Isabelle Allende Interviewed by Andrew Denton
Watch the interview and respond to the following:
How has the author suffered in her life?
Isabelle has suffered through the painful process of losing everything dear to her; her house, her family, her in laws, her dog and most significantly her country (exiled) - where she felt completely at ease and understood every aspect of her culture. She later came to the conclusion that she and her husband no longer had anything in common and so they both came to a mutual agreement as to how their lives would be separated as opposed to involving a layer etc. All of the above aside, the death of Isabells daughter, Paula
How has she coped with the pain and suffering?
She wrote a book whilst she was in exile as an attempt to recover what she had lost. When her daughter passed away, that same night was her grandchild born. She came to the conclusion that life and death is much the same, 'transitioning into a threshold...another world'.
How has she benefited from the pain and suffering?
When her daughter died- she had lost the fear of death. When her grandchild was born- she lost the fear of life.
Is pain and suffering always a bad thing? Explain.
Isabelles desire to pass on what she had learnt to her daughter Paula was unfulfilled due to her death. She then explains that she is always looking out for young women and in a sense adopts them as her daughters to pass on the knowledge and resources that she has. She says, "so i have these other daughters, that are not blood-related, but the daughters of my soul'.
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