Compare And Contrast One Of These Days And One Of These Days By Garica Marquez

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In my opinion, this story is about control. Emily's father controlled her life while he was alive and in turn she controls his by not wanting to release his body so that he could be buried properly. Emily wants to also be in control over Homer so she poisons him. This story is similar to the story "One of These Days" by Garica Marquez because both of these stories kind of revolves around "power" even the townspeople wanted to have power over Emily like the Mayor wanted to have power over the Dentist and vice Versa, but Emily refused to because she felt as though she had the power. Ths story is not told in any chronological order to me because the story travels back and forth in time keeping the reader captivated until the end of the story.The

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