Comparing the Train in The South and One Hundred Years of Solitude :: comparison compare contrast essays

In One Hundred Years of loneliness by Gabriel Garca Mrquez and The reciprocal ohm by Jorge Luis Borges, many identical devices ar wontd by the authors. Their presentations and their uses are sometimes similar and at times dissimilar. There is one device that is used by some(prenominal) authors that is one of the most prominent devices in both works--the train. The presentation and use of the train in both texts is different, but in both it is a method of transportation and an evil entity that is an active symbol of change. Juan Dahlmann, the protagonist in Borges The South, cuts his forehead on the edge of a recently multi-colored door and is poisoned. He is taken to a sanitarium where he makes a gradual recovery. After his release, Dahlmann takes a train to his ranch in the South for further recuperation. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the train is brought in by Aureliano Triste, a son of Colonel Aureliano Buenda, when his ice business outgrows the local market. With t he culmination of the train, Macondo experiences verily linked to the outside world. The train in The South is presented as a sleek, mystical, and evil entity. Before Dahlmann leaves for his ranch, he visits a caf where there is a black roam, sleeping. It is almost as if it is lying in waiting for something. The cat is described as the magical animal(1). Immediately following is a description of the train, which is described as being lying waiting. A company between the mystical animal and the mechanical train has been established. The train has become a mystical beast. It begins to move when Dahlmann gets on, it stops to let him off, it takes him where it feels. The beast decides Dahlmanns fate. Cats are often seen as beasts of evil omen. The linking of cat and train brings an evil grammatical construction to the train. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the train is presented as concrete and real, but terrifying and with a malevolent, living connection the snake. There is no mystical imagery and sleekness surrounding it. Instead, its plain and simple, just the flower-bedecked train.(2) The root Macondian to see it describes it as something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a colony behind it.(3) The train has a whistle with a fearful peal and a loud, panting toom-toom(4) The train is very much like a snake, a symbol of evil.