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 Vida

outcasting from society also aids in their murderous temperament. Each character finds

within Frankenstein's creation. The monster's grotesque outward appearance reflects

character's tragic formation. In much the same manner, one can see such development

to the side of her main character by including background history. In combining all of

opposite sex. The authors portraying the idea that "Perhaps a woman's love would

formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost

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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)