Analysis Of Isabel Alland Of Clay Are We Created
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In Isabel Allende's story, ¨And of Clay Are We Created¨, she highlights the fact that many people often attempt to disassociate with tragedies in order to push aside their own shock and horror. Rolf creates an emotional barrier so that he can maintain internal stability while regularly reporting on miserable events. He constructs the illusion that he is physically separated from the events around him through his camera lens. Eva Luna, Rolf Carlee's lover, saw this concept demonstrated in him: “[The] fictive distance seemed to protect him from his own emotions” (Allende 321). But this coping mechanism crumbles after he meets Azucena, and no longer is using his camera to broadcast footage. Being forced to talk to her face to face, instead of