Socio-Cultural+Background+and+Political+Influences



In an unnamed Latin American country. Latin America is a [|region] of the [|Americas] where [|Romance languages] (i.e., those derived from [|Latin]) – particularly [|Spanish] and [|Portuguese], and variably [|French] – are primarily spoken. **Source**: [|//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America//].
 * GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING**

The book starts at the turn of the century. There are references to the Jazz Age in Chapter 2: //'The upper class...stopped wearing corsets'// (p.67-p.68) and the World Wars
 * TIME PERIOD:**


 * OLIGARCHY

SOCIALISM

MARXISM

COMMUNISM

FASCISM

THE POET:** There are numerous references to the Poet- this epithet refers to Pablo Neruda, a prominent Latin American thinker and writer. For further information read the [|biographical note]. Neruda is an important public figure who received the Nobel Prize during Salvador Allende's Presidency (Salvador Allende was Isabel Allende's uncle). Allende uses the Poet's writing as an epigraph (short poem, inscritption at the beginning of a work).
 * Significance of the Epigraph:**