The colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one little spoonful left. Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing... more
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Advantages: Great Writing Disadvantages: Depressing
...censorship took over people's lives. No wonder he wrote this book in France, and he hasn't returned in many years. Nobody writes to the colonel (el coronel no tiene le escriba) is a thing much associated to this book. Every week or so, he goes to the ports to see if he has post. Every time he goes, he never has any luck getting post, and he always is embarrassed for the fact that he still hopes he will be sent a letter regarding his war pension.
... ...She is ashamed of her lifestyle, she wants her husband to get his pension, although she is sure it won't happen, she doesn't believe that 'el gallo' is doing them any good. She has bad asthma, although her doctor (el medico) says it isn't as bad as she thinks.
The couple live only in memory of their son. He had looked after them for many years, and his death only happened a couple of years before the start of the book. ‘El Medico’, when he appears, ...
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No One Writes to the Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Main specs
Type: Fiction
Genre: Modern Fiction
Title: No One Writes to the Colonel
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ISBN: 0140037764; 0141032537; 0224005308
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The colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one little spoonful left. Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the General's aging heart. For fifteen years he's watched the mail launch come into harbour, hoping he'll be handed an envelope containing the army pension promised to him all those years ago. Whilst he waits for the cheque, his hopes are pinned on his prize bird and the upcoming cockfighting season. But until then the bird - like the Colonel and his wife - must somehow be fed...
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