One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel about the seven generations of the Buendia family, who founded and live in the town of Macondo. Jose Arcadio Buendia has dreams of Macondo and decides to found it with his wife Ursula Iguaran. Over the generations, numerous misfortunes, ironies and magical occurrences happen in the town to the descendants of the Buendias. In the end, a man manages to decode an old message that chronicles the fate of the Buendia family.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the history of the isolated town of Macondo and of the family who founds it the Buendas For years the town has no contact with the outside world except for gypsies who occasionally visit peddling technologies like ice and telescopes The patriarch of the family Jos Arcadio Buenda is impulsive and inquisitive He remains a leader who is also deeply solitary alienating himself from other men in his obsessive investigations into mysterious matters These character tra
One Hundred Years of Solitude In One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez narrates a story about the Buendias family the story is magical mythical and full of fantasy As I read the book and the tale unfolds I got to meet the Buendia family after I have read the first three pages I felt as if I was part of the story Gabriel Garcia Marquez has a writing style that transports the reader to the places where the story takes place I could even feel the warmth of Macondo described as a bea
A Hundred Years of Solitude Every society is known for having its group of activists or catalyst that change for the better However change cant happen until the problems have been identified and become visible to the public In Colombia the activist that speaks up and calls for change is Gabriel Garcia Marquez who successfully shows the Gothic contexts of the Civil War and the invasion of outside forces through motifs The motifs address the problems of the day in Colombia During the nineteenth c
From depressions to expansions the worlds events and happenings revolve around each other in a circle As young children we are wooed by a serenading baboon telling us we live in The circle of life And it moves us all Though despair and hope Rice As we grow older we realize that the singing monkey has a few things right Many novelists spanning many diverse countries and times seem to connect with a similar theme Encounters happen between different characters at different steps of life but each v