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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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Visual vocabulary for Un viejo que leía novelas de amor: tigrilla, canoa, muelle, lupa, and escopeta.

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  • Slide: 1
  • Tigrilla
  • Female ocelot: the female of the tigrillo, a wild cat of the American tropics. In the novel, the tigrilla attacks the men of the region to avenge her cubs.
  • Slide: 2
  • Canoa
  • Canoe: a small, narrow boat moved with paddles. The Shuar bring the gringo's body to the dock in a canoa.
  • Slide: 3
  • Muelle
  • Dock: a place on the riverbank where boats tie up. The dentist treats his patients on the muelle in El Idilio.
  • Slide: 4
  • Lupa
  • Magnifying glass: a lens that makes things look bigger. Antonio José reads his romance novels slowly with a lupa.
  • Slide: 5
  • Escopeta
  • Shotgun: a long-barreled firearm used for hunting. The old man takes his escopeta into the jungle to hunt the ocelot.