Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Shadow of the Wind p.125-150

Sempere continues to interrogate Mr.Mollins and learns why Mr.Fortunys placed crucifixes around the house. He placed them all over because Fortuny believed that Julian was the offspring of sin; therefore, he was offspring to the devil. Later, Daniel confronts and converses with his best friends sister, Bea, whom he has grown to love passionately. When returning to the bookshop Fermin makes fun of Daniel and his weak 'game' he has with women. After enduring his mockery, Daniel reads Penelope's letter to Julian and finds out that she was from a very prestigious family, and loved Julian dearly. So, in hopes of conversing with Penelope to excavate more knowledge on Carax, Daniel travels to her home and ends up viewing an vacant/abandoned home. Like before with Mr.Fortuny's vacant house a caretaker/nosy neighbor was present and told Sempere that the family moved to start some sort of enterprise abroad.

What is the relevance of Penelope in the story? Why are all the people Carax become familiarized with either diseased or have migrated?

2 comments:

Manuel said...

Perhaps that is to make the story longer and more sinister and entertaining.

inubaby said...

maybe it's because those people were involved with carax that became hurt or had to move.