Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a relatively small book, yet it is open to countless interpretations as to the book's overall purpose. Here I will discuss two such interpretations: Isabel Alvarez-Borland's analysis sees the novella as asking why a senseless murder...
Narrative structures vary from novel to novel as a technique that aides in the advancement of the plot and enhances the clarification of the literary devices employed throughout the story. In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, both traditional, or linear, narrative time and...
Magical realism is a truly transformative genre of fiction in which fantastical or mythical elements are blended with realistic ones in order to reveal something about human nature or existence. There have been many writers over the years who have attempted to capture the majesty...
In a benumbing world, devoid of much refreshment, a felicitous moment in time can unite people in a cohesive bond and rejuvenate the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” weaves this idea masterfully. He does not use grandiose foretelling statements...
Introduction Flannery O’Connor’s story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and Gabriel Marquez’s story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” are very different in nature, but share a common theme throughout. This theme is the depravity of humans, and in the context of...
A Tale For Children Gabriel Garcia-Marquez created a brilliant short story, once which forces his reading audience to suspend disbelief and understand a fairy tale of the modern era. The title of the work is is labelled as a children’s tale would be, “A Very...
Introduction There is an uncountable number of references to Latin American culture found within the literature, “Pedro Páramo” by Juan Rulfo, and “No One Writes to the Colonel” by Gabriel García Márquez. The question is: can a reader whose cultural experiences are based in the...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses imagery and symbolism throughout his entire short story from beginning to end. One of the most significant uses of symbolism in this text would be the old man or the angel that the village encounters which represents light and dirt. Angels...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” displays that we as a people persecute and torture the people who are different because we refuse to put in the effort to know and understand them as people. No one in the...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is renowned as a Colombian novelist who introduced the world to the genre of literature known as Magical Realism in his short stories. Magical realism concerns the overlap of the fantastical with reality; the occurrence of magic and myth in the day-to-day...
