“Until a short while before, he explained, the risk of fatal accidents was great, and even more so the danger of different kinds of paralysis of varying degrees.”
Marquez exploits medical allusion to accentuate the brittleness of wellbeing and exposures of medical techniques. Medical procedures are not unquestionably seamless which occasions qualms vis-à-vis the prospect of surviving some perilous maneuvers.
“The greatest victory of my life has been having everyone forget me.”
Mr. President avows that he fancies to be overlooked; his endorsement expounds why he favors to be incognito. For the president, being unfamiliar and disremembered is better because it would contract the reminiscences of his degrading coup d'état. Noticeably, he is not interested in eminence and supremacy after his quandary.
“Margarito Duarte had not gone beyond primary school, but his vocation for letters had permitted him a broader education through the impassioned reading of everything in print he could lay his hands on.”
Margarito Duarte’s scholarship is equivalent to an out-and-out auto-didacticism. His partial education does not encumber his ultimate erudition. He is zealous reader who transcends his primary edification; his autodidactic essence renders him an intellectual.
‘At last, in the month of July, Pius XII recovered and left for his summer vacation in Castel Gandolfo. Margarito took the Saint to the first weekly audience, hoping he could show her to the Pope, who appeared in the inner courtyard on a balcony so low that Margarito could see his burnished nails and smell his lavender scent.’
Marquez presents a religious allusion by incorporating the pope. Through the allusion, the reader establishes that Duarte is a zealous catholic because it is the religion which ratifies canonization. The pope is dominant in the verdicts apropos the canonization course of saints.
