In the creation of her novel, "The House of the Spirits-, author Isabel Allende uses a literary technique called magic realism'. ... Many human characteristics are clearly evident in "The House of the Spirits-, and the use, or the lack of, magic realism, is important in highlighting each characteristic. ... Within "The House of the Spirits-, these are important in the way the fantasies are used to emotional engage the reader. ... The house's linkage with Clara becomes most apparent when, after Clara's death, all of these magical links and spirits fade from the big house o...

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People around the world are asking the same question to each other, "Do ghosts and spirits really haunt houses and locations in our world today?" ... There are many people think ghosts do haunt houses, places, and personal experiences. ... After I did some of the research, I have learned that ghosts and spirits truly can haunt houses, but many experts believe ghosts and spirits only appears when they have some special meaning to them whether it is their death place or an old place they used to live in. ... The claims are worthy of being believed in ghosts and spirits because many people have f...

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The House of the Spirits In the novel, The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende shows how many things throughout the story that repeats itself. Things such as Esteban's sexual need, the number of people kept in the book, the genealogical order and how Clara's innocent appearance continues and...

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In Isabel Allende's novel, The House of the Spirits, the important event of Clara Trueba's death serves as a structural division in the plot. ... Clara's death also transformed the rebellious nation's political system, the lives of the different family members, and even the spirits in the house; from the translucent images and surreal tone, before Clara's death, to absolute realism of panic and chaos after her death. Through Allende's tone and diction, the reader is aided in realizing a shift in the plot, "Alba knew that her grandmother was the soul of the b...

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Ferula from the novel The House Of Spirits is a person, who is hurt more than helped by the Catholic Church, One of the beliefs of the Catholic Church is that in order to live in the paradise of heaven, you must first suffer the cruelty and sacrifice on earth. ... Feurla from the novel The House of Spirits is hurt more than helped by the Catholic church, for the following reasons: the church made her live a life of sacrifice and repenting, they filled her life with the fear of hell and they made her live a miserable life filled with guilt....

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The House of the Spirits Although throughout most of his time in the novel "The House of the Spirits", written by Isabel Allende, Esteban Trueba acts as selfish person who for the most part has no respect for people's lives. ...

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Isabel Allende, in The House of the Spirits, uses this style of writing to outline Chile's tumultuous past as well as to provide her own social commentary on the current state of society. ... Reading The House of the Spirits one can see that more and more problems seem to accumulate over time, and the quality of life never really improves. ... The House of the Spirits provides new perspectives on the way we view progress, especially in its relationship to technology and modernization. ...

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Sherri Higgins is a researcher on ghosts and spirits. ... The house was built in the 1790's. One ghost was seen when a guest of the house was walking to breakfast and asked the house owner's if the "other guest" was coming down to eat. ... The story goes that Sara Winchester, the wife of the inventor of Winchester guns, had to build a house big enough to house every person killed by this gun. The house had stairs and doorways that led to no where. ...

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In "The House With Nobody In It" the author talks about a sad broken down old house that no one loves, lives in, or takes care of. ... The speaker talks about walking to Suffern along the Erie track and how every time they walk they pass by the old house. ... He says "I never have seen a haunted house, but I hear there are such things; That they hold the talk of spirits, their mirth and sorrowings", to set a sort of scary, dark, tragic tone. ... In the line "Yet it hurts me to look at the crumbling roof and the shutters fallen apart, For I can't help thinking the poor old house is a ho...

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Women of Spirit: Comparison of the way women influence men in The House of the Spirits and This Earth of Mankind What exactly is power? ... The House of the Spirits 1. ... The House of the Spirits 1. ... The House of the spirits 1. ... The House of the Spirits. ...

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Isabel Allende uses Clara Trueba's character in The House of the Spirits to create a structural split, or a division in the plot. ... These shifting factors in the novel can be conveyed to the reader by Allende's diction and tone: Alba knew that her grandmother was the soul of the big house on the corner everybody else learned it later, when Clara died and the house lost its flowers, its nomadic friends, and its playful spirits and entered into an era of decline (p283). ... The painting captures the magic and the spirits of the house, especially with Clara, floating and hovering...

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Both men and women can be summoned in this way by the spirits to be shamans. ... According to the Hmong belief, spirits reside in the sky, and the shaman can climb a ladder to the heavens on his magical horse and contact the spirits there. ... To remove bad spirits they sweep their house by cleaning the house and getting rid of all the dust, dirt and soot. All together they are getting rid of the bad spirits from the house (Lee, N.). ... Their spirits are to go to a world where there ancestors are. ...

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On the journey home, the men sing the song of the paddle to protect them from the forest's spirits. ... The palms (like the arms of the human) are used in the construction of houses and the core (inner flesh) provides more than 90% of the Asmat diet. ... There is pressure for the men to drive the spirits from the village during their final dance. ... Furthermore in 1963 they burned festival houses and other significant cultural and religious items and dancing and drumming were forbidden. ... Their trees are cut down with chainsaws and as the trees fall, so fall the tree spirits. ...

