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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro"
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro"
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro"
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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro"

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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMar 1, 2016
    ISBN9781535826228
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro"

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      A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "Zorro" - Gale

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      Zorro

      Isabel Allende

      2005

      Introduction

      The Chilean American novelist Isabel Allende almost refused to write her 2005 novel Zorro. She was indeed interested in the legendary character. She enjoyed watching modern film versions of his story with her grandchildren and, in the interview "Loving Zorro, Writing Zorro, admitted, As a young woman I was in love with Zorro. However, when the owners of the character's copyright approached her with the idea of writing a novel about him, she was almost insulted: she remembered thinking, I am a serious writer, I don't write on commission." But the idea of inventing Zorro's youth—telling the tale of what turned him into a masked hero—captured Allende's imagination. She threw herself into the project, researching the period, traveling to all of the novel's locations, and even taking fencing lessons. The result is a book rich with historical detail. The novel is both a fun adventure story and an in-depth exploration of timeless themes like friendship, justice, and the role of religion in society. There are some mature topics in the novel, such as sexual situations and violence, making it more appropriate for older students.

      Author Biography

      Isabel Allende Llona was born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru. Her family lived there because her father was the Chilean ambassador to Peru. Allende did not see Chile, her native country, until she was four years old, when her father abandoned the family. Allende's mother took her three children and moved back home to Santiago with her parents. Some years later, Allende's mother was married again, to a man who was also a diplomat, and Allende spent much of her adolescence in Bolivia and Lebanon. The family was in Beirut when civil war broke out in Lebanon, and Allende was sent home. She was sixteen years old and lived with her grandparents again. She traveled extensively with her grandfather and learned to truly love Chile.

      Allende married Miguel Frías in 1962. They had two children together, Paula in 1963 and Nicolás in 1966, but it was not a happy marriage. They were divorced in 1987, and Allende married an American, Willie Gordon, a year later. As of 2012, they were living in San Rafael, California.

      Allende began her writing career working as a journalist in Chile. In 1973, a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Chilean government, including the president, who was a cousin of Allende's.

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