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Within The House of the Spirits and The Story of Zahra, Isabel Allende and Hanan al-Shaykh establish setting through their use of point of view, narrative technique, and parallelism. Allende uses two different types of point of view to tell her story, first person and third person. They differ in the way she presents them because the first person point of view comes from Esteban Trueba, whose thoughts are directly from experiencing the story, whereas the third person point of view comes from an unknown source who has only read the story through journal entries. Al-Shaykh uses point of view differently because she shows multiple first person point of view. The change of point of view in literature, affects the way the reader can perceive the setting that the character is in. Allende and al-Shaykh use narrative technique to show that characters are all different in the way they describe a setting. The differences are seen by the reader through the feelings that the character......

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