The short story Two Words by Isabel Allende is a tale about a girl who went by the name of Belisa Crepusculario. She had extreme desire to be the best at selling words, since the first time she saw words in the sports section of the newspaper. Belisa learned to read from a priest for 20 pesos and read the dictionary until she knew it cold. She went from the top of blistering cold mountains to scorching hot coasts selling her words in markets and fairs. Belisas words became popular fast and everyone knew who she was. People waited for her from year to year to hear her words.The main focus in this story is on the two words that she said to El Mulato that cursed him. This shows that you cant be so quick to judge someone. The conflict in the story is man vs. man because it is generally a battle between Belisa and El Mulato and in the end Belisa won the battle by cursing El Mulato making him unable to run for president.This short story Two Words is written in an omniscient narrative point of view, in other words a person is telling a story about something that happened to someone else. The main character in this short story is Belisa Crepusculario. Belisa is a round character because in the beginning of the story Belisa was a poor nobody. She was born into a poor family until she decided to set out across the plains toward the sea. When she made it across she found on the ground a newspaper and decided that she wanted to sell words, which changed her entire life. She later became known to everyone she became the best there is at her job in selling words. I believe that the author tries to lead the reader in to sympathizing for the people when the author wrote, The rebels swept into town like a stampeding herd. Chickens took wing, dogs ran for their lives, women and children scurried out of sight, until the only living soul left in the market was Belisa Crepusculario. Because this quote from the story shows how everyones scared of both the ...
