Monday, March 30, 2009

Ind. Reading- Prompt 17


Elements of a Story

Plot: Florentino falls in love with Fermina; Fermina goes away. She comes back and he wants to start their relationship back up again, but she lost interest in him by that time and revoked her promise to marry him. She then married a wealthy doctor. He spent most of his life trying to move on but couldn't. He loyally and patiently waited for the day that he could make his move and get her back. That day came when the doctor died; that was the beginning of the end of both Florentino and Fermina's lives.

Setting: small coastal town in South America from the late nineteeth century to the early 1930s

Main Characters: Florenitno Ariza, Fermina Daza, and Dr. Urbino

Symbols: love, passion, heartbreak, old age, decay, death,

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