No One Writes To The Colonel By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Part I of Essay
Suppression of Pride In a state of martial law one individual does not have much to say. This statement holds true in the novel, "No One Writes to the Colonel," by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The author discusses the political climate of one man, the Colonel, who after fightin ....

Part II of Essay
.... to avoid a demonstration and possibly a riot, reroutes his funeral procession to avoid the police barracks. Since the musician is a first to have died of natural causes, we can assume that martial law has resulted in the untimely death of many people. Another example is the death of the Colonel's son, Agustin, Whom after his death has become the embodiment of the underground. It is rightly so, being that he was the writer of the "clandestine" papers. "'Agustin wrote.' The Colonel observed the deserted street. 'What does he ....