Latin American literature

“When you lose touch with your inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” This quote by Eckhart Tolle shows how impactful the loss of peace can be to a person. Without their sanity, it is easy to identify these losses. Although this may not pertain to physical loss, emotional loss deals with more abstract losses such as self, hope, and reality. The effects of colonialism and war played a huge role in the negativity of people’s happiness, causing their hope to plummet. These losses are important aspects to the writing and literature to spread positivity and hope for the people. Latin American writing uses the theme of emotional losses, such as the loss of self, hope, and…

As Americans, various individuals may believe that all Latin American countries are the same as they do not have experience in their separate cultures. Although this is untrue, the average person living there often feels that they are not unique. Pablo Neruda is a famous Latin American poet and his poems “We Are Many” and “Too Many Names” show this feeling through just their titles. One theme that is pervasive in Latin American literature is the lack of individuality. A lack of individuality…

“Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don’t know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It’s just accepting that we don’t know everything and everything is possible” by Isabel Allende. Relevantly, magic realism was practiced in Latin America, it goes beyond reality to express impossible ideas. During the mid-1900s, an Argentinian author, Jorge Luis Borges, wrote the short story “The Circular Ruins”, this story illustrates the dreams of light and…

author, editor, literary critic, and playwright. He was an American realist, and was nicknamed, “The Dean of American Letters". Howells is well known for authoring stories, such as "Christmas Every Day", and novels like The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, among many others. His interest in literature started at a young age, and was probably passed down to him by his father , who made his living as a printer and publisher. William Dean Howells was born in Martinsville,…

classic literature. Although her knowledge on the classical education method was limited, Swope applied all she knew. The first while she especially focused on the area of English Grammar. Before long, Swope was thrilled to realize that the structured, traditional approach for teaching was showing results. Michelle and Michael were thriving under this training. Soon Michelle even began carrying around her precious notebook of words that she loved to read. Both reading and listening to stories…

Gabriel García Márquez was born in March 6, 1927. He was born in Aracataca. Hemingway gave him influence in the short stories he wrote. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and “The Handsomest Drowned Man” exemplifies the elements of the supernatural world. He is one of the most representative figures in the so-called Latin American Boom. Gabriel García Márquez uses the supernatural, the dark ,and the mysterious elements to amplify the magical realism between these two stories. García Márquez…

The Separation between the Fantastic and the Real in the Stories of Julio Cortázar Throughout the following research paper, we will develop the literary analysis of the stories "The night face up” “After lunch” “The Axolotl” and “Cefalea” by Julio Cortazar. I chose this author because we can enjoy his literature in which reality is transformed into fantasy, which catches us and forces us to interpret it. The author chosen belongs to the "boom" of Latin American literature. That is why his…

Keep it the Heming-Way “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” - Ernest Hemingway It has been brought to my attention that the English Department is questioning the importance of teaching about Ernest Hemingway, who they say is a “simplistic” writer. A Farewell to Arms is an example of a novel Hemingway wrote which mirrors his life and many of his own experiences during the time he spent in World War I. He is familiar with the settings of his novels…

1) The novel gives a brief description of the lives of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley before they come to Italy. Frederic used to be a student of architecture back in America. He volunteers to join the Italian army as an ambulance driver. Proof of this is when Catherine asks, “You’re the American in the Italian army” (Hemingway 22). Before Catherine comes to Italy, she had a fiance who had unfortunately passed away. They grew up together for eight years. She is an English woman who is a V.…

In his novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain communicated a strong message about the grim reality of Nineteenth century American life style. The author of the book is Mark Twain, originally known as Samuel Clemens, he was a mean old man. Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri on November 30th, 1835. He was the son of Jane Lampton, who was a native of Kentucky and John Clemens, who was a Virginian. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri. In 1847, John died unexpectedly…