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Plot Summary of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
"Mario, a 19-year old Law-student working in a radio station, falls in love with his aunt-in-law, Julia Urquidi. She thinks Mario is a child and calls him 'Varguitas' but soon he proves to her he's a young man already, with great ambitions of becoming a novelist in Paris. They end up in love, and issues arouse when relatives become known of this. They flee to an unknown town intending to be married.

Meanwhile, Mario finds a friend in Pedro Camacho, a soap opera radio writer who, after achieving great success, has begun to lose control over his characters (they die in one episode to reappear the next) and runs of the risk of being fired since the audience is getting confused. The boiling imagination of Camacho's scripts and the riotous life of Varguitas is interweaved: Varguitas confronts his family claiming that he will provide a good life to Julia. She encourages him to pursue his dream of going to Paris and Camacho loses his mind and is sent to a mental hospital."

Augusto Wong Campos, Resident Scholar



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Plot
Tone of book? - humorous
Time/era of story - 1930's-1950's
Romance/Romance Problems Yes
Family, loving relations Yes
Special relationship with - aunt
Internal struggle/realization? Yes
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Brain/Body disability? - mental illness
Lover is - much younger/older

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Ethnicity/Nationality - Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - society
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 5 ()
The Americas (not US): Yes
The Americas: - South

Style
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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