great works ii – 2850 jta 12:25-2:05: love letters from the world

The theme I chose to point out from “My Cloud” is that everything gets old even one’s “cloud”. This theme re-appears throughout Aura numerous times, since the novel is essentially based on Consuelo’s effort to relive her youth. The theme of everything getting old is clearly brought to light when Felipe looks through the third portion of the memoirs and finds the pictures of “Aura” and the gentleman in the military uniform. “Then the photographs of Aura, of Aura with her green eyes, her black hair gathered in ringlets, leaning against Doric columns…in the third photograph you see both Aura and the old gentleman, but this time they’re dressed in outdoor clothes, sitting on a bench in a garden. The Photograph has become a little blurred: Aura doesn’t look as young as she did in the other picture, but its she” The clear progression Consuelo aging from the first picture to the third re-affirms the theme of everything getting old. Even the photograph, over time became blurred, again going back to the theme that everything gets old.