Lp 02.09 10 pwpt chile
Transcript of Lp 02.09 10 pwpt chile
The House of the Spirits: Chile
PowerPoint by Richard Lin
When and where was it written?
• Written in:– 1981– In Venezuela after Isabel
Allende and her family fled from their home in Chile
– Started off as a letter from Allende to her 100-year-old dying grandpa
Setting in the Novel• The setting (country) is unidentified– Allows readers to make references to 20th-
century Latin America– Historical events point to Chile
Historical Events• 1920s: Mine boom (a way for poor men
to make a fortune)• Wealthier woman embarked on charity
projects• “The big house on the
corner”/hacienda becomes representative of the upper class in the city
• 1939 Chillán Earthquake• 1950s: heavy internal migration
growing gap between the wealthy upper class and middle/lower class• 1960 Valdivia Earthquake• “The President” = Salvador Allende (in
office 1970-1973)
Politics
• UP UNTIL 1970S, DEMOCRATIC RULE IN CHILE• 1970: SOCIALIST* SALVADOR ALLENDE
BECOMES PRESIDENT
*A WAY OF ORGANIZING A SOCIETY IN WHICH MAJOR INDUSTRIES ARE OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT RATHER THAN BY INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE AND COMPANIES