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A 5 page paper which compares the
themes of Jose Donoso’s “El Lugar Sin Limites” and Juan Rulfo’s “Pedro Paramo.” No
additional sources cited.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RArulfo1.rtf
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deal of powerful depictions of the search for identity in a rich and colorful culture. They are Latin American novels which offer us intriguing and mesmerizing characters. In the following
paper we present an independent examination of each story and then provide a brief comparison and contrast of the two. El Lugar Sin Limites Jos? Donosos "El lugar
sin l?mites" is a story of a town in Chile, a small town. The story is comprised of internal monologues, third person narratives, and a shift between past and present.
The story involves the character of Manuel Gonz?lez Astica who is a transvestite dancer. He/She wants to find identity as "the great Manuela" within the town and is constantly repeating
the same dance, over and over, in a search for identity. The character of Manuel Gonz?lez Astica, or la Manuela, performs as a gypsy who wears a frayed and faded
dress. We watch as Manuel tries to find this identity in a town that is dying. The people of the town are leaving in order to find a better
economic future for themselves. Yet, Manuel continues to search for the dream, the identity while everything around him/her dies or leaves. La Manuela stays in the brothel where he/she lives,
determined to find identity. La Manuela lives there with her daughter la Japonesita. We see a powerful sense of hope, as well as ignorance, as Manuel searches for identity in
a town that dies. We see hope dwindling as one last chance seems to arrive. This last hope comes in the guise of Pancho Vega, who is a powerful
and masculine macho type. He is a truck driver who la Manuela thinks may save her/him. However, in the character of Pancho we have a very homophobic man who, when
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