...Isabel Allende’s Tone Towards the Disaster “And of Clay Are We Created” by Isabel Allende is a story based of real life events that occurred November 13, 1985, when the volcano Nevado Del Ruiz erupted. Due to the serious disasters, a girl, Azucena, was trapped beneath gravel and mud. A reporter, Rolf Carle, was sent to record her rescue, but instead Carle attempted to rescue the girl himself. Rolf Carle became emotionally attached Azucena, and stayed by Azucena’s side until her death. Allende utilizes tone by creating imagery to show her anxious, sympathetic. and melancholy feelings towards the disaster. To begin with, Isabel Allende used imagery to show her anxious feeling towards the disaster. For example, “I felt his frustration, his impotence.”(989) . Rolf Carle feels weak and powerless, because he cannot do anything to help Azucena. In this quote Allende is stating that Rolf, was so frustrated that Allende felt it too. Meaning that this quote represents her anxious tone, because it makes the reader feel sorry for the reporter Rolf. Another example,“They discovered the girl’s head protruding from the mudpit, eyes wide open, calling soundlessly”(984). Allende created this imagery to...
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...In traditional stories, “heroes” are portrayed as the masked, justice-driven super humans who halt villains and rescue victims from perilous situations. In reality, however, this isn’t the case. In Isabel Allende’s story And Of Clay Are We Created an emotionally repressed journalist befriends a girl on the verge of death; they “save” each other, though in the end they part ways forever. In 102 minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn, the tragedy that was 9/11 drives otherwise unlikely individuals to rush to the aid of the victims affected. In any turn of event that calls for a hero, even the most unexpected person can rise to the occasion. Heroes are not born but rather created by...
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