The madrina also in her ways shows that she loves Eva, she provides whatever she can for the little orphan and teachers what she knows to be valuable and genuine in life.

Even after her mother’s deaths, he is not sad because of the love she is sure her mother felt for her. Love is also seen between Eva and her mother, from all the memories she has of her mother she remembers that her mother loved her deeply. 6) And later gives birth to Eva naming her after an Indian tribe of the moon, Luna. They fall in love, and he gets better to form his sickness, sadly Eva Luna is conceived on the death bed of her father, Consuelo is left with happy memories of the man she loved, “Consuelo was seduced by the idea of being born in the midst of all that fear, in spite of the rumor that babies born during that period were abominations and would remain so years after the comet had faded from sight as a ball of ice and stellar dust.”(Chapter One, p. This happens when he is bitten by a snake, and she decided despite it being against the rule of the professor’s house to help him. Eva Luna tells her story interweaving it with the stories with others stories and the broader geopolitical changes that occurred during the period of the 1950s to the 1980s.ĭespite the hard life that Eva leads, the novel has some current of love throughout, at the beginning of the both love is seen as Consuelo, Eva’s mother falls in love with the Indian help. The country described in the novel might be Cuba, due to the similarity or even Venezuela.

The book depicts Eva Luna who tells the story as the main protagonist, an orphan who grows up in the South America. The theme of love is quite evident in the stories, but there is also the economic inequity, sexuality, domestic violence, exploitation of women and family relationships. Evaluating the subject of love in The Stories of Eva Luna, published in 1990, the collection of short stories done by Isabella Allende captures the real happening of the lives of particular women, the key narrator is Eva Luna.

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