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Gabriel García Márquez's Living To Tell The Tale

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In Gabriel García Márquez's autobiography, Living to Tell the Tale, he recounts an event that happened to him as a child, and how he turned it into his short story Tuesday Siesta. Márquez was able to transform a boyhood memory into a short story by adding new perspectives, focusing on different things than what he experienced, and incorporating literary devices like flashbacks into his story. Tuesday Siesta has a third-person point of view, while Living to Tell the Tale is in a first-person point of view, from Márquez's perspective. Tuesday Siesta uses a flashback in paragraph forty-two, when describing what happened to the thief. A flashback is a literary device that helped transform Márquez's memory into a short story. Both stories, Tuesday
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