I loved having Nina Scott join our class on friday, it was an amazing experience hearing what she had to say about the novel. Since she read it so many times in order to translate it perfectly, she picked up so many little details that tied into the plot. For example, Sab wrote Carlota's name in the cave because it was a place of total darkness/secrecy and being in love with your master's daughter was unspoken of. Just little things like that make the novel so interesting. I would personally not go into the translating business, but I totally respect Nina Scott for doing such an excellent job on an incredibly difficult profession.
I bet there could be an interesting essay topic on the characters of the novel, since the four main characters are very different from eachother. One could argue about the two bachelor choices for Carlota, Enrique or Sab, and give reasons for which one woulf be a better match for her (forget about the end of the novel when Carlota finds out about "the real" Enrique). Another topic could be about how Sab and Teresa play such a pivitol roll in the novel, even though they are not the loudest characters of the bunch. Also, there could definetly be an essay written about three different characteristics that Sab has and give examples of how he portrays them throughout the novel.
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I think the bachelor idea is a really cool topic. It'd almost be a like a game show, which would be totally rad. You could definitely come up with some cool things for this topic. What's is also good about this topic is that you could approach from a lot of different angles. You could trying matching up completely controversial characters like Teresa and Sab or Teresa and her dream husband Enrique.
But Carlota doesn't really have a choice, that's one of the keys to the whole thing. Carlota is very much a woman of her times. Probably having read too many fairy tales and French romance novels, she is expecting prince charming to come through the door, and when he doesn't she just throws the CHARACTER of prince charming over on to Enrique. Marrying Sab is out of the question for her, it would never even occur to her. You might explore how Avellaneda sets up and tears down the Romantic concept of ideal love. As Prof. Scott pointed out, the beautiful woman and the handsome man get married and live miserably ever after.
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