Leaf Storm About the Author the Short

Leaf Storm

About the Author

The short story Leaf Storm is written by Gabriel Garc'a Marquez. He was born in 1928, Columbia. Being the finest man of letters of Latin America, he was regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century (Powells. Com).

As a journalist he started his writing career and later became the author of several works of fiction and nonfiction including, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. Furthermore, in 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (Powells. Com).

Overview of the Story:

Marquez's first novel Leaf Storm & Other Stories has its settings in the Macondo that was one of the wrecked and isolated places, which existed in the poverties loneliness when a company of the banana pulled up and went way (Powells. Com). This author revolves the story around the relationship between the Doctor, the Colonel, an evil foreigner and a principled man who took on himself to bury the Doctor (Powells. Com).

The Leaf Storm in its own way has portrayed respect of a far from normal and usual kind, giving a wonderful tale. The metaphors that have been given in the tale suggest are 'symbolic' one way or another and has been stated clearly. Furthermore, the texture used by author is that of the prose poem that further gives its readers the feeling as if one has come away with its fascination, which is actually the feeling of having undergo fear and thrill (Fefferman, 1995).

Analysis of the Story

The author Garc'a Marquez has given remarkable power and determination of mind and thought and wrote with the objective and purpose of the serenity of a man who knew precisely what marvel he can do as odd and surprising things happen in the land of Marquez (Literary Essays, 1979).

The main argument and purpose of Garc'a Marquez in the Leaf Storm was to explain a world that is surrounded by secrecies or mysteries that one requires and is able to live with it easily (Literary Essays, 1979). However, there exist miracles too that are not understandable to human and that spoke for forces strange to men. Thus, the short story Leaf Storm brings together both author's early as well as late styles of writing (Literary Essays, 1979).

As the story revolves during the early years of the century in a South American town, there was a retired doctor who was known as an odd completely refuses treatment to victims of a riot (Literary Essays, 1979). However, after many years he killed himself by hanging (Literary Essays, 1979).

Here for the unforgiving town, the main argument of the author was the issue as to whether the doctor will get a proper funeral or he would be left like this only to decompose in the house where he quietly killed himself. This issue thus, turns into the central and important point of memories, from many viewpoints, of remains of the doctor's strange history (Wood, 1972).

Through this character, the author tried to convince his readers as to how magic and odd things occur where a man is unable to understand the mysteries surrounding him. Thus, this old military man has been portrayed as being an originally the doctor's sponsor and host, dare the town's anger while at the same time forces his family members to assist him to perform the burial, that later ended where no one remembered the anger except from a few town officials. So the burial took place without incident (Fefferman, 1995).

Basically, the story Leaf storm is mainly the symbol for the arrival and departure of a banana company and its associates of migrants comprising the sudden appearance that alter the village of Macondo into a flourishing center, and their sudden disappearance a few years later made the town to a hot, dusty forgetfulness village (Wood, 1972).

However, the concept and idea of the author have made the leaf storm's natural force combined with lack of obvious inspiration and reason, ethics and moral, motivation or justification that discovers manifestation in the life of the doctor along with the atmospheric features that present background and settings to the drama. This makes him the center by advantage of his mysterious arrivals and departures (Fefferman, 1995).

Thus, the Leaf Storm may not much convincing to the readers as it gives a very an abstract world since in this tale, the key characters along wit the happenings of events appear and disappear with no reason, warning or explanation, just like disaster, or like the occurrence from which the author has taken the title Leaf Storm (Fefferman, 1995).