DIDACTIC CARTOGRAPHY

ANALYSIS OF THE STORY

ONE OF THESE DAYS
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
1. TITLE: One of these days

 What does the title suggest?

It is explicit, open, it suggests telling an event

 Syntax: it is understandable
 Polysemy: yes, it can suggest many meanings
 External anchor: Yes, it has to do with reality.
 How does it relate to the rest of the story?

The title is not related

 Internal anchoring: These are the events that occur in an everyday

day.

2. HOME

 What is the function of the start?

 It is explicit, to express something or rather to describe the place
where the events occur.
 Length and narrative functions

Yes, it has functionality, there are words like dentist, teeth, tooth that
extend throughout the story.

 Is there a relationship between the beginning and the end?

 There is no relationship, since the beginning begins by describing the
day in a metaphorical way and describing the objects of the place
and ends in a direct, precise and rough way.
 Predestination intrigue: announcement of the end

No, because of the resistance that the dentist had at the beginning
3. NARRATOR

 From what perspective (temporal, spatial, ideological) is it narrated?

- Temporal: present time

- Spatial: in a dental office

- Ideological: story of a fact

 Syntax: there is coordination of the text, the time in which the

actions are narrated is present
 Distance: it is being narrated in third person
 Perspective:

- Internal: the narrator does not mix in the text

- External: the narrator is recounting the events, it is objective that he does

not interfere with the actions.

 Focus: The place, characters, actions and reactions are mentioned

and the exact date and geographical location are omitted.
 Tone: intimate

4. CHARACTERS

 Who are the characters?

The mayor, the dentist, and the dentist's son

 Flat characters:

- Archetypes: the characters and their actions are the same

- Stereotypes: the thinking that exists in the mayor-municipality

relationship

 Protagonists: the mayor

 Internal conflict: the dentist did not want to treat the mayor
 External conflict: opposition between the characters
 Psychological dimension: his professional ethics inspired him to
carry out his work as a dentist, although he did not like it
 Doppelganger: Does not have
5. LANGUAGE

 What is the language of the story like? Descriptive

 Conventionality: Traditional language
 Figures:

- Irony: When the dentist asks who does the bill go to?

- Metaphor: when describing Monday

- Metonymy: mayor – municipality

 Relationships: There was tension on the part of the mayor and the
dentist, there was contradiction on the part of the dentist since he did
not want to treat him
 Games

- Polysemy: when the dentist opens the drawer where he had the
revolver, he presents us with an event that can change history .

-Paradox: “Here he pays us twenty dead, lieutenant” with this phrase the
author creates a paradox between the pain of the mayor and that of the
people.

6. SPACE

 Where does the story take place?

Dental office

 Determination: degree of precision of the physical space

It happens in the dentist's chair

 How important are space and objects?

For the text, they are the setting of the story and the basis for its
development, which is why each element is fundamental for the author
and his autonomy.

 Referential space: Ideological dimension of the chronotope

It occurs in the dental office, especially in the dentist's chair

Displacements: significance of narrative development

 The story is narrated in the third person, pointing out the places and
instruments used.

 Objects: Description and effect of reality

The author shows his autonomy by describing each object that the
character uses

7. TIME

 When does what is narrated occur? In one day, present tense

 Chronotope referential time

The reference we have regarding time is that the events happen in an

almost immediate period of time, they are not prolonged, they happen at
the same time, which is the present, in this case in one day.

 What is the sequence of the events narrated?

It begins with a description of the objects and the place where the story
takes place, continues with a dialogue between the characters where their
actions and reactions are narrated, and ends with a somewhat rude and
strong farewell.

 Sequential time: Casual, logical and chronological verisimilitude

The events are narrated in a logical and chronological way of time, which
gives us a perception of the plausibility of the events.

 How is the story told?

The story is narrated in the third person, more than all the narrator's speech
emphasizes the description of the environment and the characters' actions
and how they react to it.

 diegetic time

The story is told in dialogues between the characters

Grammatical tense: present

 Psychological time: the mayor's discomfort due to his toothache and the
dentist's attitude of denial upon arrival at the office
 Writing time: a few hours
 Reading time: fifteen minutes

8. GENDER

 What is the genre to which the text belongs? Narrative

 Conventional structures: everyday life
 Modalities: ironic

9. INTERTEXTUALITY
 Strategies: dialogue as the basis of the text Gabriel García Márquez,
like Anton Chekhov in his story Surgery, uses this figure to
contextualize his texts.
- Allusion: both in Surgery and in One of These Days the topic of
molar pain is explicitly worked on, where each author separately
focuses their ideas in their own language.
 Intercoding: does not have
 Hybrids: liminality, is a text written in prose, the dialogues are
coherent and explicit that involve the reader in a narrative pact that
deepens as the story is read.
 Are there subtexts?
 Themes: the author takes us to the context of the work, covering
molar pain and, ironically, to everyday life when the dentist asks
who he is giving the bill to .

10. END

The ending is paradoxical

11. AUTHOR

 Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

He was born on March 6, 1928 in a small town on the Atlantic coast of

Colombia called Aracataca (Magdalena). He is raised by his grandparents;
He attends the San José de Barranquilla School. After finishing high school
he began to write a novel that he initially titled "The House" (At this time
he read Kafka and Joyce).

Then he traveled to Cartagena where he entered the Faculty of Law

and Political Sciences at the National University of Bogotá. He publishes
his first story in El Espectador, "The Third Resignation." He left his law
career and began his career in journalism. He works at the newspaper El
Universal. He publishes "Eva is inside her cat", "Tubal-Caín forges a star",
"The other rib of death" in El Espectador.

After several works that he published in the different newspapers

where he worked, he published his first novel: “La Hojarasca” in 1955.
This was followed by a book of stories, “The Funerals of Big Mama” in
1961. But his literary consecration occurred with "One Hundred Years of
Solitude" with which he won the Nobel Prize in 1982. In 1957, he finished
writing "The Colonel Has No One to Write to Him." For Márquez the years
between 1961 and 1965 are a period of literary silence, but in January 1965
he decided to return to literature; which is why he locks himself in to write
the novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

This one becomes very successful and proof of this is that this first
edition sells out in a few days. The critics are delirious with enthusiasm and
the fame of the book soon transcends the borders of the language, which is
why foreign publishers begin to dispute it.

He published in 1970, "The story of a shipwrecked man", a

compilation of reports that appeared in El Espectador in 1955. He also
published the story "A very old man with enormous wings" in Cuadernos
Hispanoamericanos, Madrid. It is important to remember that in 1977, the
United States recognized Panama's sovereignty over the Canal; Torrijos-
Carter treaty. In this year, 1978, Gabriel García Márquez is invited to
Washington for the signing of the Treaty. In 1984, he published the article:
"How do you write a novel?"

In 1985, he became even more known for his novel "Love in the Time
of Cholera." In 1991 it led to the publication of "Twelve pilgrim stories."
His last novel was “News of a Kidnapping” which seems more like a
journalistic account and for this reason it has left a small void for its
readers.

After the journey we have made, with this reading, through the career
of this great writer we can draw conclusions about the reason for his fame
and renown.

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