Shiva's Tears Characters and Detailed Summary

In this wonderful article, we will tell you about the Shiva's Tears Characters, a work written by the Spanish journalist César Mallorquí.

Shiva's Tears Characters

To start this detailed summary of the characters of Las Lágrimas de Shiva, we must know who the writer of this magnificent work is and what his contributions to Spanish literature were.

About its Author

César Mallorquí del Corral was born on June 10, 1953 in Barcelona, ​​Spain. His father was also a writer, so from a very young age he was always in contact with books and literature.

In addition, he studied journalism at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Complutense University and worked as a reporter for 10 years. In 1991 he directed the IADE Advertising Creativity Course at the University of Alfonso X el Sabio, where at the same time he collaborated as a television scriptwriter for various production companies.

From that moment on, César Mallorquí began to write fiction books, since he had abandoned this activity when he began working in advertising, giving preference to science fiction and fantasy themes.

[su_note]This book called Las Lágrimas de Shiva was published in 2005 by Edebé and has a total of 237 pages, the genre is Children and Youth. This being a story of adventures and mysteries.[/su_note]

Art Works

Among the works carried out by this wonderful writer we have:

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• The Iron Rod 1993.
• The Jericho Circle 1995.
• The stamp collector 1996.
• The last work of Mr. Moon 1997.
• The Brotherhood of Eihwaz 1998.
• The Cross of El Dorado 1999.
• The dark master 1999.
• The Cathedral 2000.
• The Sandman 2001.
• The Tears of Shiva 2002.
• Agartha's door 2003.
• The Company of Flies 2004.
• The Inca stone 2005.
• The lost journey 2005.
• The game of heretics 2010.
• Leonis 2011.
• The strategy of the parasite 2012.
• Thirteen monkeys 2015.
• Instruction manual for the end of the world 2019.
• Zulu time 2019.[/su_list]

Among the awards received by this writer we can name:

Aznar Awards, Alberto Magno Award 1992 and 1993, Édebe Award for Youth Literature 2002 for Las Lágrimas de Shiva, Cervantes Chico Award 2015 for all Youth Literature, among others that he has received over time.

Character Analysis

In order to understand this great work of Spanish Literature, we are going to explain each of the Characters of Shiva's Tears.

Shiva's Tears is the story of two teenagers who decide to solve a mystery about an object that has been missing for seven decades following the trail of a ghost. This work is set in Spain in 1969 and where certain events of great importance took place worldwide.

Characters

Within the Characters of The Tears of Shiva we have:

Javier:

He is the protagonist of this story, who is 15 years old and when his father got sick, he decides to live for a while at his Aunt Adela's house, his mother's sister, and with her husband and daughters. During that time that he comes to live in that house, he discovers the secret of Las Lágrimas de Shiva, knowing the spirit of Ana Obregón.

Javier loves science fiction books and was very excited about the man landing on the Moon.

Rose:

She is the oldest cousin who is 18 years old, she is the most mature of all, she is very romantic, she has a boyfriend named Gabriel Mendoza who, despite the fact that both families hate each other, they see each other secretly. She wants to study Architecture.

Daisy flower:

She is 17 years old, it can be said that she is Javier's rebellious cousin, with many feminist and left-wing ideas, she has an effervescent personality and is full of life.

Violet:

She is the typical serious and conceited young lady, but very ambitious as a writer, she is 15 years old, she is the one who accompanies Javier in the investigation work on the ghost of Ana Obregón and on the tears of Shiva. The contact they have throughout this story makes them fall in love in the end.

Lily:

She is the smallest of the cousins, she is 12 years old and is the most reserved and is rarely heard of. But when she is there she makes a comment, it is very important to listen to her because she brings an opinion of something very relevant.

Aunt Adela and Uncle Luis:

They are Javier's uncles, the uncle is dedicated to making artifacts and inventions so he is an extremely strange character thanks to his creativity. He himself has a kind and understanding personality.

