Death Constant Beyond Love Sparknotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian writer, and one of his most influential and important literature known for magical realism in Latino America is his tale “Death Constant beyond Love.” In this story he creates an outlaw, Senator Onésimo Sánchez, and its existence is clear by his impending death of six months and eleven days. While he knows that he will die soon, he refuses to live his life with those he loves. On the other hand, he is looking for a new love of his life with whom he decides to live his last and happiest moments in life. In this short passage, the senator has being relocated to Rosal del Virrey an illusory village during the electoral campaign. In his elections, the Senator’s aides decorated a whole, worthy of circus, that drew the people with all dreamed, as he spoke. When he finished the speech, the Senator walked in the streets of the town to meet the demands of its people. As he meets with a single mother who request for a donkey to carry water and with no objections the senator …show more content…
Then his daughter Laura Farina come to look out for her father and Onesimo Sanchez was so amazed by her beauty that he fell in love for her. That same night, Nelson Farina sent his daughter to the senator’s home and he tried to sleep with her, but he tripped with a “padlock” that protected her virginity. Laura Farina said that “the key was held by his father and that only if he brings him an ID, he will let go the key” (5). The senator thought about not knowing what to do and in the end he said he would give the ID to his father and cuddle Laura Farina for the rest of the night. Six months and eleven days later he died in the same place, sad because he left his love and despised and rejected by the people because of his scandal with Laura