Treasure Hunts
Who is Gabriel García
Márquez?
Introduction | Guiding Question | Questions | Internet Resources
Introduction
The author
of the next book we will read, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, is Gabriel
García Márquez who was born
in Colombia. Winner of the 1982 Nobel prize for literature, Márquez is
considered to be one of the pioneers of "Magic Realism." The world of
his fiction is a realm where the strange and the exotic become comfortably
familiar and the borders between life and death mix.
Before we enter the magically
real world of Márquez, you are going on a
fact-finding mission on the Internet to learn about Márquez
and his "real world" life. The questions below will guide you on your
mission and help you answer the big question: What is the difference between
what is real and what is magic in Gabriel García Márquez' fiction? Good luck!
Guiding
Question
Your challenge
is to come up with an answer to the question: What is the difference between
what is real and what is magic in Gabriel García Márquez' fiction? How does Gabriel García
Márquez use truth in his fiction? Is he a character
in his own work? Where are most of his stories set? Where does his
"magic" come from?
Questions
- Where was the author born?
- Who raised him?
- Who ruled the country when Márquez
was growing up?
- What did he study at school?
- What job did he do after his schooling?
- Why did he start writing novels?
- What is Márquez' native
language?
- What novel brought him international success?
- What is the definition (in your own words) of magic
realism?
- What religion do most Colombians practice?
- What is machismo?
- What is the ethnic composition of Colombia?
- Where is Macondo?
- What true story inspired Chronicle of a Death
Foretold?
- What is irony?
- What is a chronicle?
- What does it mean that a death is foretold?
- Why would Gabriel García Márquez choose a journalist as the narrator of this
story?
Internet Resources
Sharon Tehan,
Teacher, developed this web hunt.
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