![]() Under heavy bombardment by fascist planes. ![]() The elderly, women and children evacuating Barcelona In addition, I am including a few photos I found that were taken during the war and its aftermath these are not illustrations from the book, but ones that interested me. In this post I want to explore the way that Allende uses food descriptions to highlight the experiences of her characters. These hardships are described through the lives of characters in A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende, which I reviewed in detail in my previous blog post here. ![]() ![]() They especially punished everyone in the Republican strongholds that were defending the legitimate government. During the Spanish Civil War in 1938, the fascists, illegitimately trying to overthrow the recently-elected government, made sure that everyone suffered from shortages of food and other goods. ![]()
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