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It's a Christmas miracle for the AP classes. Following some high level discussion, the following changes are going to take place over the next four days. Today's quiz and the essay for next week are the test for Love in the Time of Cholera.There is no test next week over Love in the Time of […]
Select one of the following essay prompts, and answer it in a well-developed, grammatically flawless essay:
DUE DATE: DEC 27th, 11:59 p.m.
1. Love in the Time of Cholera opens with a suicide. Jeremiah de St.
Amour kills himself in order to escape the humiliations of aging. As he
explains to his lover, “he had made the irrevocable decision to take
his own life when he was sixty years old.” Most of the characters fear
aging. Age seems to threaten both the dignity and memories of the
characters. How does the novel both counter and exacerbate such fears?
2. Garcia-Marquez prefers to describe himself as a realist writer. Yet,
he novel is clearly not realism in the sense that Tolstoy’s work was.
As Gene H. Bell-Villada explains, “ ‘reality’ for GGM consists not only
of everyday events and economic hardships, but also of such things as
popular myths, beliefs, and home remedies—not just the facts, but what
ordinary people say or think about the facts.” What do you make of the
more hyperbolic moments in Love in the Time of Cholera, such as the
number of Florentino’s affairs and his visit to Olimpia Zuleta’s grave?
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It's a Christmas miracle for the AP classes. Following some high level discussion, the following changes are going to take place over the next four days. Today's quiz and the essay for next week are the test for Love in the Time of Cholera.There is no test next week over Love in the Time of […]
Select one of the following essay prompts, and answer it in a well-developed, grammatically flawless essay:
DUE DATE: DEC 27th, 11:59 p.m.
1. Love in the Time of Cholera opens with a suicide. Jeremiah de St.
Amour kills himself in order to escape the humiliations of aging. As he
explains to his lover, “he had made the irrevocable decision to take
his own life when he was sixty years old.” Most of the characters fear
aging. Age seems to threaten both the dignity and memories of the
characters. How does the novel both counter and exacerbate such fears?
2. Garcia-Marquez prefers to describe himself as a realist writer. Yet,
he novel is clearly not realism in the sense that Tolstoy’s work was.
As Gene H. Bell-Villada explains, “ ‘reality’ for GGM consists not only
of everyday events and economic hardships, but also of such things as
popular myths, beliefs, and home remedies—not just the facts, but what
ordinary people say or think about the facts.” What do you make of the
more hyperbolic moments in Love in the Time of Cholera, such as the
number of Florentino’s affairs and his visit to Olimpia Zuleta’s grave?
(more below)
