Ideas for the paper

During our conversation with Nina Scott, she had a very interesting comment regarding the moment in the novel when Sab takes Carlota, Theresa, and Don Carlos down to visit the caves in Cubitas and that Carlota's name is carved into the cave wall. Sab was the one to carve her name onto the wall and this is one of the moments in which we see that Sab is expressing the way he feels. A possible essay topic would be to write about how each of the characters in the novel express thier emotions differently. Sab uses underground or isolated places (also like the garden) in order to express himself, while Carlota expresses her emotions about Enrique openly. Theresa seems to not share many of her emotions but little by little her character begins to unravel. In toher words, this would be like a character development essay, but instead of just writing about the traits of certain characters, it would discuss how the characters express their emotions throughout the novel.