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Here are the questions for this Friday/Next Tuesday's Socratic Seminar:
1. What is the symbolic significance of Barrabas and his death? How does he manifest Allende's intentions in the novel?
2. How is Alba an example of hybridity? Explain.
3. How does the situation of Clara's death create a problematic binary or conflict?
4. What's significant about Allende's description of the house in ch. 10?
5. Why do we get a sense of the absurd surrounding Nicolas and the protests?
6. Why can't "marxism succeed" in this country (ch. 10)?
7. Does Allende shift one's perception of prostitution? How so?
8. Why is ch. 11 called "The Awakening"?
9. Describe the propaganda encountered in this chapter; what are these images attempting to convey?
