ALENCAR

O Guarani 7.1 · 7.1

Evening was dying

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A tarde ia morrendo.

The afternoon was dying.

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AaThetardeTAR-deafternooniaEE-awasmorrendomo-HEN-dudying.

The setting

Chapter VII opens, like Chapter V, on the fall of light — but now it swells into Alencar's great sunset overture, the Ave-Maria hour over the forest.

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A single clause opens the chapter, as in Chapter V — but 'dying' pitches it higher: this sunset is a death and a prayer, the famous Ave-Maria scene about to unfold.

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