Julio Cortazar

Julio Cortazar makes his reader play a game where the reader has to skip some chapters but go back and reread other chapters. The motorcycle accident occurred late at night in the middle of the street. A women tried to throw herself in to traffic and he swerved out of the way and ended up crashing and then fainting. His first dream is strange with fragrances. He smelt war where he grabbed a stone dagger. The smell was a sweet incense of guerra florida. Which is also known as the “flower war” which was a ritual war fought between the Aztec triple Alliance and its enemies of the spaniards when they arrived in 1519. In the story the protagonist believes that he is the enemy of the Aztecs and that the Aztecs are going to hunt him down so he runs away from them. The sound and smell are feared by the protagonist which is why he woke up from the first dream. The last dream is when he believed that is dreams were actually a reality. In the first two dreams he woke up from his dreams knowing that they were not actually a reality but the last one he believed he was a part of the aztec world.