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English Honors Philip Rosenberg Reading Journal October 24th, 2002 Chile and The House of the Spirits During the early 20th century Chile was separated into a higher class and a lower class without much in between. ... These historical events are mirrored in the novel The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende through the Trueba Families triumphs, afflictions, and day to day life. The major characters in The House of the Spirits come from two opposing classes, the aristocracy and the peasants. ... Simply by making class struggle a major theme of th...

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The House of the Spirits, loosely based on Allende's own life story, is a complex interweaving of multiple view points of the Trueba family, led by Esteban Trueba, and supported by Clara, his wife, their daughter Blanca, twin sons, Nicolas and Jaime, and Blanca's lovechild, Alba. ... The term magical realism, itself, originates from the pen of German critic, Franz Roh, in 1925, and was used to describe a group of Post Expressionist artists, but later delved into describing a Latin American literary genre popularized from after World War II, to the beginnings of the 1980s, around th...

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As each person who was prosecuted of witchery, the girls defended themselves by testifying that they (the one accused) would come into each of the girl's rooms at night and send spirits from the devil to touch them at night. ... On the first day, Abigail mentioned Elizabeth Proctor as having unusual things in her house such as, "poppets." ... Elizabeth goes with the police in the precaution that she might be convicted with the findings of the poppet in the house. ... Then, Abigail decides to make it seem as if Mary Warren talks to the devil by putting spirits on Abigail. ... Mary Warren u...

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He had a vision in which "white spirits and black spirits engaged in battle, and the sun was darkened - the thunder rolled in the heavens, and blood flowed in streams . . ." ... Going from one house to another, killing every woman, man and child. And that is just what they did, starting with his Master's house. ... He reveals how the spirits spoke to him and how he saw signs from heaven to rise up and insurrect. ...

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The house in Cloudstreet is deeply symbolic. ... A lady who deemed herself the "Daisy Bates of the city" first owned the house. ... In this case, the house as a whole, and the aboriginal man are used a symbol to prove this. ... Besides this, the fact that "The spirits on the wall are fading, fading, finally being forced on their way to oblivion" at Wax Harry's birth shows that the familial bonds that are now made concrete have exorcised the dark spirits of the house. ... The house "breathes its first painless breath in half a century" and the room "sighs" in apparent relief as the union b...

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The idea of family being the ultimate in life as apposed to a new car or house, a pretentious materialistic value, furthers the acceptance of the working class and their values. ... However, taking Winton's life experiences into consideration "My grandmother was a powerful matriarch who ran the family, a shop- can give us a strong reason to believe that Winton did not experience a house bound by Patriarchal values. ...

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"Why Women are very important in the novels The House of the Spirits and A Chronicle of a death foretold" Throughout history man was, and still sometimes is, thought to be the stronger sex, both physically and emotionally, because men seem to be the decision makers and seem to be doing everything by themselves. ... Both "a Chronicle of a death foretold" and "The House of the Spirits" have men as their most apparent decision makers and noticeable main characters, but behind the scenes women affect and influence the men greatly. ... Angela Vicario from "A Chronicle of a Death Foretold", and C...

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It is "the belief that nature is alive with spirits that have feelings and can be communicated with". These spirits are able to help or harm, and an animist believes that therefore they should worship these spirits. ... The High God is less important than other spirits in African and American religions. ... Important or less important issues are the work of the spirits or ancestors. ... The Native Americans were afraid of the dead because they feared that they would stay around the house, cause bad dreams, and even take its former family or friends. ...

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I want my family and friends to learn and understand that nobody should have the power to bring their spirits down by making them feel like they are worthless, like my half-sister did to me. ... She became extremely depressed, and felt she could no longer remain in her house. ... I also took it upon myself to start looking for a new house for her to move to. It just so happened that the house across the street from me was for rent, so I called the owner of the house and obtained all of the information for her. They ended up moving in, and needed someone to help them move and transport their ...

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The scientific definition of occultism: various theories, practices and rituals based on an alleged or esoteric knowledge of the world of spirits and unknown forces. ... I belive in these theories, I believe in the existence of ghosts and spirits lurking in old houses and castles. Some people deny it because they"re afraid that something bad could happen, other people are hunting ghosts, or are trying to contact spirits with Ouija boards and rituals. ...

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Some go to the extreme of actually paying people to rid there houses of ghosts; others to have there future told to them. ... There are no spirits that protect or that are out to get him. He wears no medallions to guard him against bad spirits. His world may seem much less interesting than those worlds full of spirits, influences, and mysterious physic powers, but to him the physical causes of things are every bit as interesting as the "Powers Beyond" are to the "Magical Freaks." ...

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This is a form of animism involving the worship of nature spirits such as sky, sea, jungle and earth and the belief of ghosts and of the soul. Amongst these beliefs there are also two rivers spirits "Oinan"(Mother of rivers) which is a good spirit and the "Kameinan"(Father's sister) which is considered an evil spirit. In their religion also non living object have spirits called "kina" that gives them life. Even if the sky spirits are the most prominent, there are no traces of hierarchy amongst these. ... They do this because in this way they think that the soul will reach the sky spir...

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