Gabriel Garcia Marquez Identity Quotes

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I feel like his identity is incomplete. I think that what finally shaped him into his true self was the fact that he got his second chance to save his little brother. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “ Love in the Time of Cholera” describes the narrator's mission to save his brother from a world of drugs and imminent death and in the end while he helped his brother find who he was he also found out about himself. “She said: ‘ It is as if he were not a person but only a shadow,”(Marquez 204). This is a loose quote but basically it means that the narrator always felt kind of lost and confused until he finds his mission. He was but another person just going through the motions in his set time and staying in his place. His recovering drug-addict little