Sunday, October 17, 2010
"Eva Is Inside of Her Cat"
In this short story, a young lady upset with her physical appearance takes her own life. One would think she took her life, becasue she was ugly, but Eva was a very beautiful. She took her own life, because she hated that, because she was good looking she could not meet a guy for the right reasons or be taken seriously by people in general. Eva took her life to escape from her curse of beauty. However, once she was dead she found herself trapped in an even worse position than she was in while she was alive. Her situation reminds me of Marquez's home country, Colombia. It is like a metaphor for the country and the war it is going through. While she wanted to try and escape from her unfortunate situation, she found hrself trapped in an even worse situation for eternity.
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Bet you did not think that I was still following your blog. I offer one comment -- be specific. At the end you stop before you let the reader know about that 'worse' situation that she is now trapped in. I have not read this particular Marquez story. Even so, specifying the worse situation would not give away too much, in my opinion.
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