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Explore the use of power in short stories

By Annabel & Rebecca

Power -> Characters names

Colombia 1961

Conclusion

Jose: "What, is it Sadie"

Sadie: "If you please m'm"

Paramilitaries

The paramilitaries delivered elections for their favoured candidates by ensuring the other candidates on the ballot were threatened into pulling out they also used death and sexual violence to ensure a win.

The assassination of Jorge Elicier Gaitan

1948

Military

Military

dictatorship

1953-58

Differences

Jose: "How many kinds did you say there were, cook? "

Cook: ''Fifteen, Miss Jose''

  • Different power structures

Power -> Dialogue

La Violencia

1948-1958

National front

1958-74

Domination of the Colombian Conservative party and the Liberal party

1848-

"...shoot you."

"...shoot me."

"There was a revolver."

Jose: "Hans, move these tables into the smoking room, and bring a sweeper to take these marks off the carpet "

Jose: 'My dear Laura'

Laura: 'My darling'

Similarities

Power shifts

  • Visual and Physical objects

'He says if you don't take out his tooth, he'll shoot you.'

Power-> Appearance

'Jose, the butterfly, always came down in a silk petticoat and a kimono jacket'

'Black hat trimmed with gold daisies, and a long black velvet ribbon'

The Garden Party

By Katherine Mansfield

'they were the greatest possible eyesore'

One of these days

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Power is used to show:

  • Based on a true story
  • Set in Wellington, New Zealand
  • Published February 1922

Power shifts

Corruption

Alluded Revenge

Tears

Trembling, sweating, panting

Power -> Contrasting homes

Didn't look at the mayor

'It was disgusting and sordid'

'Little rags and shreds of smoke, so unlike the great silvery plumes that uncurled from the Sheridans' chimneys'

Power shifts

What is power?

  • Power is the ability to influence or control the behavior of people

Two types of power

Social:

e.g. When a influential person enters into a room and the room goes quiet

Political:

e.g. the king executes someone he has had a disagreement with

The mayor didn't look at him

Its the same damn thing

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