Abuela Advents The Zero Summary

In contrast, the main difference of the two is the authors approach. “Abuela Invents the Zero” is realistic fiction, whereas “Gombei and the Wild ducks” has a literary genre of folktale. The first author, Judith Ortiz Cofer, chose to write “Abuela Invents the Zero” as a short story and is considered to have a genre of a realistic fiction. According to Cofer, “So we go to Kennedy to get la abuela and she is the last to come off the airplane…” (465). This piece of evidence shows that the story has airplanes and it is in modern times. This proves that the story has a literary genre of realistic fiction. However, the second author, Yoshiko Uchida, wrote “Gombei and the Wild ducks” as a short story that has a literary genre of folktale. According