Analysis of Tuesday Siesta: Mother's Determination & Social Differences, Esquemas y mapas conceptuales de Inglés

¡Descarga Analysis of Tuesday Siesta: Mother's Determination & Social Differences y más Esquemas y mapas conceptuales en PDF de Inglés solo en Docsity! Angela Vargas English 1 Unit 1: Short Stories Project February 21th, 2021 Tuesday Siesta literary analysis For this Unit project, I decided to choose Tuesday Siesta as the short story to analyze today. The story starts with the introduction of two characters a mother and her twelve-year-old daughter, both traveling on a train to a very hot town. They make the trip at siesta time. The woman and the girl were in search of the body of her son, that was killed for stealing. The author of this story is Gabriel Garcia Marquez a Colombian writer, born in Aracataca on March 6, 1928, and died on April 17, 2014, in Mexico City, Mexico. With the publication of; One Hundred Years of Solitude; (1967), Gabriel García Márquez became one of the most outstanding Latin American personalities of his time. In 1982 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. (Echevarría, Brittanica, 2021) The story presents the character of a mother, as a strong character, with a dominant attitude, calm and well-determined. Although from a low social class, she maintains her posture and pride. She is self-respecting and under control in any situation. She is on a mission and is determined to accomplish it without interruption or delay as she demanded to her daughter: “You’d better close the window,” the woman said. “Your hair will get full of soot.” The girl tried to, but the shade wouldn’t move because of the rust. (Márquez, 1962, p.122) “If you feel like doing anything, do it now,” said the woman. “Later, don’t take a drink anywhere even if you’re dying of thirst. Above all, no crying.” The girl nodded her head. (Márquez, 1962, p.123) Another important character during the story is the priest. He is seen, as a person with a cold attitude, unwilling to help a woman who has suffered a loss. The only thing he does is offer her an umbrella to cover her from the sun to avoid being inattentive. He is somewhat lazy the reason, for this may be the temperature in the village and the predisposition to know the relationship of the visitors with the deceased thief: “The priest looked at her, then looked at the woman, and then through the wire mesh of the window at the bright, cloudless sky. “In this heat,” he said. “You could have waited until the sun went down.” (Márquez, 1962, p.125) “God’s will be inscrutable,” said the father. But he said it without much conviction, partly because experience had made him a little skeptical and partly because of the heat. He suggested that they cover their heads to guard against sunstroke. (Márquez, 1962, p.127) The story shows a mood of resignation. From part of the mother for what occurred to her son and rejection of the neighbors. The story shows that the incident may have been caused by social differences due to the necessity to eat: “The priest sighed. “Didn’t you ever try to get him on the right track?” The woman answered when she finished signing. “He was a very good man.” The woman continued in the same tone: “I told him never to steal anything that anyone needed to eat, and he minded me. On the other hand, before, when he used to box, he used to spend three days in bed, exhausted from being punched.” (Márquez, 1962, p.126) She looked silently at the father. “What was it?” he asked. “The people have noticed,” murmured his sister “You’d better go out by the door to the patio,” said the father. “It’s the same there,” said his sister. “Everybody is at the windows.” (Márquez, 1962, p.127) The imaginary of the story is well defined. There are a lot of references to the extreme heat in Macondo. A lot of visual imagery. For example: