LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in 1927 in the province of Santa Marta on the Caribbean coast of Colombia and loved to read and write books since he was a child. Critics consider his book "LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA" a creative opportunity that provided a new insight into teenage love. He later said that his grandmother inspired him to write with a magical realist bent. Winning the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature cemented his position as one of the greatest Latin American writers of all time. In 2007, a film based on this novel is being made by director Mike Newell.

Love during cholera....

 Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Can dating be unlimited ? Probably not. It is susceptible to epidemics. Can become victims of wars. If not, you can fall into the pits of lies in dating and become wild.

But he had to wait for fifty-three years and seven months and eleven days and nights to understand that no matter when he dated or where he dated, dating is always dating.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Who is the man who is tempted to dig through the past behind the charm of teenage courtship, the wrinkled face of a sixty-year-old grandmother?
That's him.

This is the story of him and her. A young man named Florentino Arisa notices a high-class girl named Fermina Daza and falls in love with her. Her father, who opposes her love affair, marries her off to a high-status do ctor named Urbino. Over time, Mae stops thinking about Florentino, angered by the supernatural sorcery she believes he has committed. In time, Fermina and Dr. Urbino married and became the mother of a daughter named Ophelia. A widowed mother with old age meets her old lover again.
For fifty-one years, nine months and four days after he left her, Florentino had not stopped thinking for a single moment. After all this time, she sees Florentino on that day, more than half a century after attending his funeral. But he is not accepted because of the existing hatred towards him. But after sorting them out, the two fall in love again as before. Florentino's long-awaited love becomes a reality. Having an aesthetic mind, Florentino captivated her by playing the violin and composing poetry. The two started dating through letters and soon they met secretly. Florentino's love for her was incomparable. He wrote her more than twenty pages of letters. Unable to wait for answers from her, he fell ill.
"Love is great and sublime in the face of adversity."

"It's just as bad to be loved as it is to be loved. "He presented her with the camellia flower that was hanging from her headband, but she refused it, saying, "It is a flower of promise."

"For Fermina Dasa, there was no other association that was more interesting than those quiet real times spent with Florentino. No matter how hard he tried to believe, the memory of the past did not justify the future. On the contrary, what really happened was that Fermina Dasa's opinion was further confirmed. It was true that the coming-of-age awakening was a sublime sensation, and it was also wonderful, but it was not courtship.Despite her austere authenticity, she did not have the strength to tell him this truth, either by letter or word of mouth. Miraculously, relief came to her. After those written meditations, she didn't have the strength to tell him how fake she saw in the sentimental letters he wrote, and how much his spirit had become younger with false insults.She didn't have the courage to explain to him the possible damage to his selfishness that his madness to relive the past could cause. It's true that Tuesday afternoons without him are boring, lonely, monotonous."

The lesson that can be derived from "Love in the Time of Cholera" is that love is a resilient force that transcends time, societal expectations, and personal obstacles. Through the characters of Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza, the novel teaches us that love can endure even in the face of separation and the passage of decades. It also explores the consequences of obsessive love and the complexities of relationships. Ultimately, the book reminds us that love requires patience, sacrifice, and the ability to navigate the challenges that life presents, but it has the power to transform and sustain us throughout our journey.

Through such aesthetic decorations, the novel built from the mounds reflects the space for love in life. This clearly shows that lovers' boundless love can never be broken and life is built on the hope that they will be reunited every day.

Written by Gayani karunarathne