In this exercise from **”House Taken Over”** by Julio Cortázar, we have to briefly discuss the house in which the narrator and his sister live.

The narrator describes the house as **a large, spacious place filled with memories of parents and grandparents**. It was also very **”hollow” and “silent”** because only two people lived there although the ancestral house was capable of accommodating many more people.

The farms.

Doing housework and knitting.

To live in the other section.

Please see answer below.

Irene and the narrator are forced to leave the house once their section of the home has been taken over. Irene’s yarn is left behind and she gives up knitting. The narrator decides to lock up the house and throw the key into the sewer, so that not even a robber would have to enter the taken over house. Irene and the narrator leave their home and go off into the street.

See sample answer below.

A man and his sister, Irene, take up residence in an empty house, passing the time with cleaning, knitting, and reading books. After a break in by, they are forced to section off part of the house, where the narrator left his books. For a time, they go back to their normal routine, until their smaller section of the house is compromised, forcing them onto the street. The narrator throws the house key into the sewer so no one can enter.