Blow Up Analysis.
Point of view: This story is narrated mostly in first person. However, there are some parts in which the character, Michael, starts talking about himself in third person.
Setting: Sunday November 7th, in a Parisian Park. And in Michael's room, where he writes what he saw.
Characters: The main character in the story is Michael, whom is very confused about who and what he's seeing. He has a mental break down related to what happened at the Parisian Park. There are however also secondary characters: The man and woman in the photo that Michael took and a guy in a car.
Plot: The story begins with Michael in the Parisian Park, he starts looking through his camera until he finds a man and a woman. He took a while to realize what the couple was doing, but when he did, he was traumatized. Not only by this but when a guy in a car attempts a homosexual seduction. We can tell that Michael had some sort of psychotic break since he has trouble narrating the story. And at the end we realize that he was constantly hallucinating.
Symbols: The clouds are his hallucinations and they let us understand the sort of traumatizing experience he had. The Blow up allows us to understand that what he saw was something else completely.
Language: Cortázar uses longs sentences and poetic descriptions in order to narrate the story. Since the narrator of the story is a mentally damaged kid, Cortázar's writing has us inside Michael's head.
Themes: A recurrent theme in 'Blow Up' is Michael's 'blindness'. It is the thing that actually provokes his mental break down. He tells us that he was actually very confused the whole time he was in the park. He no longer wanted to see things because he felt blind either way.
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