Femino

Poverty
Through the authors’ use of figurative language and juxtaposition of diction Gabriel García Marquez and Juan Rulfo shows that poverty is inescapable and forces children to grow into adultsin a world full of grief, sadness and death.

1.”They were the only passengers in the lone third class car”100
“She bore the conscientious serenity of someone accustomed to poverty”100
They sat inthe lowest class for a train ride and was the beginning hint that they were poor
“and took and equal portion out of the plastic sack for herself.)100
“it began raining like never before” (Rulfo 25)rain symbolizes the sadness in the town

2."If you feel like doing anything, do it now," said the woman. "Later, don't take a drink anywhere even if you're dying of thirst. Above all, no crying"Young Girl had to hold in her emotions be strong like her mother (could not be a crying child)101

3."I told him never to steal anything that anyone needed to eat, and he minded me. On the otherhand, before, when he used to box, he used to spend three days in bed, exhausted from being punched" 105
“All his teeth had to be pulled out” interrupted the girl. 105
girl intervenes in adultconversation
Boxing symbolized Carlos’ way for escaping poverty the same way Tacha’s cow served as an escape and hope for a prominent future. Carlos took on the male role because the father was absent(source of income). Young boy became the male role because the source of income was gone (Tacha’s cow)

“Because we are so poor” Might either do both stories in one essay or one
“My father say theywent bad because we were poor in my house and they were very wild”
“I put my arms around her trying to comfort her, but she doesn’t understand”
signals transformation that the young boy has grown up“Streams of dirty water run down her face as if the river had gotten inside her”
use of simile shows that stagnant river that took Tacha’ hope (literally the cow) runs through her body and in a...