House Of Spirits

The House of Spirits", by Isabel Allende is a very interesting book. It has so many different ways to look at it. While one person thinks it is all about relationships, another might think that its all about respecting life and living it to the fullest. I personally cannot pick just one topic to explain and understand this book. "The House of Spirits" is a book that will take you through many views of life.

Carlyn Pinet asks, "What texts do we abandon, then, in Ð''growing-up'? (Pinet165)" We often think of growing up as having to say "good-bye" to childhood, but really no one every really says "good-bye" to their childhood. We will always have a little bit of childhood in us. We grow out of the ways of life we lived then have changed entirely but not as to where we have nothing left. We have grown more in what we believe, what we live for, what we think about. We tend to think that if we just save this one little keepsake then we will stay in our childhood forever, but to tell the truth even without that little keepsake we will always have it.

"Woman is the source of positive action, but man thinks it is man," (Swanson118). Men think that the world revolves around them. They feel as though they should control us, which I agree that God created women for men to have power over women, but in the long term women have a lot more say in a lot of stuff. Women think of everything positively because we feel as though it will take us further in life, which sometimes it does. A positive attitude will win more votes than a negative attitude. Men tend to have more negative responses in life. They feel as though everything has to be done right the first time and if its not then everything is wrong and they get frustrated. They start to think negatively before anything even gets started.

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Magic comes from this book.