Blood Wedding (Bodas de sangre) | Two Words (Dos Palabras) | Chac Mool | Mr. Taylor | The White Uniform (El delantal blanco) |
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Who are the Bridegroom and Leonardo?
These two characters die in a knife battle with each other.
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Who is a priest?
This person teaches Belisa how to read and write.
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What is to escape the control of the Chac Mool?
Filbert flees his home for this reason.
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Who is Mr. Taylor?
This character is the protagonist in Mr. Taylor?
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Who are the maid and the lady?
These are the two main characters of the play.
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What are themes?
Individual vs society, death, and revenge are all ________________ in Blood Wedding.
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What is write a speech?
The Colonel abducts Belisa and asks her to do this for him.
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Who is Filbert?
This character goes from the being a fully capable adult to acting like a child by the end of the story.
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Who is an Indian?
This person gives Mr. Taylor his first shrunken head.
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What is class?
The lady thinks this is more important than money.
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What is her purity?
By holding her hand in an open flame, the Bride attempts to prove this.
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What are two words?
After the Colonel pays Belisa for her services, Belisa gives this as a bonus to the Colonel.
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What is drowning by the Chac Mool?
The cause of death of Filbert is this.
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What is the climax?
The shortage of heads that causes the murders to begin is the _______________ of the story. Hint (it is part of your plot diagram.)
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What is class (specifically, lower class)?
The white uniform symbolizes this.
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What are the silver wedding pins?
Desire is symbolized by this item worn by the Bride.
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What is language?
The Colonel is transformed from a military tyrant that everyone fears to a presidential candidate that everyone loves by the power of this.
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What is the basement?
After Filbert brought the Chac Mool home, he put it in this room.
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What is a theme?
American Imperialism is a ________________ of this story due to the fact that an American company took corporate control of the economy in a foreign country.
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What is to see the world from the maid's point of view?
The lady decides to exchange clothes with the maid for this reason.
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Who is the First Youth?
He compares chasing Leonard to hunting.
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What is the power of language?
The author, Isabel Allende, never reveals the two words in order to focus on this.
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What is indigenous Mexican art?
This is the type of art that Filbert collects.
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What is the fact that Mr. Taylor is killed, decapitated, and his head shrunk when he is the person that started the head shrinking business?
The ending of the story is ironic because of this.
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What is the fact that nobody could tell she was a lady when she had the maid's uniform on?
"I could live in a pigsty, but people would still know that I was someoneā is an ironic statement made by the lady for this reason.
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