Saturday, January 7, 2017
One of These Days by Gabriel Marquez
In Gabriel Marquezs twaddle One of These old ageÂ, the author portrays a tooth doctor and a mayor in a corrupt due s bulgeh America (circa 1960). Aurelio Escavar, a clean, humble, and experient dentist all the same without a professional diploma. The city manager, however, is a dead aggressive, oppressive, and creator abusive person. The story begins with the Dentist refusing to let the mayor enter his office, then the city manager threatening to shoot him, and finally the Dentist pulling out the mayors tooth without anesthesia due to the detail that he hates the city manager with a passion. During the debut of the story, the reader would bet that the musical composition of the story is the power of hate, but through compend they would realize that the true theme is the contribution that the mood, setting, and structure correspond in creating stress in all aspects of the story.\nFirstly, the mood prepares tension in the story. In fact, a negative mood is created at the beginning of the story. Imagine the Mayor of your town in scarecrow of some dentists office shouting, If you dont lift out out my tooth, Ill shoot you! Â (Page 108) It powerfulness seem like a typical joke, but in reality it is not. The author intensify this negative mood by using a dangerous and morbid style of theme which lacked humor and irony.\nSecondly, the structure as well as creates tension in the story. By the use of small precise sentences, the author gives the reader contain information. This is a good technique because it can even create tension inside the readers idea that is trying to reflect on what is happening. Gabriel Marquez did not give the Mayor any(prenominal) name, just a title! There is no need to name the Mayor since he is recognized by his title and his attitude, he is the maestro man with power and ammunition and he could be any Latin American in the 1960s with power and superiority. The above adds to the figure of tension in the story, yet the Author adds something else: ending this miserable precise story unawares after the clima...
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