While events in these three books echo the history of their respective countries, their main characters do as well. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the Buendía family represents different parts of Colombia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendía family are solitary in some way, which represents the isolated of Latin America. According to Laura Turgeon in World Literature and its Times, their seclusion is “symbolic of . . . their culture, their continent . . . unable to relate to the world outside on terms other than those of a deeply felt and crippling inferiority” (406). At the time that Marquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude, Latin America was disconnected from the rest of the world, and this is reflected
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Specifically, she represents the new generation of Mexico that was marginalized by the traditions of old Mexico. Tita is forced, like Mexican citizens, to work for the rest of her life in the service of someone else, because tradition dictates for it to be that way. For Tita, because she is the youngest daughter in her family, she must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita has no choice in the matter, and as her mother says to her, “you don’t have an opinion . . . For generations, not a single person in my family has ever questioned this tradition, and no daughter of mine is going to be the one to start” (Esquival 12). However, over time, Tita rebels just like the younger generation of Mexican citizens did during the Revolution. Not only does Tita take control of her own life by beginning a relationship with Pedro, she also acts to protect her niece from the same ruthless treatment that she suffered under. When her sister, Rosaura, threatens to use her daughter the same way Elena used Tita, Tita immediately defends her niece, telling Rosaura that she will not allow her to “poison her daughter with those sick ideas” and that she will “not let her ruin [her daughter's] life either!” (Esquivel 157-158). This is akin to the citizens of Mexico rising up against their oppressors to establish their own government and provide for a greater
Specifically, she represents the new generation of Mexico that was marginalized by the traditions of old Mexico. Tita is forced, like Mexican citizens, to work for the rest of her life in the service of someone else, because tradition dictates for it to be that way. For Tita, because she is the youngest daughter in her family, she must take care of her mother until she dies. Tita has no choice in the matter, and as her mother says to her, “you don’t have an opinion . . . For generations, not a single person in my family has ever questioned this tradition, and no daughter of mine is going to be the one to start” (Esquival 12). However, over time, Tita rebels just like the younger generation of Mexican citizens did during the Revolution. Not only does Tita take control of her own life by beginning a relationship with Pedro, she also acts to protect her niece from the same ruthless treatment that she suffered under. When her sister, Rosaura, threatens to use her daughter the same way Elena used Tita, Tita immediately defends her niece, telling Rosaura that she will not allow her to “poison her daughter with those sick ideas” and that she will “not let her ruin [her daughter's] life either!” (Esquivel 157-158). This is akin to the citizens of Mexico rising up against their oppressors to establish their own government and provide for a greater