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Friday, November 11, 2016

A Short Story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Incredible and sorry Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her unfeeling Grandmother is a footling fiction story by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez who mappings his flavour experiences to make his stories. The narrative joint in the story balances characters and events and lastly breaks, momentarily, away from third soulfulness into first person mid-story, creating a liminal space connecting the story to some other world presumably ours. In this short story Marquez is influenced by the literary movement of actuality and uses some of the elements to develop the traits of Erendira, the granddaughter, the grandmother, Ulises and the settings. Garcia gives a powerful impression of the character of these characters. Naturalism in writings is an approach that proceeds from an summary of reality in wrong of natural forces like heredity, environment, and carnal drives. Naturalism neglects supernatural powers and considers the genius to be the primary cause for everything h appening. Marquez strives to portray life accurately through the dehumanization and the romanticization of adolescence that shape Erendira and her grandmothers life, showing the using of labor by advantage and of passivity by ruthlessness; Instead of free will, Marquez depicts Erendiras actions as determined by environmental forces surrounding her.\nMarquezs use of naturalistic style, depicting Erendira as a human puppet, helps us think her as dehumanized, a real human being going through real life. At the beginning of the story as the grandmother and Erendira get a ride to a township after the house fire down, we see the start of the dehumanization process. As a wages for the ride, the truck loader, taming her with tenderness. (203), makes love to Erendira. Marquezs use of the word taming  suggest animal treatment as we usually associate the word with fosterage animals. Soon after arriving in the town the grandmother as a mailman Do you like it? (205) in which he re...

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