A look at the absurdity of society's values when justice is based on prejudice in Albert Camus' "The Stranger- and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold."" ... Both were exhausted from the barbarous work of death but the priest recalled the surrender as an act of great dignity- (Garcia Marquez 55). ... Pedro Vicario told the priest, " We killed him openly but we're innocent'- (Garcia Marquez 55). The priest responded, " Perhaps before God'- (Garcia Marquez 56), and Pablo responded, " Before God and before men it was a matter of honor&...

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Gabriel Marquez gave an example of the social and economic injustices committed in his home country, Colombia, in his Nobel Prize speech: "There have been five wars and seventeen military coups; there emerged a dictator who is carrying out, in God's name, the first Latin American ethnocide of our time. ... These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." ... Marquez describes the new inventions the gypsies bring with an almost wary tone: "In an instant they transformed the village. ...

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Isabel Allende, a Chilean novelist, illustrates the spectacular glow of the feminine influence on the power of patriarchy, despite the male refusal to acknowledge it as it's equal, by employing the use of magical realism, a modern Latin American literary tradition, with in her masterwork, The House of the Spirits, paralleling the magical realist work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez who discourses on the decay of absolute patriarchal power, as seen in Autumn of the Patriarch. ... In Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's paralleling figure, the General, is haunted by similar e...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez exemplifies a sympathetic mood towards Santiago by portraying him as a Christ like figure, however, he writes about the town having a negative viewpoint associated with him, helping to question the murder and whether he was wrongfully killed. ... Then Marquez takes the religious imagery to a whole new level, scattering huge pieces of evidence throughout the text. ... Then on page 5 Marquez describes Santiago's outfit, "a shirt and pants of white linen. ... During the autopsy and murder scenes, Marquez use ...

• Word Count: 847
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School