The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Erendira and Her Heartless Grandmother is a short fiction story by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez who uses his life experiences to make his stories. The narrative voice in the story balances characters and events and eventually breaks, momentarily, away from third person into first person mid-story, creating a liminal space connecting the story to another world presumably ours. In this short story Marquez is influenced by the literary movement of naturalism and uses some of the elements to develop the traits of Erendira, the granddaughter, the grandmother, Ulises and the settings. Garcia gives a powerful impression of the personality of these characters. Naturalism in literature is an approach that proceeds from an analysis of reality in terms of natural forces like heredity, environment, and physical drives. Naturalism neglects supernatural powers and considers the nature to be the primary reason for everything happening. Marquez strives to portray life accurately through the dehumanization and the romanticization of adolescence that shape Erendira and her grandmother's life, showing the exploitation of labor by profit and of passivity by ruthlessness; Instead of free will, Marquez depicts Erendiras actions as determined by environmental forces surrounding her. Marquez's use of naturalistic style, depicting Erendira as a human animal, helps us see her as dehumanized, a real human being going through real life. At the beginning of the story as the grandmother and Erendira get a ride to a town after the house burns down, we see the start of the dehumanization process. As a payment for the ride, the truck loader, "taming her with tenderness. (203), makes love to Erendira. Marquez's use of the word "taming  suggest animal treatment as we usually associate the word with training animals. Soon after arriving in the town the grandmother as a mailman "Do you like it? (205) in which he replies "It doesn't look bad to someone who'd been on a diet  (205). Both the grandmother and the mailman refer to Erendira as the pronoun "it  which is used as a rhetorical device to dehumanize Erendira implying she's little more than a non-human animal. We see further evidence of this as we witness Erendira "weep with the shrieks of a frightened animal  (208). Through the story Marquez uses metaphors to further dehumanize Erendira as the missionaries kidnap her and she is "carried...off wrapped like large fragile fish caught in a lunar net.  (213) Marquez reminds us that even in the safety of the missionaries Erendira doesn't escape the natural nature of being dehumanized as the missionaries "put her a hermit's rough cassock oh her  (215). A Hermit is an animal of solitary habits which is exactly how Erendira has been portrayed throughout. Tired of everyday life and looking for an escape, Erendira decides to drive off with Ulises which ends up being unsuccessful. The grandmother, worried of losing Erendira for the third time, makes sure she ca