As part of their Creativity, Action, Service requirement for the IB Diploma Programme, 11th graders are drafting ideas for a public art project to display in Central’s cafeteria. The goal of the mural is to inspire and reinvigorate the school community.
Students in IB World Literature just finished reading Love in the Time of Cholera. Earlier this afternoon, they wrote the following reflections in preparation for a class discussion:
“The events in the story seem to revolve around the disease known as cholera. Whenever someone’s love was rejected, they were infected with cholera, whenever someone got into an argument because of love, there was an epidemic of some kind, and so on. Love doesn’t really seem like happiness after reading this novel. It is often associated with someone losing their mind or just not knowing exactly what they want. Most people who were in search of love either never obtained it, found love and then separated from it, or obtained it through cruel means. The same question kept occurring to me: Is there such a thing as true love?” Continue reading
Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. Read Garcia Marquez’s acceptance speech, titled “The Solitude of Latin America,” in which the author meditates on the literary tradition and colonial legacy of Latin America vis-a-vis Europe.
For the past month, students in IB World Literature have been reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Originally published in 1985 and translated into English in 1988, this beautiful novel follows the decades-long love triangle between Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza and Dr. Juvenal Urbino. When the English translation was released in 1988, Thomas Pynchon and Michiko Kakutani had the following to say in The New York Times: Continue reading
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