Discovery
... ¡¨ This can be conveyed in Isabel Allende¡¦s biography, ¡¥Paula¡¦ through the dominant notion of self-discovery. ... These can all relate to how discovery determines the way we live our life. Throughout ¡¥Paula¡¦, Allende repeatedly discovers that adversity often acts as a catalyst for self-discovery. ... But other forms of adversity are present, including a mother giving birth to her child, this also act as powerful catalysts of discovery. ... There is very little presence of paragraphs and most sentences are long and intricate which evokes a sense of reflection and complex discovery in Allende as well as well as the responder. Using metaphors such as ¡§opening my abdomen o bring you into the world¡¨ are very effective as the ¡§opening¡¨ suggest the ignition of a journey of discovery when one gives birth to a child. ... Using dashes and commas suggests emphatic pauses to emphasise the self-discovery of her initiation into a new realm of motherhood that Allende makes: ¡§With a primeval sob, I felt in the core of my being the sacred experience of birth- the effort, the pain, the pain- and gratefully¡K¡¨ Similarly in the related text, ¡§Woman to Child¡¦, the composer makes use of metaphors to effectively evoke a sense of connection between a mother and her child which is discovered at child birth: ¡§I am the earth, I am the root, I am the stem that fed the fruit. ... Where adversity through the concept of Childbirth is a positive approach upon discovery, this is much symbolic of our life today. ... ¡§I have lover he longer than anyone in my lifetime¡K¡¨ With each sentence beginning with ¡¥I¡¦ throughout both texts emphasises on self-discovery as the overall tone of each text.