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Leslie E. Aguilar Ramos

Coach Clark

World Cultures and Geography

9 June 2017

Death Conducts Growth

Death is inevitable in life. Its always present, it can bring people together and can also

tear them apart. In Isabel Allende And of Clay are we Created a journalist Rolf Carle is greatly

affected by a death of a dear one. The story takes place in Columbia where a natural disaster has

occurred and devastatingly affected the town. A volcano eruption has left a town vulnerable and

a young girl named Azucena stuck in clay. Rolf Carle was able to save the girl and grow close to

her over her recovery, yet she was unable to fully recover and passed away. Death is always

present in all situations and can affect every person in a negative or positive way. It can help

people understand death and make them grow as a person.

When an unfortunate event such as a natural disaster arises it unites a community that

was once distant. The volcano eruption united a town in an unexpected way. Strangers became

friends and grew to care deeply about each other. Such as Rolf Carle and Azucena who knew

nothing about each other were able to have such a great bond. Her death was sudden yet

predicted due to her long recovery. Where she was recovering, people of that town were bringing

necessities. Natural disasters encourage citizens to provide the little they have to those who have

less.

Death can have the ability to stimulate self-growth. Rolf Carle felt vulnerable and exposed

when experiencing grief. Azucena made him comprehend a certain emotion, love. Love, not

romantically but a love where he wished nothing but happiness in her life. He assured her that he

loved her more than he had ever loved anyone else. The love he felt towards her was greater than
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Leslie E. Aguilar Ramos

Coach Clark

World Cultures and Geography

9 June 2017

the love he felt for his mother or his sister or anyone he had ever met. Rolf Carles goal was to

make her feel loved because no one in her thirteen years had ever done so.

Death was able to see these moments where such emotions were expressed. It seemed as if

Death felt guilty yet proud for taking Azucena. Azucenas death was able to touch his heart in

ways no one else was able to do. Death, in the end, was able to see the bittersweet moments that

happen in events such as natural disasters. It was Allende's purpose to show a situation where

moments like these happen. Death is present in every situation and can notice the affects every

person, whether it may be positive or negative.

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Leslie E. Aguilar Ramos

Coach Clark

World Cultures and Geography

9 June 2017