escribed strange creatures, which many can be found today, but his interpretation created a supernatural rendition of Latin America in the European point of view. Overall, Latin American culture is a combination of many other cultures that came during colonization.
             Garcia Marquez, born into poverty studied law and journalism at the National University
             of Colombia in Bogota, and at the University of Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist, and demonstrated a unique interest in cinema and dedicated much of his early career to film criticism. Garcia Marquez began writing short stories in the late 1940s. His first major publication was "La hojarasca." In this story, Marquez describes the first fictional Colombian village of Macondo--the setting of much of his later work--and the combination of realism and fantasy characteristic of his style. His early journalistic writings clearly reflect his fascination with William Faulkner.
             Garcia Marquez's Monologue of "Isabel Watching it Rain in Macondo" offers us an example of the dangers of the "authoritarian nature of technological systems" and an example of the ways in which political and cultural systems are shaped by technology. "Then it rained. And the sky was a gray, jellyish substance that flapped it's wings a hand away from our heads" is a form of magic realism described in his short story. Garcia Marquez carries out his distortion of direct historical time through the internal monologues that record the narrators' thoughts, and through the complex effect of many monologues. The extent of the narrators' structure of social and historical reference differs significantly, and is almost immediately outlined by their reactions to the first historical sign, the sound of the train's horn, which marks 2:30. Garcia Marquez employs to overturn the passage of time at the level of the stories structure. The reader mus...