Themes and ideas to consider:

Magic, fortune-telling, clairvoyance, ESP, omens, and signs

Ghosts, spirits, hauntings, the afterlife, death

Mothers and daughters

Love…versus revenge…versus responsibility to family…at all costs…

The roles of men vs. the roles of women

The use of violence to achieve one’s goals…Is it ever necessary?

Revolutions…political and otherwise

Socialism, Communism, other –isms

Curses…and their meanings, real and symbolic

Social classes & equality

The character of Tránsito Soto

 

 
The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende