Tuesday Siesta And One Of These Days Essay

By writing the fictional short stories, “Tuesday Siesta” and One of These Days”, Gabriel Garcia Marquez magical realism by placing various types of imagery and hints on important events that are occurring in his hometown of “La Violencia”. Marquez does this by placing his story in a fictional town, called Macondia in Columbia and combining a fictional story with a hidden meaning. In doing this he manipulates imagery to first establish magical realism and the he also adds “unrelated accidents” that then correlate with the war (Marquez 459). Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses imagery to develop magical realism by expressing ideas that coincide with a different idea in which each idea branches off another.

In “Tuesday Siesta”, Marquez expresses imagery
In which the dentist tries to get revenge on the mayor for “twenty dead men”. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez 2). Although the mayor has a higher power than him. Marquez asserts, “It has to be without anesthesia,” He said.” Because you have an abscess.” The dentist says this is the reason, but in reality it is not. The dentist inflicts pain on the mayor, but doesn’t really do anything extreme enough to have an impact on the situation or claim revenge for what is going on in the government. At the end, “Send the bill,” he said. To you or the or the town?” The mayor didn’t look at him..It's the same damn thing.” (Marquez 465). This highlights that the government is using the town's money for personal use while the town suffers. This also reevaluates the reason the dentist doesn’t have a decent looking office. Gabriel Garcia Alvarez endorses imagery to reinforce magical realism by using the symbolic metaphor of a dentist and prude mayor to compare how the government of “La Violencia” is denying its people proper rights. In other words the selfishness and taking money for unjust reasons that doesn’t have a positive impact on the town's