Literacy Techniques In Letícia Ucha

How would one be expected to react to the body of an unknown man that washes along the side of the beach or watching the child that you raised and love fall to their death. Brazilian author Letícia Ucha writes in her short story about the average family going about their normal everyday morning routine. One day during breakfast José the father broke the morning silence and began discussing the towns problem with a graffiti gang. Later that night Lucas, the son of José meets with the group of graffiti vandals for yet another competition. During the climb of the building one of the rooms was vacant with a romantic aroma. The man inside the room rushes toward the window with a racquet in his hand, the wind blows the curtains and the man then sees
In Letícia Ucha's story she makes it simple and plain that doesn’t have a lot of detail which makes her story short and to the point. By Ucha making her story the way she did she doesn’t allow the readers to connect with the characters and give the readers a chance to fully know who the characters are. At the end of the short story the audience finds out that Lucas the son of José is involved with the graffiti gang member but the audience doesn’t fully get to know why he's involved with such poor behavior. Ucha created her story to be full is dialog without too many details of the characters so the audience knows little about them and then cuts the story short at the climax piece of the story. Gabriel Garcia Márquez a Colombian journalist known for his fiction work introduced all his readers to what's called magical realism, which combines more conventional storytelling with vivid fantasy. So used to the idea of creating a story from his own vivid creativity creating details of a character or a place was no problem for Márquez, he uses lots of detail and allows the readers to connect with what's happening in the story. Márquez describes every detail of how the unknown man was found along side of the villages beach and all the possibilities of how he could have ended up there. Márquez later describes the physical features of the man so the reader is able to understand what makes him so handsome and why the man could have caused him to drown himself. Márquez also goes about discribing the thought process the villagers had about getting rid of the man's body. With Márquez describing all the details within the short story the reader is fully able to understand the surrounds and issues taking place with each