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A Lost Cause

Parks
English 101-104
Professor Storch
9 February 2001
A Lost Cause
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in South America a poor inner city child. He had only his perseverance to be educated which
enabled him to escape the slums and become a world-renowned writer. His writing was different than most other native writers during
this time period because he utilized the literary technique known as magical realism, and he perfected this style in his short stories.
Magical realism is the literary process by which fictional material is made believable, and imagery amid descriptive detail are essential in
using this technique to make a story and its characteristics convincing. In his short story, ”A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings",
Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses magical realism to create a believable setting and a creditable earthly angel.
Magical realism and imagery are used by Marquez to build a plausible sett...

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