Un viejo que leía novelas de amor - Flashbacks Example
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Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño reads love novels in a village in the Ecuadorian Amazon until an ocelot starts to attack. Lesson plans, templates and 10 activities for analyzing Luis Sepúlveda's novel.
Storyboard Description
Flashbacks in Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda: present moments paired with Antonio José's memories.
Storyboard Text
- Slide: 1
- Present
- Alone in his hut at night, the old man thinks about his life before El Idilio.
- Slide: 2
- Present
- On the dock, Antonio José reads the gringo's wounds and knows at once that an ocelot killed him.
- Slide: 3
- Present
- In his hut, the old man slowly reads a romance novel with his magnifying glass.
- Slide: 4
- Flashback: The Wedding
- Antonio José and Dolores marry very young in San Luis. Having no children, and the gossip that follows, push them to leave the highlands.
- Slide: 5
- Flashback: Life with the Shuar
- The Shuar teach him to survive in the jungle. This explains how the old man can read an animal's tracks and wounds.
- Slide: 6
- Flashback: Discovering Reading
- In old age, he discovers he can read and finds the romance novels that stay with him to the end.