Laura Esquirel and Gabriel García Márquez both created two different stories by using magical realism. Although they both use magical realism to write their stories, their writing styles and diction are similar yet opposite of each other.
Esquirel, the author of Like Water for Chocolate, uses mostly short and simple sentences. Her syntax allows the reader to create an image in their head of what's happening. In one scene of the book, Tita is caught in a hen hurricane. After the hurricane dies down, Márquez describes what is left, "after that fight only three chickens
remanned, plucked, bald, and one-eyed" (Márquez 218). After reading this description the reader's mind creates a picture of these torn up chickens.
Compared to Esquirel, Márquez, the author of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, uses very vivid descriptions to describe characters in his short story . One example is where he describes the Angel that's in Pelayo's yard, "... a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather... huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud" (Márquez 1). This gives you a vivid image from head to toe of the thing that dropped into the family's yard.
Overall both authoirs used a language that allowed the reader to see the image or scene that they were describing. Márquez used a more descriptive diction and syntax when writing his short story than Esquirel when she wrote her book. However, both authors were able to bring their stories to life with their syntax and diction.
Esquirel, the author of Like Water for Chocolate, uses mostly short and simple sentences. Her syntax allows the reader to create an image in their head of what's happening. In one scene of the book, Tita is caught in a hen hurricane. After the hurricane dies down, Márquez describes what is left, "after that fight only three chickens
remanned, plucked, bald, and one-eyed" (Márquez 218). After reading this description the reader's mind creates a picture of these torn up chickens.
Compared to Esquirel, Márquez, the author of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, uses very vivid descriptions to describe characters in his short story . One example is where he describes the Angel that's in Pelayo's yard, "... a few faded hairs left on his bald skull and very few teeth in his mouth, and his pitiful condition of a drenched great-grandfather... huge buzzard wings, dirty and half-plucked, were forever entangled in the mud" (Márquez 1). This gives you a vivid image from head to toe of the thing that dropped into the family's yard.
Overall both authoirs used a language that allowed the reader to see the image or scene that they were describing. Márquez used a more descriptive diction and syntax when writing his short story than Esquirel when she wrote her book. However, both authors were able to bring their stories to life with their syntax and diction.