The novel is both a fun adventure story and an in-depth exploration of timeless themes like friendship, justice, and the role of religion in society.
The result is a book rich with historical detail. She threw herself into the project, researching the period, traveling to all of the novel's locations, and even taking fencing lessons.
However, when the owners of the character's copyright approached her with the idea of writing a novel about him, she was almost insulted: she remembered thinking, I am a serious writer, I don't write on commission." But the idea of inventing Zorro's youth-telling the tale of what turned him into a masked hero-captured Allende's imagination. She enjoyed watching modern film versions of his story with her grandchildren and, in the interview "Loving Zorro, Writing Zorro, admitted, As a young woman I was in love with Zorro. She was indeed interested in the legendary character. The Chilean American novelist Isabel Allende almost refused to write her 2005 novel Zorro.
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