'House of Spirits – Epigraph by Pablo Neruda\r'

'How does the epigraph preserve to the greater message in the un white plagued? An epigraph is a quotation, phrase or motto at the runner of a piece of literary work, thus screen background forth a theme for the piece of literature. In this case, this epigraph gives the readers a piffling gist and theme of what to judge when they read the novel. â€Å"The House of Spirits” is a novel which was written by Isabel Allende. This story revolves around family feeling, principally around two upper-class families; the Del Valle and the Trueba family and was originally written in Spanish, then translated to many different languages, English being one.\r\nThe story is set in a Latin-Ameri potbelly country. The epigraph by Pablo Neruda has a much deeper heart which the reader has to implore. In a nut-shell, the epigraph talks virtually two involvements; life and finale. Pablo Neruda is Chilean by nationality, which may overly suggest that this ‘Latin country’ we thing the novel is set in, may very rise up be Chile. The first line asks a marvel which when thought about, not many people direct an answer to.\r\nTogether with the second line, we can polish to the novel because even though we may blow up and say we live a thousand years, the life-and-death events that define an individual’s life oblige place in the matter of just a few sidereal days and at the end of the day it is those events that decide the fate of a person’s life. We can connect this to the novel by using the example of Esteban Trueba and Clara, when after he hits her, she decides not to reversed to him, nor to use her maiden name and never to bust their wedding ring ever again.\r\nIt was that one second that sealed their fate, and their real personality was reflected. â€Å"For a week, or for several centuries? ”- this line makes us think, how one teeny contri justion to the world can change a person’s life. He will be remembered for years and years to come, just for that one small thing he may have contributed to the world, in a matter of minutes. The fourth line makes us reflect back on life.\r\nAll along, as individuals we have thought of death just ‘ mishap’ and getting over. Like an event. But this novel makes us thing otherwise. It portrays itself as a long process. Dona Ester is a very good example from the novel regarding this. Her life is already declining and in that location is nothing that she can do to change that fact. It is like she has already begun to die, a slow process, she is just counting her days till that ‘ spot’. We can also look at death in another way.\r\nIn a veritable situation, death may also mean not physically leaving the world or your venomous body, but killing something, leaving something behind. We can use the example of Esteban Trueba and Clara, as when he hits her and she decides not to converse with him anymore, it is the beginning of the â⠂¬Ëœdeath’ of their relationship. Another comment on the epigraph I would like to make is that everywhere, Pablo Neruda has used â€Å"he” and â€Å"man”, suggesting that at the time he wrote it, the lodge he was living in was a male-dominated society.\r\nThis is also reflected in the book as the inequality to women is intelligibly shown all through. Ironically, this poem has 5 lines and also there are 5 generations in one of the roughly important families in the book; the Del Valle family: grandmother, Nivea, Rosa, Clara, Blanca and Alba. This epigraph gives us a surface picture of what to expect in this novel, but as we have seen, if we go deeper to explore, there can be so many more meanings to it.\r\n'