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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts"
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts"
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts"
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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts"

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    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts", 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 dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781410393418
    A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts"

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      A Study Guide for Isabel Allende's "City of the Beasts" - Gale

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      City of the Beasts

      Isabel Allende

      2002

      Introduction

      Isabel Allende is among the most prominent Latin American novelists and is often cited as an exponent of the style of magic realism. Her 2002 novel, City of the Beasts, marked a departure for her, a young-adult novel. The novel addresses concerns about the exploitation of the Amazon basin and the rain forest fueled by political corruption and threats to indigenous people. The teenage American hero on a quest to find a cure for his mother's cancer enters a mystical world of ancient mythology through initiation in the tribe of the People of the Mist.

      Author Biography

      Allende was born on August 2, 1942, in Lima, Peru, into an aristocratic Chilean family. At the time of her birth, her father, Tomás, was an official at the Chilean embassy. In 1945, he disappeared, abandoning his family. Allende was raised by her mother, Francisca, in her grandparents' house in Santiago, Chile. In 1958, Francisca married another diplomat, Ramón Huidobro. In her culture and class during the 1950s, no thought was given to Allende's attending university. She married Miguel Frías, an engineer, in 1962. Their daughter, Paula, was born the next year, and their son, Nicolás, in 1966. Allende worked at various jobs, including secretary in a United Nations office, journalist for magazines and television, and even briefly as a showgirl. She was also hired to translate English romance novels into Spanish, but she was fired because she would rewrite them to make the heroines more independent.

      Allende's first cousin once removed was Salvador Allende, the leader of the Chilean Socialist Party, who was elected president of Chile in 1970. On September 11, 1973, he was deposed in a fascist coup led by the minister of defense, Augusto Pinochet, and backed by the US Central Intelligence Agency. Allende killed himself as Pinochet's forces assaulted the presidential residence with tanks. Pinochet murdered thousands of his political opponents, and Allende helped to smuggle many people under threat out of the country before she and her family fled to Venezuela.

      In Venezuela, Allende continued to work as a journalist. On January 8, 1981, she learned that her ninety-nine-year-old grandfather (still in Chile) was on his deathbed, and she began to write him a letter. It eventually became the novel The House of the Spirits (published in 1982). This novel, which became an international best seller, was based on the history of Allende's family and the events of the Pinochet coup. Afterward, Allende made it a point to start writing each of her novels on January 8.

      Allende and Frías divorced in 1987. Allende married the American lawyer William Gordon, whom she met on a book tour, in 1988 and moved to the United States. Paula died in 1992 after a long coma due to the disease porphyria. Allende's memoir of this period, Paula (1994), which has features of a novel, is considered one of her most important works. Allende's literary career was highly successful (she sold sixty-five million

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