And of Clay Are We Created From The

“And of Clay Are We Created” From The Stories of Eva Luna By: Isabel Allende © 1989 In Spanish, 1991 English Translation Presentation By: Hannah Holtzman

Story Background Information • Based on real event. • Actual news accounts about a young girl trapped following a volcanic eruption in Columbia. • Omaira Sanchez = Azucena

Isabel Allende’s Background • Born 1942 • Became magazine and television journalist in Chile. • 1973 – Exiled from Chile • 1991 – Daughter died from incurable disease

Author’s Purpose • Relates to a real story that touched her • Relates to her own life • Relates the characters to herself and others

Literary Elements External Conflict 1. Man vs. Nature Ex. Azucena faces the eruption of the volcano. And is trapped in mud, clay, and water.

Literary Elements Setting Ex. “The towns in the valley went about their daily life, deaf to the moaning of the earth, until that fateful Wednesday night in November…” (Allende 1, lines 1617)

Literary Elements Suspense Ex. “…was convinced that everything would end well…” (Allende 5, lines 112 -113)

Literary Elements Point of View First Person Ex. “Many miles away, I watched Rolf Carle and the girl on a television screen. I could not bear the wait at home…” (Allende 5, lines 126127)

Literary Elements Mood Ex. “They discovered the girl’s head protruding from the mud pit, eyes wide open, calling soundlessly. ” (Allende 1, lines 1 -2)

Figurative Language Metaphor Ex. “She sank slowly, a flower in the mud. ” (Allende 10, lines 304305)

Figurative Language Simile Ex. “Sorrow flooded through him, intact and precise, as if it had lain always in his mind, waiting”

Figurative Language Hyperbole Ex. “…until that fateful Wednesday night in November when a prolonged roar announced the end of the world…”

Figurative Language Imagery Ex. “…unbearable image of the head budding like a black squash…”

Tone Ex. “I watched that hell on the first morning broadcast, cadavers(dead bodies) of people and animals awash in the current of new rivers formed overnight from the melted snow. ”

Style • “The towns in the valley went about their daily life, deaf to the moaning of the earth, until that fateful Wednesday night in November when a prolonged roar announced the end of the world, and walls of snow broke loose, rolling in an avalanche of clay, stones, and water that descended on the villages and buried them beneath unfathomable meters of telluric(relating to the earth) vomit. ”

Omaira Sanchez • Trapped in clay for 55 hours from volcanic eruption • Held down by concrete slab from house and her aunt’s dead body • Blood pressure dropped so low that she suffered from a heart attack and died. http: //www. youtube. com/watch? hl=en&gl=US&client=mv-google&v=B 0_K_3 yz. QA&nomobile=1

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