I actually really enjoy the genre of Magical Realism. I was first exposed to it as a high school junior, when I read some Marquez for my Spanish class. I loved the way my teacher explained a good way to read it. You need to just clear your mind of what is “normal” and just [...]
Well according to Professor Eversley, I can draw my butt off. I believe in her sincerity, so enjoy!
The thing about Innocence is that it is so incredibly….irresistable. Erendira’s line of work is far from glamorous but at the same time she was very successful. Its not so ironic if you analyze it correctly. She was [...]
Reading Garcia Marquez’s “The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother,” makes me question the extent of family deity. As children, most of us are taught to respect the elders and to listen to what our parents/guardians tell us to do. While we may not always like what we are told [...]
Oppression has been with Erendira from the start
Grandmother and her were world’s apart
With daily chores that squeezed her dry
Erendira’s pleas heard no reply
Night and Day, she would not rest
Submitting to obscene requests
One night, misfortune struck a blow
That left their home with fire aglow
Erendira was in debt
For a mistake she can’t forget
Her body was bargained for,
She [...]
I recognize Erendira as a peripheral character in Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. She was a prostitute that one of the sons (Aureliano ?) slept with. Aureliano was horrified at her predicament, but also deeply impressed with the stengh she displayed. An isolated and withdrawn youth, Aureliano wanted to be the one to rescue her from this tragic [...]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a brilliant writer, his talent is indescribable and irreplicable (I know it’s not a real word). He uses magical realism, which was hard to accept when I first read One Hundred Years of Solitude, but eventually I understood how this technique, his style is an extraordinary way to depict the humanty. [...]