Ways of reading:Film,Literature and Culture

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Question 1 .In our lecture , we considered some characters in Gabriel Garcia Marquezs `A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings` as `readers` in a metaphoric sense .They may include the couple who discovered the old man , Father Gonzaga the woman who knows life and death ,and some people traveling from afar to see the old man . Cite one example to illustrate

br the relation between approaches to reading and the readers background (200 words

We had regarded as metaphoric ` readers ' some characters in Marquez 's A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings ' because they reflected or defined their respective characters , perceptions , and background , when they interacted with or , `read ' the old winged man . Like us literal readers we read ' through who he was

The couple Pelayo and Elisenda saw the old man as a foreign sailor on the mere supposition he was from a ship , but together the stupid couple ignored the old man 's wings . The couple 's reaction defined their backgrounds and character . Fr Gonzaga mirrored his dogmatist character and `readership ' when he rejected the angelhood of the man on the sheer basis that he spoke no Latin

A kind reader would have taken care of a wreck victim , but all these people were making unbelievable conclusions . The woman who saw the old man as a harbinger of death , was a `reader ' who saw the old man as a devil incarnate , out to take the life of a baby . And so were all those who came to see the old winged man in a cage `readers , too , well who saw their object of derision as a circus curiosity

These `readers ' have one thing in common - they had maximum stupidities and minimum of compassion , but as author Garcia Marquez derided them as a metaphor of the stupidity and undiscerning cruelty of mankind , they were also being defined as stupid `readers ' who failed to ` read `the miracles of the wings , the miracle of his patience , as well as all other miracles - well , the very presence of a kind , quiet old winged man

In applying the various approaches to reading , a formalist approach would possibly see through the minute linguistic indicators of the various characters , analyzing their language and the authenticity of their diction . The meanings of what they said would be subjected to formalist inter-relationships to define the precise contextual meaning

A historic approach would try to dissect the social backgrounds of the priest , and delineate the precision of his language and opinions , on the basis of other similarly situated priests , in terms of historical existence and details . In contrast , a formalist critical approach to the story would elevate the interrelationships of the texts or discourse of the various characters , interpreting them into parts of an organic whole , de-emphasizing the external facts of what period this fiction could authentically be placed or situated

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