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