Only when Rosa, her daughter, becomes Gabriel Mendoza's girlfriend, she is not so kind and understanding since these families have had differences for a long time. On the other hand, his Aunt Adela is a very discreet person who speaks very little.

Beatriz Obregon:

It is the ghost or spirit of a relative of Javier's Tíos, but who had the characteristic of being the black sheep of the family. She this she becomes the girlfriend of a man she never loved so one day before getting married she runs away from her.

Taking with her a necklace that he gave her which is called «The Tears of Shiva». She elopes with his lifelong love Simón Cienfuegos. Beatriz was a young blonde, with blue eyes and a sad look.

This ghost in the course of this story begins a relationship with Javier that evolves throughout the development of the story. Beatriz Obregón had a maid named Amalia. And Simón Cienfuegos is the true love of Beatriz Obregón, but because he was a mulatto and a pirate they did not accept him.

Another of the characters of The Tears of Shiva are:

Gabriel Mendoza:

He is the son of the Mendoza family, when Rosa's father discovers this relationship he comes to prohibit it. Since the Tears of Shiva necklace was owned by the Mendoza family.

When the lost necklace appears, the relationship between Rosa and Gabriel improves, since Gabriel looks for Rosa again, but with the difference that they have the consent of Uncle Luis and ignore the opinion of Gabriel's father.

History

The characters of The Tears of Shivanos tell:

The story of a boy named Javier who lives with his family in Madrid. But as a result of his father suffering from tuberculosis and having to be hospitalized for several months, his parents decide to send him on vacation to Santander at his Aunt Adela's house, although he did not like the idea at all.

Javier's mother had recommended that he never mention the Tears of Shiva necklace, which was a very valuable necklace that had been lost. And that 70 years later it still generated discomfort in both families.

When he arrives in Santander he meets the Obregón family. His uncles Luis and Adela and his four cousins ​​all live in Villa Candelaria, which is an old house that has a large library with portraits of the Obregón family.

Javier was a boy who likes to read science fiction books a lot and for the Moon, being there he makes friends with Violeta who also loves to read.

At the beginning of his arrival at the house he felt alone, so he must adapt to the circumstances, but that is when certain events begin to happen, which make him change his mind.

Margarita is the one who shows her the house. And when they get to the library they find a painting of a woman with a diamond necklace, when Margarita thinks to tell her the story of the woman in the painting, her aunt calls them to dinner.

At night, in one of those Javier wakes up because he had the feeling that there was someone else there, but he doesn't see anyone. Every time he feels this presence he perceives the smell of tuberose.

Over the course of those weeks, three very relevant events occurred, which Javier never forgot. One night he saw his cousin Rosa running away from home, he discovers that his uncle is an inventor and the most important of all is that he once again felt the presence of someone or a ghost that could also be seen by Rosa's cousin. he Violet of him.

Violeta takes Javier to the cemetery to tell him that the ghost she had seen was her Aunt Great-grandmother Beatriz, who had been accused of being the family thief, because she was going to marry a Mendoza, when she ran away with the necklace he gave her. had given on the engagement. In her tomb it was written that she saw the Savanna, so they decide to investigate what she was.

The next morning Violeta and Javier decide to go to the port, where they meet Captain Bárcena, who tells them that the Savanna was a ship captained by Simón Cienfuegos.

For that same day, the first landing on the moon was taking place, so Uncle Luis had built a television to watch it. In one of those that Javier leaves the bathroom, he observes that the name Amalia was written on the glass of the bathroom mirror.

[su_note]Violeta suspected that Javier's presence strengthened Beatriz, so she deduced that she must have been the one who wrote that in Javier's bathroom.[/su_note]

Later that day, he found out that Amalia had been a maid to Beatriz and was still alive. And Uncle Luis found out that Rosa had a boyfriend so he forbade her to leave the house.

Violeta and Javier decide to visit Amalia, who is already an old woman, but they realized that she was lying to them, so they decided to return to Villa Candelaria, where they began to investigate in the attic and found a desk. And in a compartment of the same they found a letter from Simón Cienfuegos to Beatriz.

