Category: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Magic Realism, or what is known as amazing surprising realism, is a key genre found in Gabriel Garcia Marquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is defined as a style of storytelling that paints a realistic view of the modern world while also adding magic elements. This theme is important to the novel as it…

One Hundred Years of Solitudes Fernanda del Carpio is described as a woman who was lost to the world: [Fernanda] had been born and raised in a city six hundred miles away, a gloomy city where on ghostly nights the coaches of the viceroys still rattled through the cobbled streets. Thirty-two belfries tolled a dirge…

In Latin America and other parts of the world, a person in the family (usually the father) was the head of the family, somebody who no one dared to face while the woman (the mother) is the servant or slave of the family and the house. Marquez, he tried to make sure to make that…

The Implication of Magic and Myth: Typically in a magical realism context, authors install a mythical and explicable item along with the prosaic ordinary complications. and, they hire both of them as a means of endurance in a civilization that prides itself on scientific triumphs and at the same point as a tool for surviving…

By portraying the lives of subsistence farmers in India, ‘Nectar in the Sieve’ is full of unshakable depictions of unspeakable suffering. Even in the best circumstances, Rukmani’s family has an unstable sense of security and is long enough to eat. When plagued by disease or agricultural failure, they do not have the resources to support…