Likes dislikes of monninger and marquez Essays - Free Essays

Likes dislikes of monninger and marquez Essays - Free Essays Likes dislikes of monninger and marquez Give me Freedom to Interpret, or Give me Death! Imagine if every piece of literature we read used Edgar Allan Poe?s view that all the elements of the story should work together to create a single unified effect. Everybody would get the same meaning out of each story and interpret it the exact same way. Instead, weG27>>> have the luxury of coming up with multiple meanings of ourG28>>> own trying to figure out what it all really means. This was the view of the talented Guy d? Maupassant. Although I will not discuss anything about his stories, I agree with him and have examples of elements from other great writers in their stories that I was fond ofG20>>> . I had a ball with the usage of magical realism in "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as how Joseph Monninger used specific details and an open ending in his short story "Lunch." To begin, one characteristic used in the short story ?A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings? by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that I liked was his use of magical realism, where he combined an everyday world with extraordinary circumstances. For example, at the beginning of the story, Pelayo is on his way back to his house after throwing out crabs believed to be causing his family?s newborn to get sick. It is a dark, gloomy day, and while walking he sees something. At this point, the narrator explains, ?It was hard for him to see what it was that was moving and groaning in the rear of the courtyard. He had to go very close to see that it was an old man, a very old man, lying face down in the mud, who, in spite of his tremendous efforts, couldn?t get up, impeded by his enormous wings? (410). In this passage, the narrator explainedG31>>> what seems to be an ordinary world with Pelayo?s crab problems and a man of old age, but makes it extraordinary when Pelayo finds out the struggling old man has enormous wings. Nowhere in the passage does it say that the man is an angel. Yet becauseCG80>>> of the day being very dark, how the man just suddenly appearedG31>>> in the courtyard all of a sudden, and the wings on his back I interpreted the old man to indeed be an angel. This put me in wonder thinkingG59>>> that such an old decrepit being could be an angel, since I?veG33>>> always pictured them as young and beautiful, and even more so that it could be placed in such an un-extraordinary world. By adding these magical characteristics to an otherwise normal situation, Marquez helped me to experience the story in a feeling of wonder, therefore making it enjoyable. Yet, his short story was not the only one I wasS27>>> fond ofG20>>> . In the short story ?Lunch,? I enjoyed Joseph Monninger?s use of specific details. How precise and lifelike his accounts of events were helped me to generate a crystal clear image of exactly what was happening in the story. For instance, as the narrator begins, he introduces the fact that it is a hot day as he has arrived at a beach in Maine. What he is not expecting to see is his ex-wife, Kendra, whom he has been separated fromG20>>> for almost nine years to the very day. Yet lowCG80>>> and behold, there she is on the same exact beach, and she doesn?t appear to be alone. He goes on to explain, ?It?s July, eighty-three degrees and hazy with heat. She sits on a blanket, a wide straw hat throwing shade over her shoulders, a red Coleman cooler beside her. You see a man?s Tevas beside hers, a second dent in the blanket, a T-shirt balled as a pillow. But he?s temporarily missing, gone, maybe in swimming? (1). Right off the bat, I felt like an artist snuck into my head and painted the entir e scene in my head. The exact month, temperature, and wide-straw hat Kendra is wearing told me that it wasG31>>> a fairly hot day, good for visiting the beach. Also, he describes everything from what Kendra is sitting on