Aura

Plot Summary

Chapter 5

Transformation.

Character Summaries

Chapters 3 & 4

The search begins...

Consuelo's past...

Fantasies and dreams....

Felipe Montero

Consuelo Llorente

Aura

General Llorente

Chapters 1 & 2

A newspaper ad...

A shadowy house...

A beautiful girl...

Aura

by: Carlos Fuentes

Symbols/Motifs

Influence on Aura

Conflict

• Dreams
• Darkness
• Green eyes
• Second-person
• Doll

Socialistic Views

Criticism of Capitalism

Magical Realism

Author Background

Money/Morality

Love/Fear

Literary Analysis

Theme/Setting

Biography

Mexico, Early 1960s

"Fuentes discusses the blinding characteristics of love and greed through Felipe's dream-like entrancement for Aura and money."