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Journalistic Career
Techniques learned through journalism
Techniques of journalism that are significant to the text
Examples in Text
Bonus
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How did Garcia Marquez first start his writing career?
- Age 20 - Column for El Heraldo
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What is the most important technique in journalism Marquez learned?
- 5 W’s (who, what, where, when, and why)
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How did Marquez use his technique of incorporating factual evidence in the book The Chronicle?
- use of citing direct and indirect sources
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What’s an example of a direct quote that Marquez incorporated into the story?
- "a massacre...half of the cranium had been destroyed by the trepanation" (19) From the priest who performed the mishandled autopsy
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What is the inverted Pyramid technique and how does Marquez use it in his novel?
- first sentence or two contain the most important aspects of the story - revealing the death of Santiago Nasar in the first lines
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What was Garcia Marquez trained to do as a reporter?
- 'five W's' news lead - attributing info to different sources - detail
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How did Marquez learn to incorporate his factual evidence?
- support evidence through documents - direct and indirect quotes - attribution
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How did Garcia Marquez use the investigative reporter skills he learned and developed while working for El Espectador?
- use of direct sources - real-life couple who had reunited in Manaure
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What’s an example where Marquez used the technique of the 5 W’s?
- "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on" (1).
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How did Garcia Marquez first get involved in journalism?
- Went to college to study law, but was also interested in journalism. Ended up studying journalism. - "The Metamorphosis" - Nobel Literature Prize
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What are the ways Marquez learned make his reporting more believable?
- pay attention to every aspect of detail
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How did Marquez use the basic technique of ‘chronicling’ the events?
- Starting with the outcome and piecing together information
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What is the example of Marquez using the primary function of newspapers, communicating what people do, feel, and think, in his novel?
- “The widower looked at him, his eyes full of tears...he was weeping of rage...Just imagine: an amount like that and having to say no from a simple weakness of the spirit...He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart” (36,37).
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Where did Garcia Marquez first work in journalism?
- Investigative reporting at El Espectador
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What standard techniques, evident in all of his writings, did Marquez learn?
- chronicling of events - not interjecting personal commentary either to dismiss or promote sources
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How did Marquez use the primary function of newspapers, communicating what people do, feel, and think, in his novel?
- used 37 different witnesses and used quotes from them to illustrate how they were feeling or what they were thinking.
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What is an example of Marquez using witnesses as sources to support his claims or story?
- Pedro Vicario told the narrator, "I was awake for eleven months," and the narrator adds, "And I knew him well enough to know that it was true" (80).
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Where did Garcia Marquez get his ideas and inspiration to write his columns?
-cable text news items
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What is the primary role in journalism that Marquez had to learn to incorporate into his text?
- communicate what people do, feel, and think - powers of observation and reasoning
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How does Marquez either directly or indirectly use witnesses as sources to support his claims or story?
- uses three dozen witnesses he has interviewed as sources - 'he said,' 'he told me' or 'according to'
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How does Marquez use detail in his novel and what is are 2 examples?
-"Many people coincided in recalling that it was a radiant morning with a sea breeze. But most agreed that the weather was funereal" (4). - Victoria Guzman, the cook, attests that the February sun "warmed things up" (6), but the narrator's sister, Margot, recalls "It was Christmas weather" (16) - "a Mannlicher Schoenauer .30-06 rifle, a .300 Holland & Holland Magnum rifle, and a .22 Hornet" (3)