The Autumn of The Patriarch and The General in His Labyrinth

The Autumn of The Patriarch was written in 1975. This book is about a tyrant who leaves 232 years. The format of the story is a bunch of anecdotes, which are told by a narrator whose identity is not revealed. These anecdotes are not told in a chronological order; therefore, it is not clear which anecdote comes first. It is hard for the reader to follow the design of the story. The main character is the Patriarch, who is a fearless individual, obsessed with power. The country rule by the patriarch is a Caribbean island that had been ex-colonized by the Spanish and the English. The book emphases on several tales based on his cruelty towar

In The Autumn of The Patriarch, the protagonist is the dictator. The story begins with the unearthing of the dictator’s dead body. The first chapter of the story evolves the dictator’s first death, which reveals the secret about the dictator’s double. His name is Patricio Argones, who for some time served as the second dictator in order to mislead the dictator’s enemies. The second Patriarch was an identical as the first one. They had all kinds of similarities to an extent that all the women that they got pregnant had seven-month pregnancy, which made it impossible to differentiate even their sons from each other. The only difference was in the attitude of the second patriarch, who was a kinder and nicer to people than the original Patriarch. Therefore, as the second Patriarch is assassinated the original Patriarch and used this as a scam in order to recognize the traitors. Furthermore, he murders all the individuals who celebrated his death. On the other hand, he recompenses everyone who mourns his death. One of the most ironic parts of the book is at the end of this chapter when the author describes the arrival of the Americans marines next to the three ships of Christopher Columbus.

The next part of the book deals with the love affair between Patriarch and Manuela Sanchez. Manuela had a stunning beauty, which Patriarch could not resist. The

In The General in His Labyrinth the protagonist is Simon Bolivar, who also known as the liberator of South America from Spanish oppression. The story beings as Jose Palacios who is his older and the must trusted servant helps him to take a bath of purifying waters. In the first pages its noted that the main character have physical difficulties to fulfill his normal duties. Marquez shows that the liberator’s disabilities do not come from age, but come from the fatigues of war. As the story continues, it reveals that the only trusted friend of the general is Manuela Saenz. She is the only one in charge to read to the General, since he knows he can fully trust her. Manuela plays an important role since in many occasions she has saved Bolivar on attempts on his life. The situation at the begging of the story is that Bolivar is exposed to a referendum on his mandate, which he looses. This forces him to resign and leave the country as all his dream of a South American union fall. As his last journey beings he is broke, unemployed and not as popular as he whished. Even though he knew that the same population that were driven him off owe him their freedom from the Spanish. However the only thing he could not bear was the fact that they do not wanted to have a united country.

In the other book The General in His Labyrinth was written in 1989. The theme of

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