THOTS: 300-433

"He was awakened by the ring of the telephone. It was the secretary, her voice slightly agitated, who scared his drowsiness away. She was calling from the Presidential Palace to inform him that he should present himself there as soon as possible; no, the President was not ill; no, she was not sure what was happening, she had simply been instructed to call all the President's doctors. Jaime dressed like a sleepwalker and got into his car, grateful that his profession entitled him to a weekly ration of gasoline; otherwise he would have had to go by bicycle."(367)

Context: This passage is during the military coup and this is the part when Jaime is called by the President.

Connecting Idea: This passage deals with the mood of urgency.

1. This first passage does not deal with any literary devices. This is so because it sets up the scene for the audience and it is suppose to give off the sense of urgency due to the "awakened by the ring of the telephone" This means that Jaime was asleep which you can conclude that this is obviously a urgent matter because whomever is calling has something urgent to tell Jaime.

2. This next sentence deals with personification. The secretary's voice is personified as human due to how it "scared his drowsiness away" This sentence also shows a sense of urgency due to the "her voice slightly agitated" by being slightly agitated plus calling during the night shows the sense of urgency within this passage.

3. This next sentence does not have any literary devices but contributes to the connecting idea of urgency. The fact that the President is calling Jaime to meet with him and his secretary has to call Jaime in the middle of the night shows the sense of urgency. The President was not sick, so this is not any official business but the fact that he, the President, is calling for Jaime shows the intensity of the urgency.

4. This final sentence incorporates similes within it. The simile within this sentence,"Jaime dressed like a sleepwalker" shows how Jaime reacts to the Presidents request to see him in the middle of the night and this connects back to the main idea of urgency.

SOLMAT

THOTS: 240-300

"Without her scandalous mane of hair and her sphinx eyes, she looked fifteen. To Jaime, her vulnerability was more seductive than anything that had attracted him before. He felt twice as large, twice as heavy, and a thousand times stronger, but he knew he was defeated from the start because of his tenderness he felt and his desire to protect her. He cursed his invincible sentimentality and tried to see her as his brothers lover, a woman on whom he had just performed an abortion, but he immediately realized how impossible that was and surrendered to the pleasure and suffering of loving her."(242)

Context: This is after Jaime performs an abortion on Amanda, Nicolas girlfriend.

Connecting Idea: This passage deals with the mood of lust and pleasure but also forbidden love.

1. This starting sentence deals with metaphors. The metaphors used in this sentence are used to convey the lust Jaime has for Amanda,"scandalous mane of hair and her sphinx eyes" The scandalous mane of hair and sphinx eyes are both characteristics of sexual like features which appeals to a mans sense of lust for another woman.

2. This next sentence does not display any literary devices within it. This sentence was written primarily for the reason of conveying lust and pleasure that Jaime has for Amanda after he gives her the abortion. This connects to the main idea cause of his lust towards her vulnerability.

3. The following sentence uses anaphora within it. Anaphora is used to convey the intensity of the power this woman has over Jaime, a man that is bigger and stronger than she is. This connects back to the main idea due to the love that Jaime has for Amanda but he knows that she is in a relationship with his brother.

4. This final sentence and rather long sentence deals with metaphor's and personification. The metaphor "He cursed his invincible sentimentality" means that he is upset with his strong sense of sentimentality towards his brothers girlfriend, Amanda. The personification used in the sentence "surrendered to the pleasure and suffering of loving her" connects back alongside with the metaphor to the main idea of lust and pleaure but also forbidden love due to him surrendered to the pleasure and also suffering of loving her.

SOLMAT

THOTS: 180-240

"Clara and Blanca arrived in the city looking like disaster victims. Both had swollen faces, eyes red from crying, and rumpled clothes from the long train ride and Blanca, weaker than her mother although she was taller, younger, and heavier, sighed when she was awake and sobbed while she slept, in an uninterrupted lament that had begun the day of the beating. But Clara had no patience with misfortune, so when they reached the big house on the corner, which was as empty and lugubrious as a mausoleum, she decided that the time had come to bring some joy into their lives."(209)

Context: This excerpt is from the part when Blanca and Clara return to the city from Tres Marias

Connecting Idea: This Passage deals with the mood of tiredness or worn out

1. The first sentence does not incorporate any literary devices, it was only used to set up the scene. This sentence gives the reader a sense of how worn out the two women are from Tres Marias and incorporates the main idea of tiredness and worn out due to the " looking like disaster victims."

2. This sentence primarily uses imagery to convey how tired the women are from Tres Maria. The "Both had swollen faces, eyes red from crying, and rumpled clothes from the long train ride and Blanca, weaker than her mother"shows the intensity of the how tired the women really are. The main idea of how the passage conveys tiredness and worn out is shown through the imagery used in the quotes.

3. This sentence uses personification to make misfortune seem human-like when it is truly just an emotion. After the misfortune at Tres Marias, the mother and daughter are worn out and want to do something more enjoyable. This connected with the main idea at first but changed.

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