He falls in love at once and eventually manages to make her his wife. However, when the Captain strikes down the chief, he finds that she is a woman. The story starts off in the eighteenth century with the handsome Captain Alejandro de la Vega, who helps a priest when the Native Americans are attacking his Californian mission. Allende’s Zorro tells the story of Zorro’s childhood, education in Spain and eventually his metamorphosis in the fox ( El Zorro) and choice to always fight for justice. In Zorro, Allende explores the myths and stories about Diego de la Vega, a.ka. To this day, a small part of me wishes to be this masked hero by night and some Mediterranean gentleman by day, but obviously I can’t, so I have to make do with the series, my imagination, and this wonderful book by Isabel Allende. I carved Z’s into walls, I ran around in a mask and I even tried to get my horse to prance, without much success. The point I’m getting at, is that I watched the reruns of Zorro, the clumsy series from the fifties, and therefore I played I was Zorro a lot when I was little. Kids from the 80s grew up with The A-Team, 90s’ kids with Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and I have no idea what kids watched who were born after 2000. Many children these days are formed by the things they see on television.
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