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17 Cards in this Set

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• El contenido del cuento
o Releer el cuento

Revisa los tópicos del cuento

recuerda los sanbenitos y los leprosos
• Memoriza el vocabulario
MEMORIZE THEM
• Significado de los nombres
o Visitación
• Immigrant who works as a criada in Macondo
• She was a princesa in her país but she was exiled b/c her pueblo had la peste de insomnio- she was exiled to protect herself from the peste
• She knows what the peste can do
• Her nombre signifies that she’s visiting- that she’s a forastero

o José Arcadio Buendía
• He’s optimista about the peste- says it’s no big deal b/c now people have more time to live
• Buen Día
• Él trató de arreglar el peste- optimista

o Úrsula
• Means “small bear”
• She’s big and strong in spirit and in personality
• Physically big too

o Rebeca
• Hebrew name
• Her name means the girl that wears a ribbon in her hair
• Signifies her innocence and her childhood
• She’s a young innocent child

o Pilar Ternera
• had niños with lots of people from the Buendía family
• Pilar= pillar
• Ternera= calf
• She has the innocence of a calf but she provides structure to the family
• Links the family together b/c she’s related to all the children
• She reads the past for the macondo people- they depend on her
• La metáfora de la ciénaga
o Macondo está circunscripta con una ciénaga
o Macondo is isolated from the rest of the world
o They don’t know what reality is b/c they’re in their own world
o Magical realism can exist in Macondo b/c they’re so isolated
• El tono del cuento
o Pesimista
o Irónico
o Sarcastico

Fatalista
• La importancia de la historia y de la palabra escrita
o If we forget history we’re going to repeat it
o The people in macondo are losing their history because they’re losing their memory
o Marquez is trying to teach the reader that if you forget history you’ll repeat it
• El cartel “Dios existe”
o Religion is important
o It really means that Dios doesn’t exist b/c they have to remember that dios exists and they’ll eventually forget that dios exists
o When they forget that dios exists they lose their humanity- the last stage of el olvido
o Dios only exists in the minds of humans- when they forget about Dios, dios ceases to exist


Since they're putting dios on a sign, they're reducing Dios to a thing, to an object
• La evolución del olvido
o Memoria de la infancia
o Nombre y usa de las cosas
o Identidad (ellos pierden su humanidad)
• Manierismo
o A la manera de Miguel Angel (Michelangelo)
o Muscular figures
• Horor Vacuis
o When there isn’t any blank negative space
• Figuras Alargadas
o Greco paints elongated people
• Colores oscuros
o Greco paints with dark colors
• Yuxtaposición temporal (anacronismo)
o Greco puts things in his paintings that don’t belong
o His hijo is in the conde orgáz painting
o There’s a soldado moderno in the expolio painting
• por qué el santoral católico fue recibido mejor en la Hispanoamérica indígena, que el Dios católico
o The indigenous cultures had polytheistic religions, so they were more receptive to the idea of many saints rather than the idea of one God

for this reason the saints are more important
• "catolicismo cultural" de Hispanoamérica y España
o examples of Catholic culture
• ellos celebran muchas fiestas religiosas
• their names have religious connotations (like Maria and names of saints)
• each pueblo is represented by a saint
• sometimes people celebrate el día del santo de una persona en vez de su cumpleaños
• Expressions like “Dios Mio” have religious connotations

o la religión católica está presente en casi todos los aspectos de la vida

o pero ellos no van a la misa ni participan en la religión- solamente es cultural

o la gente se considera católica pero no practica su religión
Greco's vida
Nace en Creta, Grecia, pero vive la mayor parte de su vida artística en Toledo, España.
Characteristics of greco paintings
Anacronismo
Manierismo
Horor vacuis
Colores oscuros
Figuras alargadas