ICT Role in 21st Century Education & its Challenges.pptx
The shadow of the wind.pptx
1.
2. - Spanish novelist.
- born in 1964 and died in
2020 due to colon cancer.
- mostly known for his
novel The shadow of the
wind (2001)
He recieved many awards
for his work.
3. • The Princ of Mist (1993)
• The Midnight Palace (1994)
• The Watcher in the Shadows
(1995)
• Marina (1999)
• The Angel’s Game (2008)
• The prisoner of Heaven (2011)
• The Labyrinith of Spirits
(2017)
• The Rose of Gold (2012)
• Two - Minute Apocalypse
(2015)
4. Genre: novel, mystery, thriller,
gothic fiction and drama.
It took place in Barcelona, Spain.
It all happened between 1945
and 1966.
6. • Daniel’s father, Mr. Sempere, took Daniel to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where
Daniel picks up the book called The shadow of the wind for who nobody heard
about.
• Determined to find more about the author who’s name is Julian Carax, Daniel meets
many new poeple and that way he met his first crush Clara and she would break his
heart five years later..
• Time skips for two years and Daniel is now 18 and working with his father in his
bookstore and they found a new staff member Fermin who was tortured by inspector
Fumero.
• Daniel and Fermin become close friends and together they work to find out more
about the author. They found a woman called Nuria, a pope who’s childhood friend
with Carax and a nanny of Penelope, Carax’s lover, who tell them their stories about
Julian.
7. • They discovered the house where Penelope grew up. Also they discovered that
inspector Fumero is watching them.
• They came across new information about Julian’s life as a kid and about his tragic
love story with Penelope. They hid their relationship until Penelope’s mother found
them. After that Julian runs away to Paris with the help of his friend Miquel while
pregnant Penelope is locked in the room where she dies along with her child.
• Daniel also discovered that he likes his best friend’s sister Bea. They decided to go
out for a few times at the old house where Penelope lived.
• Nuria dies and she left some letters to Daniel telling him everything that she knows
about Julian, tells him how she was in love with Julian but married his friend Miquel
and how inspector Fumero was obsessed with Penelope ever since he was a child.
• Daniel finds out that the mysterious man is the author of the book that he picked up.
8. • Daniel finds out that Bea is pregnant and that she ran away from the home.
He finds her in the old house where they met a few times.
• Inspector Fumero followed Daniel. Fumero pointed a gun towards Daniel and
demanded to know where Julian was.
• Julian saves Daniel and fights with Fumero. While Daniel was running away
he was shot in the chest and he was sent to the hospital. Fumero ends up
dead.
• Daniel and Bea marry and they have a son named Julian. When his son was
10 years old, Daniel showed him the Graveyard of the Forgotten Books.
9. Characters
Daniel is the main character who’s obsessed with the author of he the book he
picked up as a kid. The more he finds about the author’s life the more he realises
that it resembles his.
Mr. Sempere is Daniel’s father. He’s a single father, his wife died when
Daniel was 4. He is a man with a good heart who likes his job and his son.
Fermin was a homeless man and Daniel took him to work at his father’s
bookstore. Turns out he worked against the government during the Spanish
war.
10. Characters
Julian Carax is an author of the book that Daniel picked up. He’s a man who
went through a lot. His father didn’t show him love and later he was separated
from his love and he decided to burn all of his books.
Inspector Fumero is a villain. He’s also obsessed with Julian because he was
also in love with Penelope. People feared him because he showed no mercy
when killing others. He would constantly change his sides during the war.
Beatriz/Bea is Daniel’s lover and a sister of Daniel’s best friend. She was
suposed to marry to another man who was in the army but she fell in love with
Daniel.
