Literary Devices
Clues that hint plot twists further in a story
What is Foreshadowing
What does the man accept at the end of the story
The aztec world is the true reality and the modern world was the dream.
"It was difficult to keep his eyes open, the drowsiness was more powerful than he."
What is Modern
"they had also picked him up off the ground, someone had approached him also with a knife in his hand, approached him who was lying face up"
What is Parallels
What is Symbolism
Why does the man dream of a modern world.
As a coping mechanism to escape the brutal aztec world.
"Now they were taking him out, taking him out, it was the end."
What is Aztec
Where was the man taken to be sacrificed
What is the temple
Two extremely contrasting settings
What is Juxtaposition
What do the Aztecs do to the man?
They sacrifice him
It was unusual as a dream because it was full of smells, and he never dreamt smells. First a marshy smell
What is Aztec
What is someone crossing the street
Senses to create imagination
What is the theme?
How fragile the human mind and our sense of reality can be
"And at the same time he had the feeling that this void, this nothingness, had lasted an eternity. No, not even time, more as if, in this void, he had passed across some thing, or had run back immense distances."
What is Modern?
Ancient Aztec Wars
What is War of the Blossom