Establishing Character Moment: Victor, who has been serving as a medic for three years in the front lines, ends up saving the life of a young soldier by applying direct compressions on the boy's heart, even though he could have given up much earlier.After he goes to Chile and enrolls in in med school, he has to be careful in laboratory and practical classes because he does not want to embarrass his professors. Deliberate Underperformance: Víctor learned on the job as a medic during the Civil War.Big Brother Instinct: During the Del Solar Christmas feast, Felipe warns his sister Ofelia that if he catches her flirting with Víctor Dalmau (a married refugee who is dirt poor), he'll tell their father.The novel covers the next few decades of their lives in Chile, as well as that of other characters.
Somehow, they manage to reunite and board the SS Winnipeg that will take them and several other Spanish refugees to some remote country in South America called Chile. Víctor Dalmau and his late brother's love Roser Bruguera are caught up by the war. It is set against the background of the Spanish Civil War. A Long Petal of the Sea (Original Spanish title: Largo pétalo de mar) is a 2019 Historical Fiction novel by Isabel Allende.
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