Elisa's Father Says That He Is Bothered by The Presence of Chinese People in The Neighborhood and Does Not Want Ricardo To Date Elisa
Elisa's Father Says That He Is Bothered by The Presence of Chinese People in The Neighborhood and Does Not Want Ricardo To Date Elisa
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One: The chapter tells about his family, which consists of his father (who smokes), his
younger sister (who has a good memory and is in her third year of high school) and she is innocent
fifth year high school girl. But her mother? She separated from her family when she divorced her father.
Carmen, that is, her sister, has a lesson from Garcias de la Vega (a writer who died at 33,
in love with Julieta Freve). She asks her sister to do the work because literature did not go.
with her.
Ricardo is Elisa Velasco's friend (the protagonist of the story) since first year 'D' until
fourth year when he proposed to be something more. Elisa said that Ricardo could be Rico or Cardo
Depending on his personality, he is nice when he behaves kindly and harsh when he is very abrasive.
Elisa goes to the library to help her sister with her report, while taking out a book that was
written by the author who asks Carmen to listen to a voice and see a grayish eye.
Milagros is Elisa's grandmother, and Elisa's father works as a seller of shoes and wool espadrilles.
Ricardo and Elisa were an explosive couple, Ricardo was tall and darker than white and Elisa was short and
white as paper. Elisa's father is completely xenophobic and racist, this is evident because the
Elisa's father says that he is bothered by the presence of Chinese people in the neighborhood and does not want Ricardo to date Elisa.
Three: Elisa, who lives on Toledo Street, encounters the ghost for the second time, who had a grey eye.
and the other a patch, he asked Elisa to help him remember who he was?
Four: When night falls, Elisa experiences something terrifying; she begins to hear a voice, which comes from
Outside, terrified yet intrigued at the same time, she wanders through the house in case someone else had.
heard. Her father replies that the voice came from Adelina, a beautiful woman consumed by the
alcohol, which started after their breakup.
Five: Elisa goes to Ricardo's place, but before arriving to see Ricardo, she stops by the hair salon of her mother.
Ricardo, Lupe. She asks Elisa to hold Ricardo back. When she arrives at Ricardo's room, he is there.
He tells her that his parents separated because his father disappeared one day without saying for how long.
how time would go and where. That explained his Thistle from yesterday.
Six: Elisa tells Carmen what happened, as Carmen only thinks it was a very bad excuse to
not doing the work. Then they both go to their mother's house which is 30 blocks away from hers. Her
mother, the banker, tells her about the boy she found handsome and Elisa about her insomnia. Her mother tells her
She confesses that the neighborhood where they all lived before she left was very outdated for her and that is why she...
was and Elisa assumes that she was referring to her father.
On the seventh day: Carmen gives Elisa Lope's books the next day, telling her that there was nothing.
paranormal, then he tells her that the books were on the shelf of the letter 'L' and not on the 'V'.
Felipe the librarian tells Elisa that the books of Lope de Vega were on that shelf because
Jesus, Carmen's language teacher, told her that Lope is his last name when in fact it was Vega.
the answer makes him suspect that Jesus had a near-ghost experience. Elisa decides to go with him.
a ghost that tells him he is cursed and that his curse consists of not knowing who he was. The last
The words he heard were 'It was Lope and Carpio.'
Eight: The youthful-looking ghost confirms to Elisa her theory that claimed that Jesus was one of his.
helpers. The ghost was someone very close to Lope, he asked Elisa if he could call her Belisa,
How does Lope call his mistress Elisa to pass through anonymity? He also asks her to come to the house.
from Lope de Vega to investigate.
Nine: Elisa believes that the ghost was Alfonso Contreras who wrote 'The King Without a Kingdom', companion.
of Lope. The ghost recounts that Lope and Don Miguel detested each other, and Lope's sons were Carlo and Félix. He
It wouldn't be that one. Julio, the most desired companion in Elisa's class, surprises her and invites her out.
cold site.
Ten: Elisa tells Carmen about the visit to Lope's house. That night she couldn't get a wink of sleep, she
I feel guilty for not having told the ghost in detail about Lope's house and having left.
With Julio. Ricardo went to look for Elisa to tell her something important, but she wasn't there.
Once: Elisa ignored seven calls from Ricardo, after leaving school she went with the ghost, she told him that
Marta Nevares was a blind and intelligent girl, she was one of Lope's loves that's why she didn't
she could be his beloved.
Sweet: When she got home, everyone looked at her with a grim face, she told them that she went through the 'crosswalk' and
that she was almost run over (the ghost of a woman saved her, but she didn't tell anyone). Juan, The
Terrible, he was Ricardo's teacher, the teacher was called that because for absurd reasons he let them go.
without recess.
Thirteen: Elisa tells the ghost about Lope's house and he tells her that he was the son of the maid (who
he took care of Nevares). At Ricardo's house, he tells him that someone is chasing him.
