Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Aura

I honestly found the way Carlos Fuentes wrote this story, as in which person, was extremely interesting. By choosing to write it in the second person, he successfully breaks the "4th wall"
and brings the reader into the story. This technique actually made it more intense for me because
I felt more affected by the events happening in the story. It is also interesting that he somehow
manages to mesh the audience and the main protagonist into one being. It also adds the eerie,
creepy, confused feeling we , as readers, have of the situation, the house and the characters. If
he would have chosen to write this story in a less direct way, it would be easy for the reader to
be distant and unaffected by the events of the story.

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