He rapes and tortures her, and she nearly dies. Suspense Alba's imprisonment and tortureįor one agonizing chapter, Alba is under Esteban García's control. The last sentence of Chapter 13, in which Alba realizes Esteban García has been waiting for her ever since she was a little girl, is so climactic it hurts. Things start to look very dark when the soldiers blindfold her, take her to prison, and deliver her into the hands of Esteban García, her grandfather's arch-nemesis. Climax Alba's arrest and deliverance into Esteban García's powerĪlba is arrested in the middle of the night by the secret police. Miguel and Pedro Tercero have to go into hiding, and Alba starts to help victims of the military persecution.
In Chapter 13, the military revolts and ousts the President, killing one of our favorite characters in the process (poor Jaime). Once again, we have characters on both sides of the conflict – Alba, Miguel, Jaime, and Pedro Tercero, for example, are elated by the Socialist victory, while Esteban hatches plots against the President with fellow conservatives. However, the Conservative Party enlists the help of foreign intelligence agencies and their own military in order to destabilize the new government. The Socialist candidate wins the Presidential election and the social reforms his party enacts promise to benefit the poor underclass.
Conflict Socialist Party comes to power conservatives conspire against themīy the twelfth chapter of the novel, the Socialist movement has gathered enough momentum to challenge the conservatives of the country. Characters like Pedro Tercero and Esteban García suffer oppression and marginalization at the hands of the wealthy elite.
Esteban Trueba, a member of the landowning class, makes his fortune while mistreating the poor tenants on his family estate. Initial Situation Conservative Party in powerįor the first ten or eleven chapters of the novel, the Conservative Party is the only show in town.
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