Gabriel Dumont

Over a span of 100 years, the Buendía family recycled and reused the names of the original family members, José Arcadio, Aureliano, Amaranta, and Úrsula, and send the following generations of the family to drown under waves and waves of predetermined doom. The lives of the new name-bearers carry strains of the originals, as if their names are made up of the talents, characteristics, abilities, tragedies, and traits of their predecessors that manifest themselves in their new host. The characters…

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After exiting the plane, the first thing I noticed was the voices of the crowd. The words spoken at the Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport seemed to mix together, and I could no longer focus on individual conversations like I could at Toronto several hours earlier. This trip to the Colombian island of San Andrés marked the first time I was venturing to a country where English was not the official language. In the weeks leading up to the trip I had tried to prepare by memorizing common…

In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel García-Márquez, Márquez uses structure and magical realism to make Santiago’s death inevitable, highlighting the idea that fate is inescapable, and that it outweighs ideals such as truth or justice. In part one, the reader learns that the novel is written from what seems to be the perspective of an old friend of Santiago’s who is piecing together the events leading up to Santiago’s death, 27 years after Santiago has died. The narrator puts…

that lands in their yard, it left me feeling as if not everything is as it seems and miracles do happen. There are several reasons this story is memorable. The pieces of this short story that I found interesting were used in symbolism and character. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a story that I will be able to recall in five years from now. From the setting the narrator tells us “The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea and sky were a single ash-gray thing and…

In Gabriel Gárcia Márquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings," the people all believe in angels; and believe he is one right away but the moral of the story is sometimes just because we have an idea of the way something should be, isn’t how it is. Angels…

Latin American literature has many different variations of tone; three types of tone that can be found are depression, dark tones, and frustration. The author’s tone of depression can relate to the oppression and loss of hope due to societies beliefs at the time. Depression can be shown through the short story “Light is Like Water” and the poem “Poet’s Epitaph”. The author details his or her work within these stories in a way that allows the reader to feel some of their sorrow. Ominous tones…

To please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them” - John-Jacques Rousseau England in the 19th century was wrought with the battle for women’s rights, specifically the education of women. In his poem, Jenny, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s narrator makes various references to books – those on his shelf, and how pressing a flower into a book can “crush the flower within the soul” (256). He appears to make a social commentary within his poem about the unknown thoughts…

The use of fantastic elements in an acceptable and believable setting is reminiscent of other texts that have been categorized as magical realism. Investigating the use of magical realism within ethnic writings of non-Latin American origin, Roland Walter notes that "magic is an integral part of reality in that the natural and supernatural categories of reality are harmoniously intertwined" (2). This mingling of the natural world with the supernatural is a key component in The Hundred Secret…

By nature, every single person ever created was born with different views and ideas. There may be groups of people that agree on certain subjects and ideas, but not everyone is the same. From what someone automatically thinks of when they see a painting to how they interpret a work of poetry. The words, thoughts, and images that come to one's mind differ from the many other people in the world. ☆In the painting, Circe Pouring Poison Into a Vase and Awaiting the Arrival of Ulysses, Sir Edward…