Analysis of If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Calvino and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez - Essay Example

The major theme in the two stories of ‘the night’s traveler and solitude is love and sex. The two stories give highly illustrative experiences of the love and sexual relationships between the characters in the books, using highly expressive language to show the reader the extent and amount of love that is shared between the characters. The love affair between Meme and Mauricio in solitude provides the sweetest episode in the entire book, with the author illustrating the love and passion shared by these two major characters.

The author explains the lovemaking scenes between the two as they throw all caution and care to the air. Calvino, in his story, creates and develops the theme of love, laying emphasis on both the boy-girl love and family love between the characters. The two major characters in the book, Flannery and Ludmilla both seek each other’s love. Both books have episodes that show the characters experiencing the most intimate of love experiences of passionate lovemaking. The lovemaking sessions in the two books, however, are characterized by the conflict that the characters have to fight in order to attain full enjoyment of the passion and love between them.

In the night’s traveler, the author depicts romantic love between the characters and illustrates it in writing, ‘grasping my back, she pulled me down with her on the mat and with rapid twitches of her whole person she slipped her moist prehensile sex under mine, which without a false move was swallowed as if by a sucker, while her thin naked legs clutched my hips’ (Calvino, p. 201)."I have no idea how long Mr. Okeda had been there. He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us.

In his cold pupil, in the firm twist of his lips, was reflected Madame Miyagi's orgasm reflected in her daughter's gaze’ (Calvino, p. 208). This above-illustrated text is highly graphic of the sexual theme in the book and clearly makes the point that the book was not intended for children but for adults.