Creative, Individual Title (Centered)
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Essay Prompt: “Innovative narrative technicians”
As a literary movement, the 1960s Boom sparked commercial global success for many Latin American authors. Magical realism, historical fiction, and a wide variety of narrative techniques are some of the characteristics borne out of the time. Often, Gabriel García Márquez is seen as the face of both the Boom and of the aesthetic, magical realism. However, his peer writers are as experimental and as highly regarded for their non-traditional story structures, use of character, plot, figurative language (symbols, allusions, metaphors, imagery), and theme.
For this essay, you are going to compare the narrative techniques used by three authors in three separate stories. Rather than try to retell each story, you must select a smaller passage as evidence from each of the stories you can argue represents their individual writing style, but also shows some overlap.
Sidenotes | Critical Thinking
1. What makes up an aesthetic/writing style? DO NOT ADDRESS ALL OF THESE, but center on 1 to 2 elements per author and describe their specific style:
Prose style, including syntax, language choices, etc.
Narrator point of view, including transitions/leaps
Characterization
Plot structure, including time and details/lack of
Themes
Topical interests/Subject matter
2. What thematic messages do you take away from each author’s work? What kinds of obsessions do you think they have as writers, subject wise? What statements do their works seem to make?
3. What seems unexpected or abnormal about the way they structure a story from what we typically read?
Below I attached the files of all the poems and extra files needed!
