Milkman’s filial struggle to be accepted by his father begins before he even enters into this world, as Macon Dead forces his wife to att

empt an abortion of their child, Milkman. His struggles continue into adolescence, when he finds his father intimidating and unworthy of his respect. He obeys his father when need calls for it, but by the time he is fourteen, the only similarity he finds that he shares with his father is “his love of good shoes and fine thin socks. And he did try, as his father’s employee, to do the work the way Macon wanted it done” (Morrison 63). Milkman resigns himself to his work as his father’s son, and their similarities abruptly end there.

It is this similar sense of ancestral connection that Marquez weaves powerfully into his novel, 100 Years of Solitude. The Buendia family, focus of the novel itself, seems to transcend time and death, as generations come and overlap. Ghosts of the deceased retain contact with those still living. The family branches out seemingly rapidly, but the same parent qualities of Jose Arcadio and Ursula are passed to each and every one of their descendants. This family is one that shares many traits within a cohesive whole, and yet, just as Milkman’s display of difference is shown, individuality pla

Some topics in this essay:
Macon Dead, Arcadio II, Trees Family, Aureliano Bablilonia, Solitude Buendia, Garcia Marquez’s, Aureliano Milkman, Arcadio Ursula, Aureliano Melquiades, Solomon Likewise, family line, family tree, jose arcadio, 100 solitude,