The Incredible And Sad Story: Book Review

The incredible and sad story: book review

This written work Gabriel García Márquez, tells Eréndira’s story, a 14 -year -old girl, who was in charge of her grandmother and her great house;After the death of her and her grandfather. One day Eréndira causes an accident that resulted in the incineration of the mansion. With the few salvable belongings that were left, they left that pile of ashes for the grandmother to sell the virginity of her granddaughter to a good bid. They traveled to many villages, clearly, Eréndira being many but none. Among those days of Lenocinio, a strange last boy appeared in the row, Ulysses.

Son of a Dutchman and a Guajira smugglers, he looked for the pimp to pay advanced service. It was quite late. Candida, meanwhile, was fatal, after her overwhelming day, so the grandmother refused to the boy’s request. Already in the early morning Ulysses received Eréndira’s service until dawn;She victimize the virginity of Ulysses she enjoyed those moments, truly loving him unlike the many men she had been with, despite her young age.

Not only the boy was something unusual, but also his family. They cultivated oranges which had diamonds inside. Ulysses stole a few, stole his father’s truck and led to the carp of the sexual alcahuete, with the firm purpose of escaping with the exploited girl. They escaped, but unfortunately it was not for a long time;He betrayed them, the feathers of the birds that he carried in the Ulises truck, which his father recognized, accompanied by the grandmother, in addition to soldiers.

Thus they managed to catch the fugitives.

On the part of the grandmother, Eréndira was tied to bed to be raped by the men who paid her family "great". “Eréndira could not escape from the scorn because it was prevented by the dog chain with which the grandmother chained her of a crossbar from the bed since she tried to escape.". Ulysses decided to look for her, loved each other again, and determined to kill grandmother tested with poison, then explosives and finally stabbing her. Eréndira took the vest with the gold bars from the old woman’s body. Leaving Ulysses to be caught by Indians.

The story is based on prostitution, different characters reveal us a different perspective of that trade, it can be seen as an aberration, the satisfaction of pleasures, a "gold mine", redemption for the damages caused or an unimaginable torture. Some of the curious perspectives is that of the grandmother, to which the description of heartless is doing very well. Being a prostitute withdrawal, delirium for its years of activity and tormentous memories, it is able to subdue its granddaughter to such work, in order to recover their luxuries, allowing men to abuse it for a good price, in shortEvidence from the beginning of history, Eréndira is not seen as a granddaughter but as a personal servant.

To this point comes the cruelty of her grandmother that the granddaughter is contaminated from her, leaves Ulysses at the mercy of the Indians, the violent death of the old woman does not disturb her, Ulysses’s frustrated attempts to kill the "whale", andThey do no more but disturb her, so he wishes with all his strength his freedom. Another aspect present in the characteristic story of Márquez’s writing is the essence of magical realism, such as oranges with diamonds inside, the huge force of some suitors of grandmother’s past, green blood, immunity to poison,Angelic aura of Ulysses, the long lines of desperate men to intimate.