Un viejo que leía novelas de amor - Flashbacks Example
Storyboard Beskrivning
Flashbacks in Un viejo que leía novelas de amor by Luis Sepúlveda: present moments paired with Antonio José's memories.
Storyboard Text
- Glida: 1
- Present
- Alone in his hut at night, the old man thinks about his life before El Idilio.
- Glida: 2
- Present
- On the dock, Antonio José reads the gringo's wounds and knows at once that an ocelot killed him.
- Glida: 3
- Present
- In his hut, the old man slowly reads a romance novel with his magnifying glass.
- Glida: 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.
- Glida: 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.
- Glida: 6
- Flashback: Discovering Reading
- In old age, he discovers he can read and finds the romance novels that stay with him to the end.