Saturday, May 31, 2008

Shadow of the wind p.75-100

After patching up things with his father, Sempere returned to find out more about Carax and Coulbert( the man who burned Carax's literary works). Without Clara as his distraction, Sempere prioritized most of his time to renew his friendship with Tomas, his best friend, and begin a new friendship with Fermin Romero de Torres, an ex CIA agent living in the streets homeless because of sabotage. A friendship with Torres established the addition of a professional, cheap, low-profiled, investigator to Sempere's team to excavate facts about his mysterious book's author. After assimilating Torres back to city life, Sempere began befriending his best friend again, Tomas. Tomas was an muscular built entrepreneur in mechanical devices, whom he first encounters in school ,during their fist-fight. The chunk ends in the discovery that Carax has several family and friends nearby, resulting in a new expedition to consult with each friend/family member; which may further complete the puzzle behind the absence and destruction of Carax's works .


When describing all the female characters, Sempere describes them in a deeper context. How does this correlate with The Great Gatsby? What may this reveal about Sempere?

2 comments:

ashley said...

His vivid descriptions of the female characters correlates to The Great Gatsby in that the narrator, Nick, also spoke of the females with deeper details. For example, earlier in the story when Daniel described Clara in white and went into detail about her face, i was reminded of when Nick described Jordan sitting at the sofa in white with a blank stare,

Manuel said...

i agree with *ash*; i beilieve this is based on the fact that the main character we follow in *The Shadow of the Wind* (pretend the title is italicized) is male and so is Nick in *The Great Gatsby* (again, just pretend; or at least pretend its underlined)