Literary Qualities
Kino’s story is an allegory: his journey affords him a small amount of personal growth and a variety of lessons on which to reflect. An […]
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Social Sensitivity
Written in the mid-1940s, The Pearl addresses numerous social issues that gained prominence at that time and that remained among the chief concerns of late […]
Ideas and Topics for Papers
VII TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Consider the following quote from The Pearl: “An accident could happen to these oysters, a grain of sand could lie […]
Related Titles and Adaptations
Another compelling fable by a famous author is Animal Farm. Published in 1945 by George Orwell, this satire is a story about farm animals who […]
Introduction
In the mid-1960s journalist and fiction writer Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez was little known outside his native Colombia, having never sold more than 700 copies […]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In 1928, the year when more than 100 local strikers were massacred, Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia. His first years were spent with […]
Plot Summary
A The Founding of Macondo One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells the story of the Buendia family and the fictional town […]
Characters
A Mauricio Babilonia Always accompanied by yellow butterflies, Mauricio gains access to Meme through the roof over the bathtub, where a man once fell to […]
Themes
A Solitude The dominant theme of the novel, as evident from the title, is solitude. Each character has his or her particular form of solitude. […]
Construction
A Climax The Hungarian composer Bela Bartok fascinates Garcia Marquez and so the author constructed his novel along this composer’s line. For example, he configured […]