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Narrative A: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The crossing of a conceptual border between the present moment and the memory of the past.

Narrative B: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children

The alterity of the protagonist, Saleem Sinai, in the way he manages to represent the entirety of India within his individual self.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a captivating way of crossing the conceptual border of time. Garcia Marquez toggles between the past and the present referencing the history of the families, the town, and the war. Marquez' work reflects how history repeats itself: with the same reappearing names and the events that take place, the reader is incapable of identifying the concept of time. Instead, the past, present, and the future collide and coincide to create a new reality from the perspective of the protagonist. This defiance of a conceptual border allows the magical realism to surround the reader and force them to question whether time is really just a concept, and if the endings of these stories are the same regardless of "time".

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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children effectively employs alterity as a literary device, which allows the reader to visualize the cultural and religious clash in postcolonial India. Through the use of alterity, the protagonist's feelings, thoughts, and visions come to life - giving the reader both an inside look and an outside look on reality. Saleem, born with super powers, alien to the rest, is sensitive and hyper-aware of his surroundings. The author's use of alterity of this protagonist allows the reader to be captivated in the unique perspective of this self-aware alien. Saleem's narrative allows a close and "outsider-looking-in" accounts of India's struggles in the transformation from colonial to postcolonial India.

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Magical Realism Example (telepathy)

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Rich (Saleem) v. Poor (Shiva)

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Hindu vs. Muslim

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UK Colonial rule vs. Independent India

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https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/opinion/history-repeats-itself.html

https://quotefancy.com/quote/1217921/Erin-Gruwell-Silence-ensures-that-history-repeats-itself

https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/h/history_repeats_itself.asp

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Opinion | History Repeats Itself (Published 2014)

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Putin presides over a one-nation Yalta conference.