In that vast cemetery where the odor ofīased on what you have read so far, what do you think is the author’s purpose for writing this story?ĭeath was already attracting vultures from far away, and where the weeping of orphans and wails of the injured filled the air, the little girl obstinately clinging to life became the symbol of the unbearable image of the head budding like a black squash from the clay that there was no one who did not recognize her and 10
They discovered the girl’s head protruding from the mudpit, AĮyes wide open, calling soundlessly. In this story, the girl is called Azucena, and her rescuer is named Rolf Carlé. The media focused much attention on a thirteen-year-old girl trapped in the mud. The heat of the volcano melted sheets of ice, resulting in mudslides.
And of Clay Are We Created by Isabel Allende, translated by Margaret Sayers PedenīACKGROUND This selection by is fictional, but it is based on a real event.
