One Hundred Years of Solitude

I began writing An Interview with a Trout in March, right after we finished reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. With all of the texts involved in the second half of the Haruki Murakami class, one theme that reverberated in my head was how family can come to represent latent memory and one’s cyclical history. These stories made me think about my own family history and the potential stories that could hold a prophecy on my own life. Both sides of my family had no ties to the United States…

drawn. The main characters in stories also represent their countries in post-colonial and civil war ages. The Buendia family in 100 Years of Solitude represents different parts of Columbia as the family cycles through life and death. All members of the Buendia family are solitary in some way, which is a representation of the solitude of Latin America. Their solitude is “symbolic of . . . their culture, their continent . . . unable to relate to the world outside on terms other than those of a…

Gabriel Garcia’s work proves his ability to deliver message through writing. Through “one hundred years of solitude” he creates a reflection of the society. The roles of men and women are well defined in the novel. There is a significant contribution from women, and hence they are a reason why the novel is a success. This article focuses on literary theory, and it analyzes works done by other authors which critic Garcia’s novel mentioned above. The main theme of this piece is the role of women…

One Hundred Years of Solitude Through a Historical Lens Without a doubt Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, with its elaborate plot involving alchemy, raining flowers, and chocolate levitation, exemplifies a true work of fiction. But, when peering beyond the surface level of an enjoyable story, the tale embodies the history of Latin America, spanning from Spanish conquest to regional turmoil and Western colonialism. Through a historical critical lens, Garcia…

Videos and social media posts pour out of East Aleppo, and the world weeps. For the seven-year-old girl facing her death, for the man seeking prayers as a bomb explodes in the distance, for the activist pleading, “Save Aleppo. Save humanity.” The aerial footage of the city is apocalyptic, but it is the images of individuals grasping for hope as they face death that has truly captured and horrified the masses. We have seen this before: the figures leaping from the World Trade Center, the story of…

100 years, the Buendía family recycled and reused the names of the original family members, José Arcadio, Aureliano, Amaranta, and Úrsula, and send the following generations of the family to drown under waves and waves of predetermined doom. The lives of the new name-bearers carry strains of the originals, as if their names are made up of the talents, characteristics, abilities, tragedies, and traits of their predecessors that manifest themselves in their new host. The characters of 100 Years of…

gives the fable yet another dimension which I think is positive. In other words, the book describes clearly what era it is set in. -Genre: Discuss what genre you think the book belongs to and why? What is distinctive? I do not think there is only one genre in the book. The book is both very allegorical then the whole book seems to correspond to a metaphor of our modern society. In the same way, it is very critical of our own society when including demonstrates what can happen if the wrong…

“Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...” this quote of Gabriel García Márquez from One Hundred Years of Solitude is just a summary of never-ending conflict in Colombia. Colombia had a chain of civil wars since late 19th century. But the most bloody and inhuman link of this chain was the period of “La Violencia”. Following the assassination of liberal leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, “The Bogota Riots” changed the destiny and became the trigger of the countries violent history. “Even if…

Isolation sometimes is necessary for introspection, for evaluating thoughts and whatever one has done in their life. An individual can find many answers just by living alone and in isolation for some time. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Jose Arcadio Segundo enter extreme solitude throughout the novel. Jose Arcadio Buendía, one of the first Buendias, goes into solitude because he is constantly searching for the answers to everything. After…

In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Nigromanta is described as a large black women with big breasts and wiry hairy. Gabriel Garcia Marquez goes into great detail about the specifics of her body. He compares Nigromanta’s hips to a mare, her breasts to melons, and her hair to a medieval warrior’s mail headdress. Also, she is also described as having a whistle similar to that of a wild-animal. Garcia Marquez draws similarities between Nigromanta and animals in order to portray how the black race was…