Honors Spanish III - Fragmentos

La Peste de Insomnio

• Se mezclan elementos reales e irreales.

• a town that succumbs to a highly contagious plague of sleeplessness and amnesia

• it mixes magic with reality but the characters in the story don't see the magic as odd

Como Agua para Chocolate

• the youngest daughter in the family (Tita), as she fights for true love and independence. Bounded by the family tradition, she follows the duty of the youngest daughter to take care of her mother until she dies and never gets married.

Romance de la Luna, Luna

• tells the story of a young gypsy boy and the moon. His love and infatuation with the moon leads to his death.

• This poem not only tells the story of this young child's demise, but also shows the effects when someone is lured in by an appealing temptation.

• La luna esta asociada con la muerte. Los gitanos son figuras de gran pasion, belleza, y misterio.

La Casa de Los Espiritus

• Es aceptar que la vida es muy misteriosa y que pasan cosas que no tienen ninguna explicación, cosas que no puedes controlar, pero que se manifiestan en la realidad. La diferencia entre fantasía y realismo mágico es que en la fantasía nunca ves una manifestación de lo fantástico