Isabel Allende Research Paper

Isabel Allende has faced some challenges in her lifetime.

On August 2, 1942, Isabel Allende was born to Tomás Allende Pesce de Bilbaire and Francisca Llona Barros in Lima, Peru. She is the goddaughter of Salvador Allende, her father’s cousin. Isabel Allende has two brothers, Pancho and Juan Allende (“Isabel Allende Biography”). Allende’s parent divorced when she was two years old. Allende’s family moved to Santiago, Chile, the home of her grandparents. Allende would spend her time in the library in her grandparents’ home which became her passion for the written words (Diamond). Allende’s mother remarried to a diplomat, Ramón Huidobro. Allende’s family would move because of Ramón Huidobro post being changed (“Isabel Allende Biography”). When Allende was six years old, she was expelled for “perversion” from German Ursuline nuns. Because she was expelled, Allende went to an English school called Dunalastair. When her stepfather was appointed a secretary of the embassy in Bolivia, Allende went to a coeducational American school. At the age 15, Allende moved back to her grandparent in Chile. Allende first job was a

Allende wrote for women’s magazine called Paula, and edited children’s magazine called Mampato. While doing that, she experimented with writing short stories and producing plays. Allende had gotten married in 1962 (“Isabel Allende Biography) to an engineer, Miguel Frías (Diamond). They had two children together, Paula who was born in 1953, and Nicolas who was born in 1966 (“Isabel Allende Biography). On September 11, 1973, Allende godfather, Salvador Allende, was killed (Wood). Her godfather was the first socialist President in Chile. It was an assassination from General Augusto Pinochet, which later ruled as a suicide. Because that had happened, Allende’s family fled the country to Venezuela in 1975 and stayed for 13 years (“Isabel Allende