Essay Number 1 The short story If You Touched My Heart by Isabel Allende exhibits numerous instances of symbolism. I will be discussing the way I interpreted the following issues: plot, character, point of view, setting, and style. The title of the story relates in various ways to the story. By looking at the title you can get a good feel for what this short story is about. The word "plot" is defined as: the episodes …showed first 75 words of 1201 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1201 total…girl never got to shower or be clean, she was kind of just left there. It is not fair to not remember what it is like to see sunlight or to go outside. In this short story there are a lot of different things that come into play. The story was written very well. Although it is not moral it was very believable. The story was also very clear as to what was going on.