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    grow and work. A male virginity isn't important, they aren't judged based on that. Meanwhile, a female's virginity is the utmost importance. A female grows up to be secluded and are taught to be good wives. In the Chronicle of Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author illustrates the lack of freedom for women in marriage, sexual activities, and domestic responsibilities in order to show the strict moral values that governs their society and lead directly to the killing of an innocent

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    techniques to contribute a larger and richer meaning of the stories. Allegory is one of the techniques that a story has a second meaning beneath the surface and has a deeper significance to inspire reader.. “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a short story that implies people customary watching the strange new things and may ignore the real spirit of the new things. This story is a type of fantasy, but with realism story to explore the human nature. In the story, a very

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    Home is where the heart is, unless it is a small village in rural Colombia. In the case of the villagers who populate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Chronicle of a Death Foretold”, the concept of community triggers feelings of hostility, vengeance, and anger. As far as this town’s culture goes, family and religion trump all: they drive the Vicario brothers to murder, and force the women of the village to reach unrealistic standards under obscure guidelines. It seems no one is immune to the strength of

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    Rios Pathos Sparknotes

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    In the first sections of the book, Rios use pathos effictevly to talks about his childhood in Modesto,CA. He introduces us to many short story’s while explaining his early childhood memories and how your stereotypical masculinity in the barrio is not true since he was a very emotional boy growing up. In one of the short stories, Rios explains his dog, Skippy. He explains his dog as his friend and in a very detailed way. He also states how his dog went everywhere with him. One day his dog got rabies

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    The main universal theme of Pedro Paramo is that death is inevitable. This is shown by the fact that everyone is dead in Comala. The author of Pedro Paramo is Juan Rulfo, he was born in Sayula, Mexico. His book collections such as The Burning Plain (1953) and the book Pedro Paramo made him a big literary figure. In Pedro Paramo, Juan is sent on a journey to find his father (Pedro which who the book is written after) who sent his mom away because she kept asking continually to see her sister. Juan

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    Tragedy and Comedy in Chronicle of a Death Foretold Through Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Marquez utilizes comedy and tragedy to reveal the inevitability of fate. Marquez conveys the tragedy of Santiago Nasar's murder by building suspense and developing the characters. Throughout the play the audience encounters several examples of the tragic factors leading to Santiago’s death that build a strong sense of apprehension. One was the idea of Santiago being an innocent man who is wrongly accused and

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    In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses his novel to vituperate religion. Marquez retells the Bible in his own words through his novel.With Macondo being a retelling of humanity’s past and future, religion is brought in as a corrupting element and explains the reason the family acts as it does.Marquez’s allusions to the bible are used to create solitude and sin within the village of Macondo. He does this in order to convey the message that religion is the origin of

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    Mysticism and Wings Is this real, or is this just fantasy. Gabriel García Márquez is said to have fathered the genre of “magical realism” with this story. What parts of the story felt magical to you and what parts felt real? How do they work together to convey the overall message of the story? Use specific lines of text from the story to support your assertion. Realism “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” provides a realism within its text that vividly envelope the reader within a in a short amount

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    Foretold Gender Roles

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    Gender Roles of a Culture Foretold On the surface, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold presents itself as a nonlinear account of a murder in a small town. However, the story is not told in the typical “whodunit” style. The reader is not required to figure out who was killed or who did the killing because within pages one realizes everyone already knows. Chronicle, instead, tells the story of an entire community’s lack of moral obligation as they do nothing to prevent

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    Magic Realism as a form of protest In the story “All About Suicide” Luisa Valenzuela uses magic realism to confuse and show the chaos in her country. Due to military coup d'etats and other illegitimate ways for people to become rule r freedom of speech was not a right. The ambiguity kept her from being seen as directly opposing Military ruler Juan Carlos Ongania and show the chaos in her country. Valenzuela uses magic realism to create a story that points out the chaos of her country but keeps her

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