Dante Gabriel Rossetti

La Casa Matusita is an urban legend that is known to all people in lima-Peru. This haunted yellow house holds various types of mysteries. Many people prefer to avoid this house, especially during the night for pretty good reasons too. There is not only one, but two versions to how this urban legend goes. One tells of a man who found his wife in bed with another man. After killing both his wife and her lover with a knife, he killed his children and then turned the blade on himself. The other…

“Tuesday Siesta” is a short story written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicting the journey of a mother and daughter traveling to a town in order to pay their respects to Carlos Centeno Ayala, a man who was both a beloved son and brother. Centeno was a very good man and had a passion for boxing, “On
the
other
hand, before, when
he
used
to
box, he used
to
spend
three
days
in
bed, exhausted from being punched” (Marquez 4). His mother taught “him to never steal anything that anyone needed to eat” and…

While events in these three books echo the history of their respective countries, events are not the only occurrence from which inspiration is drawn. The main characters in stories also represent their countries in post-colonial and civil war ages. The Buendia family in 100 Years of Solitude represents different parts of Columbia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendia family are solitary in some way, which is a representation of the solitude of Latin America.…

I believe that the message of “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” was to not fear the unknown. The two main points that support this in the story, are how the town’s people treat the angel lesser than human and the symbolism of the chicken coop. The chicken coop symbolizes a cage that society puts people who are different in because when we don’t understand something, we fear it. At the end of the story, in paragraphs ten and eleven, the angel’s “job” is done and the son of Pelayo somewhat…

The Story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” includes many features, which may be described as magical realism. Marquez uses magical realism to combine reality and fictional so that the difference between the two erases. Although the large man is thought to be an angel, because of his weird looks and awkward nature the townspeople treat him poorly. This shows people are incapable of looking past something's cover and into what it really is. Through the use of magical realism, Marquez shows us…

The Interactive Oral helped change my understanding of Chronicle of a Death Foretold because of cultural and contextual concepts that went otherwise unnoticed while reading this novel by Marquez. Colombia has different cultural atmosphere created by customs and traditions that, as Americans, we cannot easily understand without researching the subject. In fact, one cultural concept that particularly changed my view of the novel once researched, was the gender roles portrayed in the work. I…

Dancing with the Devil in the City of God by Juliana Barbossa is a deeply written biography of the chaos and trauma that occurred in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Juliana is a Brazilian-native but traveled frequently to Iraq, Malta, Libya, Spain, France, and the United States. She returned to her home city, Rio de Janeiro after over two entire decades. She is an award winning author who received her bachelor's degrees in Spanish Literature and Journalism from The University of Texas and master's…

We chose Los Angeles to be the home of the Stingrays because Los Angeles is one of the only biggest cities in the country that doesn 't have a football team there, but also Los Angeles is one of the wealthiest cities in America, and it 's also surrounded by wealthy cities such as, San Jose and Silicon Valley. The average age in Los Angeles is about 34 which means most of the people in the Los Angeles region are employed. The average household income is about $55,000 which shows that families can…

Magic is the belief in supernaturalism, the belief that there is something beyond the ordinary. Magic is often portrayed as power and knowledge, and thus awarded to those who are worthy. In “The Cliff” by Charles Baxter, magic is portrayed as tradition. In the short story, a young boy and an old man, not distinguishable by name, drive to an unidentified spot along the coastline of California where the old man would teach the boy magic. More specifically, how to fly. Flying would give the boy a…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez,one of the best Latin American writers of our generation and with a unique written style. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known as the writer of the magical realism. Consequently, his magical realism can be found in his short stories that reflect situations related with our current humanity. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the most important writers in our period, who was characterized by writing about a magical realism in our epoch. As a result, his unique style can be…