“Living to Tell the Tale” is the first volume of the autobiography of Gabriel García Márquez.
The book was published in Spanish in 2002, .Living to Tell the Tale tells the story of García Márquez' life from the year he was born in Aracataca, and the mid-1950s, when he experimented in journalism to pay his bills and finish his first novel, “Leaf Storm”. The book ends with his proposal to his wife. It focuses heavily on García Márquez' family, schooling, and early career as a journalist and as short story writer, and includes references to numerous real-life events that ended up in his novels in one form or another, including the “Banana massacre” that appears prominently in “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and the friend of his whose life and his death were the model for “Chronicle of a Death Foretold.”
The citation from the book that most strongly supports the narrator making the connection that he and his mother are abandoned like the thief’s family is:
"Me siento como si yo fuera el ladrón" —( "I feel like I am the Thief")
To convey the culture in which the ancient Greeks lived.
Rewritten:
My Mother is my idol for me. She does everything she can for her family. She teaches me important things. She looks like a beautiful shining star in the sky. I want to be like her. She takes care of our family the best she can. When i am sick, she takes care of me and hopes i get better. She loves me and worries for me. Today i will study hard for her. She makes my family feel warm. I am always happy to be with her. These are the reasons why i love her. These are the reasons that makes her my idol.
I phoned him because he was not home.
The second part of the sentence is now dependent on the first as it cannot stand alone as its own sentence.
