Ib World Literature Assignment

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Language A: English Literature Level: SL Literature In Translation: Reflective Statement And Written Assignment Name of School: B.D. Somani International School Name of Candidate: Ishaan Deva Candidate Number: 002602-0026 Session: May 2014 Name of Text and author: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Love in the Time of Cholera. Reflective Statement Word Count: 400 words Essay Word Count: 1228 words Reflective Statement:- To what extent did the Interactive - Oral improve your cultural and contextual considerations of the text? Name of text and author: Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. Love in the Time of Cholera. Participants in Interactive Oral: Arjun Dhruva, Arjun Mehra, William Bhot, Vir Gandhi, Shanat Barua, Maitreya Kundalia, Manav Gabbawala, Saurabh Runwal, Ishaan Deva and Mikhail Hussain. In today’s Interactive Oral, I found Arjun Mehra’s presentation on the idea of love very helpful in understanding the cultural and contextual considerations of the text. He mentioned how Florentino would employ tactics such as serenading Fermina with a violin, writing her love poems and giving her roses, to woo her. I found I could really relate to this to the concept of love portrayed in Bollywood movies. The hero always woos the heroine, it is never the other way around. The same serenading, writing of love poems and sending of flowers happens here all the time. Like Florentino, the hero usually falls lovesick literally. Florentino faces major opposition from Fermina’s father, which is the case in every Bollywood movie, where the hero must win over the father before he gets the girl of his dreams. Fermina leaving him for Dr. Urbino and then getting back together with him towards the end of the text, is another regularly seen motif in romantic films. My presentation on the family life of characters in the text also had strong connections with Indian culture. I
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