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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.


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Un viejo que leía novelas de amor



Plot Diagram
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, the mayor and a settler set out with rifles into the jungle to hunt the ocelot, in a plot diagram storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Character Analysis
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man with a white beard, holds a book and a magnifying glass in his hut in a character analysis storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Themes, Symbols, and Motifs
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man with a white beard, proudly holds up a book in the village of El Idilio, in a themes, symbols, and motifs storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Literary Conflict
An ocelot leaps at Antonio José Bolívar Proaño as he stands with his rifle on a jungle riverbank, in a man vs. nature literary conflict storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Setting
A river winds through the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, with a toucan, a scarlet macaw and an ocelot on its banks, in a setting storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Character Transformation
Young Antonio José Bolívar Proaño and his wife Dolores stand in the green hills of the Andean highlands before leaving for the Amazon, in a character transformation storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Cause and Effect
An ocelot leaps across a jungle river at a frightened gringo hunter, one of the effects in a cause and effect storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Flashbacks
In a flashback, young Antonio José Bolívar Proaño stands with a Shuar man outside a thatched Shuar house in the jungle, in a flashbacks storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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The Shuar and the Jungle
A Shuar man and woman stand outside a large thatched Shuar house in the Amazon rainforest, in a geography and culture storyboard about the Shuar in Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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Visual Vocabulary
An ocelot, the tigrilla of the novel, sits on a path in the Amazon jungle, in a visual vocabulary storyboard for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor
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The setting of Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda: El Idilio, the Nangaritza River, the Ecuadorian Amazon, Shuar territory, San Luis, and Antonio José's hut.

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  • Slide: 1
  • El Idilio
  • A small, isolated village on the riverbank, home to settlers, gold prospectors, and a few Indigenous people. It has a dock, the mayor's house, and Antonio José's hut.
  • Slide: 2
  • The Nangaritza River
  • The village's only link to the rest of the country. Twice a year the boat Sucre comes up the river with the dentist and the novels.
  • Slide: 3
  • The Ecuadorian Amazon
  • Humid, rainy, and full of life and danger. For Antonio José and the Shuar it is a world with rules; for the mayor and the gringos, a hostile place to conquer.
  • Slide: 4
  • Shuar Territory
  • The lands where Antonio José lived with the Shuar and learned to hunt, fish, and survive. In the novel, it represents a way of life in balance with the jungle.
  • Slide: 5
  • San Luis
  • The highland village where Antonio José and Dolores were married. The highlands, with their closed society full of gossip, contrast with the jungle.
  • Slide: 6
  • Antonio José's Hut
  • His hut at the edge of El Idilio, where he reads his romance novels by the window, slowly, with a magnifying glass, away from the rest of the village.