Latin American Judgment

Judgment is atrocious. Judgment is stifling. Latin Americans cannot fix the conflicts of their past due to their hasty decisions. Latin Americans feel isolated from their freedom. Europe views Latin America negatively. Solitude is the state of being alone; it can be interpreted as a positive or negative connotation. The famous speech, “The Solitude of Latin America” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez incorporates a negative connotation of solitude. In “The Solitude of Latin America”, Marquez illuminates the metaphor solitude is judgment throughout his speech and his famous magical realism story, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings.” Marquez conveys solitude as ostracism. Europeans misunderstands Latin Americans because of their horrific past. For example, Marquez strongly believes “Those clear-sighted Europeans who struggle, here as well, for a more just humane homeland, could help us far better if they reconsider their way of seeing us” (Marquez 2). In other words, Europeans could help Latin Americans if they change their way of thinking. They only look at Latin Americans in one particular way because

For instance, Marquez emphasizes, “Before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop.”(Marquez 1) Marquez relocates the angel to the chicken coop with hens without knowing who he really is on the inside. Angels are not supposed to be kept in a chicken coop. He was judged by his appearance. Marquez also magnifies, “Elisenda… got the idea of fencing in the yard and charging five cents admission to the angel.”(Marquez 2) Elisenda and Pelayo were cramming their rooms with money. They only kept the angel because of the wealth they were receiving out of the angel. The angel was mistreated by Pelayo and Elisenda When in reality an angel represents good