Maricela FregosoApril 23, 2014Michelle RisdonEnglish 103Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez also known as Gabo was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Colombia. As the eldest of elven siblings, García Márquez lived with his maternal grandparents until the age of eight, when his grandfather died. He had learned many things from his grandparents. Both were living storytellers. His grandmother had taught him folk tales, superstitions, dead ancestors and ghosts. While his grandfather had enriched him with stories about the two Colombian civil conflicts he had fought. García Márquez was very studious, although his parents resisted the idea of ​​him pursuing a career as a journalist. He enrolled at the National University of Colombia in Bogota, where he pursued a legal career. After the assassination of a member of a liberal party, a civil war known as "La Violencia" broke out. This civil war cost the lives of more than three thousand people and forced a million people to flee neighboring countries. The National University of Colombia was forced to close its doors due to the civil conflict. García Márquez moves to continue his law studies at the University of Cartagena. There he began writing short stories and journalism articles, forgetting his legal career. He soon became familiar with numerous literary works which would later influence his work. In 1952, he published La Hojarasca or The Leaf Storm, a short story widely criticized for being too strongly influenced by William Falkner. Shortly after, he returned to Bogota where he found work as a journalist and film critic. García Márquez "used his position to denounce the ineptitude and corruption of the government." He is soon publishing The History of Sh...... in the middle of paper ......ude we will be able to explain to you what is now magical to us. active against the dictatorship on the run for exile from repressive governments Lisa Goodman journalist of “the literature that has shaped, not only in Latin America” Allende adds “[i]n the world. » He started as a journalist in the early 1950s and returned. periodically throughout his career as a novelist. "'He gave us back our history': Isabel Allende on Gabriel García Márquez in an exclusive interview." Democracy now! Np, April 18, 2014. Web. April 25, 2014. that García Márquez is always with us in his writings - Juan Journalists, the novelist García Márquez uses his characteristic writing style, magical realism, to create literary works whose magical realism conveys a reality that incorporates magic superstition and religion. infuse into the world. sparkling notes