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Beginning: •Gabriel Garcia Marquez is known as one of the most significant writers in the 20th century. •He was born March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Colombia. •He started out as a journalist, studying at the National University of Colombia. •I read Love in the Time of Cholera and Chronicle of Death Foretold. •Characterization, Dialogue, Thoughts, Realism

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End: •I did enjoy reading from this author, because I've never read his style of writing from any of the more recent writers. His writing is really detailed and specific, also the story flows very naturally. •Any questions?

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Middle: •His parents fell in love and their relationship was not approved by his father's father. Over time Marquez's father wooed his mother through violin serenades, love poems and countless letters. --This was the inspiration for Love in the Time of Cholera.

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•Gabriel's parents were strangers to him for the first few years of his life. His grandparents were the ones that influenced him the most. His grandfather was a Liberal veteran of the Thousand Days War. He, the Colonel, was considered a hero by Colombian Liberals. Also, Gabriel described him as an "umbilical cord with history and reality." --His literary works are known for being very bound in realism and this was one of the things that influence it.

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•His grandmother inspired him; by the way she "treated the extraordinary as something perfectly natural." --She was "the source of the magical, superstitious and supernatural view of reality" also the way she told stories were she delivered them to be the absolute truth, no matter how unrealistic they seemed. This influenced all his literary works, but mostly One Hundred Years of Solitude.

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•I learned that it is better to keep your mind in the real world. --"...floating in the dazzling backwater they had found on the other side of the fear." (Marquez 70) Chronicle of Death Foretold •A good judge of a person is their character. --"seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter" (Marquez 100) Love in the Time of Cholera

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