Week 5, Post #1

Marquez's message is most like Toni Morrison's in Love. Both the books play on the importance of love as a cohesive tactic. Florentino loves Fermina and that is one thing that holds him in place. He stays in the same town and lives always with the Love of Fermina keeping himself in place. In Love, Morrison also showed how the love between Heed and Christine carried through the terrible fights that they had for all of those years only to have them stick together until the end. Both Marquez and Morrison pick similar ideas in conveying their message. Both of them rely heavily on description.

I also find that Marquez and Morrison to be easily compared because I don't find either of the books particularly enjoyable.