• Otavalenas-01
  • Cuba_March_2106_323
  • gdl-(8)
  • Slave_trade_boat_Brazilian_Museum_2017_5568
  • Machu_Picchu_March_2106_104
  • Beco_de_Batman_2017_5724
  • Brasil 2017-Cristo-Redentor-12
  • Brasil 2017-Escaderia Soberon-35
  • Brasil 2017-Favela-Rocina-33
  • Afro_Braziian_Religion_Brazilian_Museum_2017_5583
  • catedrallima
Otavalenas-011 Cuba_March_2106_3232 gdl-(8)3 Slave_trade_boat_Brazilian_Museum_2017_55684 Machu_Picchu_March_2106_1045 Beco_de_Batman_2017_57246 Brasil 2017-Cristo-Redentor-127 Brasil 2017-Escaderia Soberon-358 Brasil 2017-Favela-Rocina-339 Afro_Braziian_Religion_Brazilian_Museum_2017_558310 catedrallima11

Questions to analyze narrative texts

The form

  1. What is this novel or short story about?
  2. Is this an autobiographical text? If so, defend your answer.
  3. What is the chronology of the novel or short story?
  4. Whose story is it?
  5. What is the basic conflict?
  6. What are the characteristics of the narrative voice(s)?
  7. Who is the Focalizer (the eye who sees)?

The Content

  1. Why did the author write the novel or short story?
  2. What is the social-cultural-political or historical context of the novel or short story?
  3. How are sexual/gender roles assigned?
  4. How does the novel or short story deal with issues of nationalism and identity?
  5. Does the novel or short story subvert, revise questions or validate the official historical versions?
  6. What is the ideology of the text you read?
  7. What did you learn about Latin American society by reading this text?
  8. Compare or contrast the people and world portrayed in the reading with life in your own society
  9. Who is the "Other"?
  10. Why do we keep on reading the story?

Prof. John S. Brushwood designed this list. I have modified to fit this course goals and objectives. MM