In the novel The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende the epilogue is a conclusion to all that has happening in the novel. In the novel ‘The House of the Spirits’ by Isabel Allende the epilogue is a conclusion to all that has happening in the novel. In demonstrates the overall themes of recurring cycles throughout the lives of the characters, and also of the importance of the past and memories. The cycles run throughout the book, but in the epilogue we see how they are beginning to be broken and new cycles are being formed. The tone of the final chapter is both hopeful and cheerful at the beginning, and melancholic almost to depression by the end. The symbol of the old house on the corner is powerfully portrayed in this final chapter, representing both Clara’s presence and spirituality, but also Esteban’s fading wealth and power. Magical realism is used to help distort the distinction between reality and fiction. Finally we see the growth of the central character of this chapter, and the narrators of the book, Alba and Esteban. In the epilogue of the novel, Alba has returned from being held in a concentration camp. She and her grandfather Esteban Trueba restore the old house on the corner. Esteban dies peacefully in Alba’s arms Alba is revealed to be pregnant and she begins to read her grandmother Clara’s diaries and her mother Blanca’s letters and begin to piece together the story the was just told. The one of the main themes in the epilogue, and in the entire novel is that of cycles, history repeating itself and fate. Alba has become pregnant, and is renewing the cycle by continuing life, making the end of the story the beginning of another one, the tale of her daughter. It also tells how the n... ... middle of paper ... ...y grandfather when he was young and stood six feet tall, irrefutable proof that Ferula’s curse came true and that his body shrank in the same proportions as his soul.’ To conclude, in the epilogue of the novel ‘The House of the Spirits’ we see finish to two of the major themes of the novel, memories and cycles. The tone of the chapter is a fitting ending, as it is both optimistic but at the same time cheerless about the events of the past. We observe an example of the magical realism used throughout the novel, the better show the involvement of spiritual aspects in the characters, especially Clara’s, lives. The house on the corner, a strong symbol through the novel has been restored, emphasizing the cycles seen in the novel. And finally, the characters have developed to a stage where they have become whole and are ready to begin new cycles of their own.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down tells the story of a young Hmong girl stricken with epilepsy, her family, her doctors, and how misunderstandings between cultures can lead to tragedy. The title comes from the Hmong term for epilepsy, which translated, is “the spirit catches you and you fall down”. Anne Fadiman alternates between chapters on Hmong history or culture and chapters on the Lees, and specifically Lia. The condensed history of the Hmong portrayed here starts at their beginning, and traces their heritage, their movements, and why they do what they do as they flee from enemies to country to country. This record allows the reader to better understand the Lees and their situation without bogging him down with details that may
"At the very end of the novel- what is represented as being important? Find two quotes to illustrate this".
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman is about the cross-cultural ethics in medicine. The book is about a small Hmong child named Lia Lee, who had epilepsy. Epilepsy is called, quag dab peg1 in the Hmong culture that translates to the spirit catches you and you fall down. In the Hmong culture this illness is sign of distinction and divinity, because most Hmong epileptics become shaman, or as the Hmong call them, txiv neeb2. These shamans are special people imbued with healing spirits, and are held to those having high morale character, so to Lia's parents, Foua Yang and Nao Kao Lee, the disease was both a gift and a curse. The main question in this case was could Lia have survived if her parent's and the doctors overcame the miscommunication, cultural racism, and the western way of medicine.
In the short stories “The school teachers Guest”, “Phantom Palace”, and Walima” by Isabel Allende, She uses Political injustices, Magical realism, and she manipulates the realistic use of time.
Communication is cited as a contributing factor in 70% of healthcare mistakes, leading to many initiatives across the healthcare settings to improve the way healthcare professionals communicate. (Kohn, 2000.)
As the chapter opens, the first impression of Sire is one of a James Dean type of character. Sire and his friends are just sitting on their bikes, pitching pennies, or in other words, gambling. Esperanza tells us that she is scared of them, which makes me wonder why she would be afraid of them? She then says how her dad calls him a “punk.”
At the end of the story, Toby goes through an event that is action packed, and the ending of that event is what leads the book into revealing the overall theme.
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...esents the final chapters of the novel by having Dimmesdale finally atone for his long, hidden secret, and ultimately redeeming himself.
Nine patriarchs found a town. Four women flee a life. Only one paradise is attained. Toni Morrison's novel Paradise revolves around the concept of "paradise," and those who believe they have it and those who actually do. Morrison uses a town and a former convent, each with its own religious center, to tell her tale about finding solace in an oppressive world. Whether fleeing inter- and intra-racial conflict or emotional hurt, the characters travel a path of self-isolation and eventual redemption. In her novel Paradise, Toni Morrison uses the town of Ruby and four broken women to demonstrate how "paradise" can not be achieved through isolation, but rather only through understanding and acceptance.
Throughout many of Toni Morrison?s novels, the plot is built around some conflict for her characters to overcome. Paradise, in particular, uses the relationships between women as a means of reaching this desired end. Paradise, a novel centered around the destruction of a convent and the women in it, supports this idea by showing how this building serves as a haven for dejected women (Smith). The bulk of the novel takes place during and after WWII and focuses on an all black town in Oklahoma. It is through the course of the novel that we see Morrison weave the bonds of women into the text as a means of healing the scars inflicted upon her characters in their respective societies.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the subjective “history” of the founding family of the town of Macondo. During its early years, the town is isolated the outside world, except for a few traveling gypsies who frequent the town, selling supposedly extraordinary new technologies like ice, telescopes, and “scientific advancements” and implanting ideas of alchemy into the head of the patriarch of the Buendía family, José Arcadio Buendía. A rather impulsive and inquisitive man, he is also deeply solitary, alienating himself from other men in his obsessive investigations into the science of alchemy, taking the last of his wife, Úrsula’s, inheritance in an attempt to create gold out of other more common methods. After José Arcadio Buendía’s attempts at alchemy prove to be less than fruitful, he shifts his aspirations to finding a path back to civilization. He leads the founding men of the town on a quest to retrace their previous path to Macondo, but ultimately declares that it is surrounded by water on every side and it is impossible to regain contact with the rest of the world.
the end of the novel as both the women in his life have other men at