Look up the definition of magical realism and you’ll read that it is a type of a gender. It is where the author writes magic elements that go with the everyday life of the characters in the book. In “Like water for chocolate” by Laura Esquivel and “The very old man with enormous wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez the authors focused more on magical realism than any other literally gender. These two literally pieces are the most known novels that have magical realism throughout the whole story. They share that in common but they are very different in many ways.
During the whole book Laura Esquivel used taste more than any other sensory detail. I think the reason behind using taste so much, is mainly because the book main thing is about the recipes. I could name many examples but the one that has stuck out to me was at Pedros and Rosaura matrimony ceremony; it goes to show how by just tasting the cake the guest had a range of emotions that made them cry for their lost loves, also causing the death Nacha. And then we have the short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who used very descriptive language, he, unlike Esquivel, was more upfront with his words. Albeit he was upfront with his words, he used very good descriptions to describe what was going on in the story, like take for example when he was describing the way they sky looked during the storm.
These two authors both have different ways they communicate to the reader. While Marquez uses more of a formal language, Esquivel uses more informal than anything. If you look at the writing, you can see clearly that Marquez uses more of an “intellectual” and sophisticated diction, for example using the words: magnanimous, and frivolity and then we have Laura that makes the reader feel like they are reading a diary that they found somewhere. Marquez makes his sentences longer and drawn out compared to Laura Esquivel that makes her sentences as short as possible.
In “Like water for chocolate” the setting is obviously placed in Mexico. Being placed in Mexico it has great effects on what happens throughout the story and then in “The very old man” the setting isn’t clear enough to guess where it is set in. These two stories also have different ways to present their characters, Esquivel she makes the reader learn more of the characters throughout each chapter and Marquez doesn’t expand on how the characters are like and how they are in their everyday life. Marquez and Esquivel have same genders but with slight differences, that’s why they are both so great.
During the whole book Laura Esquivel used taste more than any other sensory detail. I think the reason behind using taste so much, is mainly because the book main thing is about the recipes. I could name many examples but the one that has stuck out to me was at Pedros and Rosaura matrimony ceremony; it goes to show how by just tasting the cake the guest had a range of emotions that made them cry for their lost loves, also causing the death Nacha. And then we have the short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who used very descriptive language, he, unlike Esquivel, was more upfront with his words. Albeit he was upfront with his words, he used very good descriptions to describe what was going on in the story, like take for example when he was describing the way they sky looked during the storm.
These two authors both have different ways they communicate to the reader. While Marquez uses more of a formal language, Esquivel uses more informal than anything. If you look at the writing, you can see clearly that Marquez uses more of an “intellectual” and sophisticated diction, for example using the words: magnanimous, and frivolity and then we have Laura that makes the reader feel like they are reading a diary that they found somewhere. Marquez makes his sentences longer and drawn out compared to Laura Esquivel that makes her sentences as short as possible.
In “Like water for chocolate” the setting is obviously placed in Mexico. Being placed in Mexico it has great effects on what happens throughout the story and then in “The very old man” the setting isn’t clear enough to guess where it is set in. These two stories also have different ways to present their characters, Esquivel she makes the reader learn more of the characters throughout each chapter and Marquez doesn’t expand on how the characters are like and how they are in their everyday life. Marquez and Esquivel have same genders but with slight differences, that’s why they are both so great.