In essence, the psychological torment that the characters portrayed illustrated the gravity of their situation that justified some of their actions. The constant throws in between time helps in the illustration of the turmoil that the characters were experiencing although at different times. Different period and structure The author uses this technique within the characters of the novel to suggest reflections that they have of the future. Therefore, the obvious projection here is that cruelty and pregnancy were the probable causes of mental disorders for these two women. On the other hand, Celia becomes mentally unstable because of the cruelty that received from Jorge’s mother and sister all through her pregnancy. In the end, Felicia attempts to kill Hugo, her husband as the torture proves immense on her. In essence, Celia became mentally unstable when her husband Jorge died while Felicia became mentally unstable because of the ill treatment that she received form her husband. In the novel, projection is a clear element that affects the narrator’s story as the mental instability that had struck Celia befalls on her daughter Felicia. Projection The projection technique is a technique that blends well with science fiction stories where the predicted future tends to be imaginary, but at the same time appears real to the reader. This aspect of narrations relatively appears in films hence making Garcia a formidable author as not many may use this technique in their literature works.

Therefore, the narrators pat makes the author to have a glimpse of how it used to be back in the day when Garcia was residing in the USA. The author relies on the accounts of the narrator as the author was in exile that did not interact with Castro’s rule. The family members that plotline focuses on are Pilar, Celia del Pino’s grand daughter, Lourdes and Felicia who are Celia’s daughters. The purpose of using this technique is to illustrate the suffering of the Del Pino family that spreads across the generations. Writing techniques used by GarciaI.RetrospectionAll through the novel, the narrator seems to be giving accounts of events that they might have experienced in the past without interfering with the flow of the story. The novel has a number of themes witnessed all through the plot that vary from memory, living in exile, family ties and political divisions that characterized the Cuban history. One of the key aspects witnessed across the novel is the fact that the narration jumps from one point in time to another hence going contrary to the linear fashion of narration. Ideally, the novel narration in the novel is the third person narration with countable instances written in the first person narration. The novel setting is in between Cuba and the USA where the focus is on a single family of three generations.

Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García