Collected Stories | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Limbo - This is a place where the characters in this book sometimes go after death.

The mirror - One character tries to differentiate himself from his dead brother through the use of this object.

Curlews - This object causes the blindness of some of the characters of the stories.

Macondo - This is a town in Gabriel García Márquez's South America.

Banana train - This object carries two characters to their relative's grave.

Dentist's chair - This is where the Mayor "pay[s] for our twenty dead men."

Rosal del Virrey - This...
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