Unit Five: South American Stint

Due to the lack of availability of online texts, we'll have to limit our study of South American literature. Still, in the one Gabriel Garcia Marquez short story we'll read, you will find the same patterns, the same archetypes as in other stories. Follow the same method of analysis as you develop your assignment for this lesson.



Assignment #1: Read "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Write a two-page essay on the style of Marquez's story. Reconsider the second unit where Harold Scheub discussed the importance of body for the storyteller; how has Garcia Marquez made up for his inability to use his body movement in conveying the story? How does his style affect the themes in the story?