Marianela (Leer en español nivel 3)

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Summary: Wonderful Story
Review: I must admit that this book didn't pick my interest when I started reading it in My Spanish AP class in high school. Now after reading it I have to say that this book is wonderfully written and very educational.
Marianela is a girl who lives in The Mines of Socartes, she is the guide of a rich boy who suffers fom blindness Pablo. I loved Marianela's character since the first pages, she is so full of life, so innocent. All her life she lived out of the pity of others but it didn't matter to her. Pablo "said" he loved her and she lived in this illusion where she thought that she would finally be loved and not criticized by her looks.
Then, everything changed when Teodoro Golfin, a miracle doctor gave Pablo his sight. That's when everything changed. When Pablo saw what Marianela really looked like, he just started treating her horribly. Where did all his love go? I have to say that by the end of the book I hated Pablo with a passion. How can someone be so cynical as to tell a person how beautiful she is without really seeing the exterior appearance and then being disgusted by what he sees when he looks at how that person really looks? Sadly that's what happens with Pablo and it would have been better if he had stay blind.
This book bring some things that are really important. True beauty is on the inside, never judge someone by their exterior appearace because you might be surprised. True beauty is not something that you can see or touch, beauty has to be felt.
I highly recomend this book, it will touch your heart I promise

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Summary: Pablo y Nela: Un libro largo
Review: This book, about Pablo, the blind man who falls in love with his guide, Nela, embodies the frailty of appearance vs. reality. After reading this book, I am able to look at Nela and see an image of the modern woman. Despite the fact that it's over 100 yrs old, Marianela lives on today.

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Summary: La verdadera capacidad para ver, y para amar
Review: What is the actual implication of this fictitious work? Isn't there a serious, profound and truthful lessons in this love story so down-to-earth but at the same time so complex?

Marianela, a love story published in 1878 portrays a relation between a blind man and his guide-- not beautiful a woman, whom he imagine attractive. Loving without been loved she therefore worried that once the man recovers his eyesight realizes she is not as pretty as he imagines she is.

The author wisely crafts an interesting symbolism between the capacity to see, which is always spiritual and emotional, and on the other hand the human eyesight which can be inadequate, restrictive and misleading.

The implication that runs through the whole story is that adversity is a blessing is disguise, since blindness forces him to be humble enough to perceive the beauty she and other manifest. Once he recovers his eyesight and sees her for the first time with his human eyes, he rejects her.

Wasn't he in possession of real sight while blind than when he was able to recover his sight and to humanly see? Isn't Perez Galdos message, that the capacity to see and understand is mental, emotional and not necessarily physical?

Human eyesight, according to the author, is illusive while the capacity to see, understand and perceive emotionally is the right and legitimate vision. Finally I can say this classic must be understood as a lesson on the spiritual superiority over the evidence presented by the human senses.

This emotionally complex story has a symbolism, it will teach a lesson to whoever is receptive to its deeper meaning.