The letters written by Simón Cienfuegos were about love. So they decide to visit Amalia again and then she tells them that Beatriz had eloped with Simón to Jamaica to avoid marrying Benjamín Mendoza and while in Jamaica she dies.

Beatriz Obregón was a young woman who was engaged to Sebastián Mendoza in 1901, the son of a very wealthy family from Santander, and he had given her a necklace with five emeralds with gold and diamonds called Las Lágrimas de Shiva for their engagement. Beatriz disappears along with the necklace.

So the rumor spread that she had run away with the necklace to sell it and make her own life away from the family. Later it was learned that she was deceased and that she was not buried with the rest of her family.

And since then the two families are at odds. On one of those nights Javier wakes up, noticing the presence of the ghost of Beatriz Obregón and she tells him to follow her and takes him to an attic where he points to an empty drawer.

Beatriz had entrusted the necklace to her maid Amalia to give it to her father, but due to family discussions she decided to keep it. Javier decides to go visit her to retrieve her necklace.

Then Javier gives it to his Uncles who in turn return it to the Mendoza family, causing the problem between the two families to be resolved.

Gabriel asks Don Luis for Rosa's hand and he accepts. The next day they go to the beach and just as they are saying goodbye, Javier and Violeta share a huge kiss. While at that moment a strong smell of tuberose spreads in the air.

Javier leaves Villa Candelaria on September 5.

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Curiosities

Within the curious data of the characters of the Tears of Shiva we have the origin of this necklace, the theme on which this story is based, the time in which this novel takes place, also within this story they tell us the musical tastes of their characters.

About Shiva's Tears

It is said that the demon Ravana hated King Shiva for withdrawing his support in the fight against God Vishru and to take revenge the demon decided to kill what Shiva loved most, which was his wife Durga, and ripped out his heart, brain, kidneys and the liver.

Shiva seeing his wife death sheds five tears, but these tears become the organs of his wife and Durga Resurrected.

Themes

The themes reflected in the Characters of Shiva's Tears are based on: the discovery of love and friendship between its characters, the problems that a family has to face the situation together, it also talks about forbidden loves, rivalries between families, hatred and enthusiasm to find answers to these secrets.

Time

The time in which the story takes place is in the vacation period between the period of July and September 1969.

Music

In this story they also tell us about the musical tastes of the different members of the family.

Violeta likes the music of the Beatles, Rosa likes Jazz, Azucena listens to all kinds of music, Tía Adela likes to listen to classical music and Tío Luis is happy with North American tangos and singers.

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Phrases from the book

Within the characters of Shiva's Tears, we will read some phrases like these:

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• "I discovered a lot of things that summer, and not just a missing necklace."
• "I guess the prettiest flowers grow in dunghills."
• «I discovered that paradise can be found in the touch of soft skin, that caresses are stronger than blows, that kisses can make you fly».
• "But it was not the beauty of that woman that caught my attention, but the subtle expression of sadness that could be seen in her eyes."
• "There was a ghost, yes, and an old secret hidden in the shadows, but there was also much more."
• I discovered that there were unexpected feelings inside me, that you can laugh and cry at the same time, that it is so exciting to love and to be loved; I finally discovered something as simple and as complex, as vulgar and as extraordinary, as sweet and as bitter as love.”[/su_list]

It can be said that this novel is a great reading option for teenagers, since through this story they will be encouraged to read. This work is written in a way that is very easy to understand with simple language.

It tells us in an entertaining way the adventures and mysteries that the characters of Shiva's Tears have to solve., In addition to that, within the book they tell us about the history of God Shiva and the musical tastes of the characters within the story. As you will also see precious love stories that try to overcome all the inconveniences that prevent them from loving each other freely, due to all the existing family problems between these two families.

[su_note]So I think it's a novel worth reading, as it will keep you entertained from start to finish and leave you with a good feeling after reading the story.[/su_note]

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