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    Child Labor The informational text Child Labor Around The World by Nelda Marquez talks about kids in labor. The job is hard, dangerous and low paying. Education is a very important step to stop child labor. So let's get started and talk about child labor. The thinks these kids do is very dangerous, hard and low paying. Around the world 250 million kids have to work for low pay. They have to work 12 hours a day in extremely hot weather. A kid one time was over doing child labor and went city to…

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    Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Angela is the main element of the novel. Without Angela being the hub of the novel there will be no purpose of the any of the events that occurred throughout the novel. Colombian society during that time was a male-dominant society. There were two roles in the novel, the machismo, and marianismo. These roles defined what a man and a woman were to do in religious, societal, and home environments. Marquez “...managed to capture the nuances…

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    weather was funereal, with a cloudy, low sky” (García Márquez 4). The memories of that morning for the individuals reporting the information is the reality they remember or simply the reality they choose to report to the narrator, making the reader unsure of which viewpoint to…

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    a result, the brothers of Angela are obligated to murder Santiago for his actions. The thrilling novel takes place in a 19th century Columbian town, who seemed to have all failed poor Santiago. In Chronicle of a Death Foretold by a Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author illustrates male dominance, and that women are of lesser value to men this society by being raised to be serviceable wives, in order to demonstrate how the female characters in the text are put in a position where they are unable to…

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    Foretold Gender Roles

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    according to tradition and is returned to her parents home. “She was his mad passion, his mistress of tears at the age of fifteen until Ibrahim Nasar drove him out of the bed with a whip and shut him up for more than a year on The Divine Face”( Marquez 5). In this quote we see that Santiago isn't as innocent as he seems and this could have influenced the reader into believing that Santiago did indeed take away Angela's innocence and that his death was justified in that sense. Bayardo also…

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    equality and some that negate it, some to the point of desiring something other than one’s partner. For this essay, I will provide and analyze quotations from both academic sources on sociology and community studies, a biography of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as ideas from “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World”. In this essay, “community” will refer to the subset of society that is formed through marriage and the experiences of those involved. In the end, a marriage that satisfies both…

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    rotten shellfish.” (Marquez 356). This is using symbolism to show that Marquez…

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    Latin American culture are emphasized through the symbolism of knives. Gabriel Garcia Marquez includes this symbol to challenge traditional ideologies of social status and machismo in Latin American culture. The reader comes to a greater knowledge of Latin American culture through this symbol and the social hierarchy of Latin America as well as an understanding of the prevalence of machismo throughout the work. Marquez provides his viewpoints on these aspects of culture via a satirical social…

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    meanings; far beyond what the naked eye could interpret. Gabriel García Márquez, a writer who has done an efficient job at doing this, thoroughly explains Latin America’s solitude in his speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In Marquez’s speech, he uses solitude as a metaphor to convey the misconceptions of Latin American Literature and uses solitude to give the voiceless a voice. To start with, Gabriel García Márquez uses solitude as a metaphor to convey the misconceptions of where Latin…

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    Handsomest Drowned Man

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    the short story: namely, that people have an inherent need to believe in something greater than themselves. Marquez conveys this theme by utilizing tactics such as setting, characters, a protagonist, symbolism, and imagery. Marquez describes the place where the men, women, and children live in as a village, a word which helps to represent and bring about the setting of the short story. Marquez states, “The village was made up…

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