Las Medias Rojas – Flashcards
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Author
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Emilia Pardo Bazan
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Uncles name
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Clodio (actually her father)
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Main character
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Ildara
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What does Ildara have?
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Red stockings
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How did she buy red stockings
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Selling eggs and getting a loan from a middleman so that when she went to America she could pay him back, she did not know that red signified prostitution, she thought the redness represented hope
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What does her father think?
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That she is lying and got them from being a prostitute
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What is Ildaras cousins name?
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Mariola, she was scarred by her mother with a cooking utensil
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What does the father not want to do?
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Emigrate, he wanted to stay and force his daughter to as well
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What is Ildara like?
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Very beautiful, aspiring
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What did her father do?
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Beat her face, made her unable to see from one of her eyes, knocked out her teeth
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What does her father think?
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That she is vain, always worrying about her appearance and is a prostitute.
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Why didnt the father kill her?
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Because he needed someone to care after the land, and after him. He wanted to ruin her but not murder her.
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What happened to Ildara?
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She could not board the ship to the new land, they only wanted pretty girls with both eyes and all their teeth
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Year published
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Siglo 19
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Themes presented
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realism, determinismo social, oppression of women
