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MAGICAL REALISM

price of youth

Monday, September 29, 2014

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Author Background

Carlos Fuentes

"Man of Letters"

Aura

Unseen Characters:

General Llorente

Servant (or nah)

Characters:

Felipe Montero

Senora Consuelo Llorrente

Aura

-Globally Educated (Argentina, U.S., Chile, Switzerland

-Mexican Ambassador to France

-Used outside perspective to convey injustice in Mexico

-Experiments with points of view and concepts of time

-Fuentes adopted Marxist ideals

- survived by one child

- privileged upbringing

-Born in 1928 in Panama City

-Died in 2012 in Mexico City

Plot Summary

Literary Analysis

(themes, conflict, symbols etc.)

Themes:

  • love
  • mortality
  • youth

Reoccuring Motifs and Symbols:

-second person point of view

-Old vs. Youth

-Religion vs. Magic

-tone:mystical sultry

-imagery

-ambiguous

-La Llorona

-Montero finds newspaper ad (specificity)

-informal job acceptance (Consuelo)

-Montero learns to accept their weird ways

-He rewrites husband's memoirs using letters and accounts from General Llorente

-mystical lust overtakes Montero

-notices strange connection (skinning the kid and the synchronized talking)

-Felipe finishes reading the last of Llorante's accounts

-Aura turns into Consuelo

-Montero turns into General Llorante

  • animals (Saga, cats, rats, skinned kid)
  • the color green (Aura and Consuelo)
  • the garden/herb

"It falls on Aura's eroded face, as brittle and yellowed as the memoirs, as creased with wrinkles as the photographs" (Fuentes 416).

External Sources: (MLA)

"Carlos Fuentes Biography." -- Academy of Achievement. N.p.,

n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2014.

"LA LLORONA - A HISPANIC LEGEND." LA LLORONA - A HISPANIC LEGEND. N.p.,

n.d. Web. 29 Sept. 2014.

URL for pictures:

http://newamericamedia.org/2012/05/carlos-fuentes-champion-of-mexican-democracy.php

http://lauralmcdermott.blogspot.com/

http://www.shutterstock.com/s/%22old+face%22/search.html

http://www.moillusions.com/waterfall-woman-illusion/

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