Monday, February 16, 2015

Eva Luna

After two weeks of reading about Rolf, Eva, Mimi, Riad...etc I have fallen in love with the characters and just the over all ideas that are placed with in this book by Isabel Allende. As mentioned in class, the author always sticks strongly to reoccurring themes like some of the ones we listed in class; such as the purity of love. What Eva said at the end, it left my heart melting and just yearning for a story like hers.
         "I understood then why from the first I thought I had known him before. Quite simply, it all came down to the element fact that I had found my mate, after so many weary years searching for him" (306).
         Her words, in my mind, tie in with the thought of past lives like in the Indian epic of the Ramayana, or this wicked cool movie Cloud Atlas. In both, the same people (no matter what life it was in) fell in love with the same person. Maybe she possibly felt that she knew him because centuries ago that was the man she fell in love with in another life time. It kinda ties into the theme of spirituality and beliefs through out the book. Madrina would be the spiritual impact on Eva due to her younger years of living with that holy women. Either way, all I know is that I wish I could feel that strong of a personal connection with a person!
         "Or maybe that isn't how it happened. Perhaps we had the good fortune to stumble into an exceptional love, a love I did not have to invent, only clothe in all its glory so it could endure in memory" (307).
          We mentioned in class the theme of relationship shifts through out the book and the yearning of love/ attention. Over the years of the life of Eva we get to witness multiple occasion where she physical yearns love of not just sexual but also of love. The love towards her mother, Madrina, Mimi and her Abuela was that of the compassion you show toward family. While her love to Huberto Naranjo grew over time to the infatuation and belief that she loved him as she gave herself up sexually to him. But Naranjo rather love his this revolution that he was controlling as he tried to change the world for people like him.This is kind of like her love for Riad, for it started of fatherly but she became infactuated with the man that showed so much trust toward her, and allowed Eva in ways that he would usually consider forbidden due to his deformity. But yet pushed her away saying shes to young, and ends up with a 14 year old anyway, kinda peeved me but I knew Eva had better coming her way in the form of Rolf. I liked the fact that she allowed he love for Rolf grow in this unknown exceptional love that she never received from anyone else by the end of the book. I won't have wanted it to end any other way. The ending doesn't leave off on the wandering thought of what possibly happen to the characters, and whether they end up happy and better off. This last chapter made the connection of Rolf and Eva so strong and honestly in proved the power of love. It leaves of at the moment where we ended in the beginning of Rolf's story. Since the beginning I had a feeling it would end this way.

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