Fourteen: Carmen chooses to go with Lidia (her friend) to Lope's house, Elisa is surprised that Carmen...
If she liked literature, the ghost of the woman from the crosswalk tells Elisa that I warned them.
everyone.
Fifteen: Upon arriving near the church, he encounters another ghost (that of a deceased pope, who died
shot). The father tells him about the murders that occurred in that neighborhood, particularly that of a bishop.
called Galeote.
Sixteen: The killer of Bishop Galeote, Elisa started handing out leaflets to warn them to pass through
the zebra crossing. Sought information about the murder of the murderer.
Seventeen: Elisa along with Ricardo went in search of the bishop to tell him what happened, upon telling him.
Who was he, who killed him and why? This ghost faded away, then went to the crosswalk to hit the
pamphlets. He goes with the ghost who tells him that Lope had grayish hair, his mustache, and his goatee.
he also tells her that he was also a student at Elisa's school and was one of the many
Lope's assistants. Lope's daughter was the one the ghost had fallen in love with.
Eighteen: Ricardo tells Elisa that whoever was following him was looking for his father, one day he caught him and hurt him.
by the brute force that he applied. Where Jesus lived before there was a theater that burned down, that's why it is
that Jesus decided to abandon, he could not stand seeing ghosts of those who died burned.
The next day, the blonde who was chasing him caught him again, but Elisa kicked him in the groin and they got away.
running and they crossed paths with the ghost of the zebra crossing that allowed them to pass, then they heard a
dry blow, it was the blonde who was run over, the ghost greeted Elisa and faded away.
Nineteen: The name of the ghost's rival was Pérez de Montalbán, son of the writer L Lope; he
he considered the true writer, he is considered Felix's favorite. Juan Pérez hit him in the eye.
ghost, that's why he ended up one-eyed. In the library, he encounters Julio again.
Twenty: Every time Elisa isolates herself more and more in a bubble, she doesn’t care about going to classes, Julio, Ricardo, or her
family. The phantasmagorical world captured her, fortunately she was writing a written follow-up
about what she knew about the ghost, since when it was all over she would forget everything. Elisa had
fish and everyone is concerned about her. Elisa finds the name of the ghost's beloved. She
he has also clung to the ghost and did not want to lose it.
Twenty-one: Elisa falls ill and everyone fears that she will die, which is why she starts missing classes and asks for.
her sister who finds the name of the maid's son in order to be able to return to what she was before. Elisa
he crosses paths with Lina the crazy and sees her screaming, at that moment he realizes that Lina is shaking her arms
because she wanted to scare away the ghosts that torment her.
Twenty-two: The ghost tells Elisa that Antoñica broke her heart; one day she went to the theater that she loved so much.
I had longed to go, she had been accompanied by another man who whispered in her ear and to
The ghost was breaking his heart, he and she had not seen each other again at the well. One day Antoñica asks him to
a ghost that took her father out of the house to "perform a play", when she returned, she had escaped with
his beloved. And at that moment, Lope was going through the loss of his youngest son and wife.
she went blind and died.
Lope fell gravely ill and before dying cursed the ghost, condemning it for having taken him away from his ...
daughter. And for this, the ghost was thrown out of its home where it used to take refuge in the library.
Twenty-three: Carmen got the name of the ghost Lorenzo, who loved Antoñica, who flees with
Cristóbal. He also tells him that she died in her house waiting for Lorenzo, her spirit remained.
locked in the mirror of her room in Lope's house, she asks him to bring Lorenzo with her
to forgive oneself.
Twenty-four: The only way to find out how to get Elisa to gather both ghosts is to go
with a fortune teller. Morgana, the healer, will give them a couple of black candles for 20 pesos each to be
Elisa the mediator of ghosts.
Twenty-five: The ritual fails and Elisa is forced to talk to Lina, the ghost asks her to steal the
mirror.
Twenty-six: Lina tells Elisa that she must take Lorenzo to the mirror in Lope's house.
the body of a person who creates it and that person must keep their eyes closed until they reach the front
from the mirror. Lina torments herself voluntarily (she does not want to stop seeing her deceased parents).
Twenty-seven: Ricardo told Elisa that his father left a club and saw a murder and for being a witness he
I had to hide because the one who killed the murdered was going to kill him. Luckily the blonde when he went
he was run over and died.
Ricardo was the chosen one to take Lorenzo with Antoñica, Carmen after approving Lope's work not
it was important.
Veintocho: Elisa guides Ricardo with Lorenzo's body to Lope's house, passing by the well.
where Lorenzo and Antoñica crossed paths, Elisa kissed Ricardo with Lorenzo near the well. And to the
to meet again Lorenzo and Antoñica both faded away and Elisa never heard from them again. Luckily she
he was able to finish writing everything related to the ghostly world.