1. And of Clay Are We Created
UNIT 5 - FICTION
And of Clay Are We Created
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2. Isabel Allende Born in Lima, Peru (1942) Chilean American Writer
Magic Realism
<The House of the Spirits>
<Paula>

3. Author’s perspective
Is a unique blend of feelings, values, and beliefs that a writer brings to a subject;  the way an author looks at a topic or the ideas being described. 
“And of Clay Are We Created” contains echoes of Isabel Allende’s own life experiences as a former journalist and an exile from her native country.
ex) Isabel Allende’s journalistic experience is reflected in her descriptions of a disaster scene and her exploration of a reporter’s thoughts and feelings.

4. And of Clay Are We Created - Chracters
Narrator : Eva Luna, lover of Rolf Carlé Rolf Carlé : Austrian-born journalist : protagonist : determined Azucena : girl trapped in mud pit

5. And of Clay Are We Created – Conflicts
Man vs Nature
Man vs Himself

6. And of Clay Are We Created – Conflicts
Man vs Nature
Rolf Carlé had the advantage of the televisionhelicopter, which flew him over the avalanche
Rolf Carlé had a growth of beard, and dark circles beneath his eyes, he looked near exhaustion 
The spent the night talking, each in a stupor of exhaustion and hunger, and shaking with cold

7. And of Clay Are We Created – Conflicts
Man vs Himself
He could watch events without actually participating in themthe fictive distance seemed to protect him from his own emotions.
There in the hellhole of mud, it was impossible for Rolf to fleefrom himself and longer, and the visceral terror he had lived as a boy invaded him
Sorrow flooded through him, intact and precise, as if it had lainalways in his mind, waiting

8. And of Clay Are We Created – Summary
Carlé’s kept past is revealed with the development of his character in the conflicts presented
The purpose for his career was not to expose thetruth to the world, but to look for an alternativetruth in his mind