English | Summary | Unit One: Stories of the Supernatural
The Lost Doll | A story from Colombia
The story
is set in a village of Colombia. The main characters are Rosa Soto, her two
daughters Maria Del Carmen and Evangelina. Other characters are Rosa’s husband
Roberto and sister from Bogota.
The story
is about reincarnation. Little Carmen was the Soto’s first child. Carmen was
beautiful, bright and loving, but with frail health. She died shortly after she
turned to her fourth spring. Everyone in the village participated in her
funeral. At her birth, a doctor told Rosa that she would not bear other
children. She believed him truly. So she gave Carmen’s playthings including
clothes to a priest from another village. But she could not find a lost doll
that Carmen had always carried around with her. The doll was beautiful with
blue eyes and a red dress.
They searched
for the doll in the house, and also asked the priest if it was gone with her
clothes. But he said that is was not. Even they asked the undertaker. However,
they could not find the doll. On the passage of time Rosa got pregnant which
helped them forget the beautiful doll. Exactly the year after Carmen’s death,
Rosa gave birth to another daughter. She was named Evangelina which meant good
news. Unlike her dead sister Carmen, Evangelina was healthy, but in other
aspects such as body build, appearance and even in manner she was exactly like
Carmen. Evangelina always thought she used to be sick, but it was really her
dead sister who was sick.
One day
Evangelina said she knew where the doll had been kept. She pointed to the ground
under a big tree. Rosa and her sister it with a shovel and found the doll. She asked
Evangelina how she knew where the doll had been buried. Evangelina said she
kept it there when she had been sick and a kind man helped her to bury it. Then
he took her with him.
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