And of Clay Are We Created

1. UNIT 5 - FICTION And of Clay Are We Created MS30135 SeongBin WOO

2. Isabel Allende • Born in Lima, Peru (1942) • Chilean American Writer • Magic Realism • <The House of the Spirits> • <Paula>

3. Author’s perspective • Is a unique blend of feelings, values, and beliefs that a writer brings to a subject;  the way an author looks at a topic or the ideas being described.  • “And of Clay Are We Created” contains echoes of Isabel Allende’s own life experiences as a former journalist and an exile from her native country. • ex) Isabel Allende’s journalistic experience is reflected in her descriptions of a disaster scene and her exploration of a reporter’s thoughts and feelings.

4. And of Clay Are We Created - Chracters Narrator : Eva Luna, lover of Rolf Carlé Rolf Carlé : Austrian-born journalist : protagonist : determined Azucena : girl trapped in mud pit

5. And of Clay Are We Created – Conflicts Man vs Nature Man vs Himself

6. And of Clay Are We Created – Conflicts Man vs Nature • Rolf Carlé had the advantage of the televisionhelicopter, which flew him over the avalanche • Rolf Carlé had a growth of beard, and dark circles beneath his eyes, he looked near exhaustion  • The spent the night talking, each in a stupor of exhaustion and hunger, and shaking with cold

7. And of Clay Are We Created – Conflicts Man vs Himself • He could watch events without actually participating in themthe fictive distance seemed to protect him from his own emotions. • There in the hellhole of mud, it was impossible for Rolf to fleefrom himself and longer, and the visceral terror he had lived as a boy invaded him • Sorrow flooded through him, intact and precise, as if it had lainalways in his mind, waiting

8. And of Clay Are We Created – Summary • Carlé’skept past is revealed with the development of his character in the conflicts presented • The purpose for his career was not to expose thetruth to the world, but to look for an alternativetruth in his mind