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Un viejo que leía novelas de amor - Plot Diagram Example

Un viejo que leía novelas de amor - Plot Diagram Example

Storyboard Leírás

Plot diagram of Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda: exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

Storyboard Szöveg

  • Csúszik: 1
  • Exposition
  • In El Idilio, a village on the Nangaritza River in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the dentist arrives on the boat Sucre. Antonio José Bolívar Proaño waits for the romance novels he brings him.
  • Csúszik: 2
  • Conflict
  • Shuar men arrive by canoe with a gringo's body. The mayor, "the Slug," blames them, but Antonio José proves a female ocelot killed the gringo after he shot her cubs.
  • Csúszik: 3
  • Rising Action
  • The ocelot keeps attacking. The mayor organizes an expedition into the jungle and forces Antonio José to join it. They find more men killed by the animal.
  • Csúszik: 4
  • Climax
  • The mayor pays Antonio José to hunt the ocelot alone. The old man finds the wounded male and ends its suffering. Then the female begins to stalk him.
  • Csúszik: 5
  • Falling Action
  • After a tense night, the ocelot attacks and Antonio José kills her. He admires the animal and feels ashamed of what he has done.
  • Csúszik: 6
  • Resolution
  • He pushes the ocelot's body into the river and returns to his hut and his romance novels, which help him forget, for a while, the barbarity of men.