make full use of the limited space within her short story. By using strong imagery,

providing a background, providing believable human actions, and examining justice, M.

Allende creates a piece readers can understand to the point of empathy. Because her

short story examines human behavior in respect to passions, justice, and emotion (love)

in a plausible manner one can find close similarities between her work and that of Mary

The author makes use of imagery to embellish not only upon her environment, but

also her characters. M. Allende presents the ideas of corruption, innocence, and

strictness simply through well-selected adjectives that lend eloquently to the

descriptions of her characters. The strait laced judge being "...dressed formally in black

... and his boots always shone with bees wax " (Allende, 422). One can infer by details

such as those that that particular individual appreciates formality, and considering his

desert location, a strict adherence to it. The author also uses images of deformity

demonstrate the corruption of her main character, Nicholas Vidal; by providing him wi

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the souls of their monsters to the hardness of iron (Allende, 423). In each case this

work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black

Another point worth examining in these stories stems from the authors' use of

Allende's 1944 piece she allows the feminine character, although weak and victimized,

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