Latino Americans and was writing in the generation of Garcia Marquez. Both authors give their experience to show how a person felt through a tough life in Chile and Brazil. The experience Latin authors express to a reader is shown through metaphors, simile and analogy. The literary elements of each device can show a way how a character felt about a person's life through the times of writing, showing a dark theme.

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In Latin American authors use simile to show one way a person's past is expressed in Latin literature. One way they show dark simile is through a person being humiliated. Clarice Lispector expresses a person's goal being crushed through the story “The Sharing of Bread.” “Where it could be crumpled like a handkerchief”(324 Lispector), representing how dreams were crushed by others quickly, expressing a dark theme through a person's horrific past. Another way Latin American authors use dark similes’ is through fear. Isabel Lispector shares an expression of terror in her story “An Angel’s Disquiet”. “It was like an incoming tide which brought enough water”(327 Lispector), giving an expression where the person has a feeling of being frighten, which is where the dark theme is shown. Another way Latin American authors utilize a simile is to express a person's dark past. Clarice Lispector expresses a person in a society in a dark way with a usage of simile in her story The Sharing of Bread. “It exists like some territory where we all advance”(326 Lispector), showing where a person had gone through a horrific past with it’s own society, showing a dark theme. Additionally, metaphors and similes used in Latin literature is one way authors create a dark past in people's life. However, analogy can be developed through both metaphors and similes, expressing what a person felt when going through dark …show more content…

One use of analogy is created by Clarice Lispector's story An Angels Disquiet. “The taxi could scarcely move through.. But it was moving”(327 Lispector). This quote gives an idea of fear and time to developing a dark expression through the story, which shows a dark feeling to a person. The dark feeling the author gives to a reader shows a dark theme through the story. Another way authors express an analogy is through a person's choice that are given to them. In Isabel Allende's story Two Words, the character in the story is given two options about her life. “Concluded that aside from becoming a prostitute or working as a servant in the kitchens of the rich”(367 Allende). The quote represents two options given to the character, where both options would ruin her life, therefore expressing a dark moment for a person. Furthermore, the dark moment expressed shows a dark through the story. Like dark choices, a person could be facing darkness with how they look. Clarice Lispector gives an example of a person facing of how they look. “Wrung the water from my hair… but I have been weeping”(327 Lispector), additionally, the quote showing how the character feels after being judged a lot through her past, showing a dark theme. With the usage of metaphors. similes, and analogy is one way Latin American authors use to show how darkness was like in a person's past, concluding to a dark theme through the author's

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