Gabriel García Márquez enriched and spread the writing style of magical realism in the Spanish-speaking and English-speaking world. However, magical realism is not the only genre by which his writing can be described. Márquez has written numerous books that express various writing styles, including realism and journalistic style, reflecting life in Colombia and abroad. At the age of forty, Gabriel García Márquez had already published more than ten books and had become a very distinguished writer. The major events in Márquez's life all had an impact on his writing and are expressed through his stories and novels. Gabriel García Márquez's life strongly influenced and inspired his writing styles, propelling him to be the best writer in the genres of realism and magical realism. Born in Colombia, Márquez grew up during the violencia, a time when the government was very unstable and at least 200,000 people were killed and millions of Colombians fled to neighboring countries. Márquez had been exposed to violence from a young age. Because his parents had difficulty finding work, Márquez lived with his maternal grandparents in Aracata, Colombia. Márquez's grandmother was an avid storyteller and gave him his first knowledge of omens, premonitions and ghosts. “I think all of my writing is about the experiences of the time I spent with my grandparents” (quote). Márquez also based much of his work – including Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude – on his grandmother's stories. While he was living with his grandparents, the banana boom in Aracata ended. The resulting strike resulted in over a hundred strikers being murdered in one night in Aracata and thrown into a mass grave (will you mention it). .. middle of paper ......he looked like. This story was based on the love affair of Márquez's parents because his maternal grandfather did not approve of the relationship. After several attempts to separate the couple, Marquez's grandfather allowed it. her daughter to marry the man she wanted. Although Love in the Time of Cholera was about love and death, it focuses on love rather than cholera. The Very Old Man with Huge Wings is about a family who finds an old man with it. wings on their property and keeps it in a chicken coop. He becomes a phenomenon and the family gets rich by charging admission to see him. Márquez uses his magical realism writing style to convey the message that people have a hard time believing what is in front of them. Everyone sees an old man with wings and people try to decipher what he could be. Sometimes what you see is what it really is.