" Races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." These powerful last words of the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude speak truth. ... Marquez brilliant displays this individualy, romantically, and geographically. ... In Spanish-speaking countries, it is not uncommon to find many generations of the same family living in one house. ... Garcia Marquez illustrates that point in every aspect of One Hundred Years of Solitude, letting the reader walk away with the realization that all acts society, such as sex, love, and dependence are essential for the ...

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In Ibsen's A Doll House and Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, the respective authors indirectly characterize the females as stable and independent by contrasting them against the compulsive and solitary males. ... Colonel Aureliano Buendia and Don Apolinar Moscote are prime examples of physical and governmental dominance in One Hundred Years of Solitude, while Torvald Helmer is the character chosen by Ibsen to display the economic aspect of power associated with masculinity. ... His entire existence is summarized on page 113 of One Hundred Years Of Solitude where Marquez st...

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Those in exile near one hundred and twenty thousand."2 These problems are common throughout Latin America, a factor in creating a sense of unity because of these common concerns. ... These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." ... In "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the capitalistic imperialists take the role of the villain and the workers are the innocent victims. ... 9 Like "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the revolutionaries fight for a better life, described in a daydream of M...

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The list could go on, but probably the biggest name associated with this movement is Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian whose enormously popular One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967, help him earn the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature....

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One hundred Years of Solitude The novel is the history of the founding, development, and death of a human settlement, Macondo, and of the most important family in that town, the Buendias. ... "Solitude," suggests loneliness, the sense of being apart from others. ... Sex can be used to combat solitude, because of its power to connect one person to another. ... He lived with his grandparents for the first eight years of his life Garcia Marquez entered college to study law. ... The setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude is the fictional town of Macondo, Columbia, which is much like Gar...

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The novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," deals with the story of the Buendia family. ... Events of several hundred years show the evolution of Macondo; from the years 1850 to 1950. ... He becomes lost in solitude. ... In this way different things coexist at one time. ... He becomes lost in solitude. ...

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In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez used the motif of biblical references in order to outline the main theme of solitude in the novel. ... In the beginning, he had founded Macondo and was its leader, a very good leader that wanted the best for his village, "Jose Arcadio Buendia, who was the most enterprising man ever to be seen in the village, had set up the placement of the houses in such a way that from all of them one could reach the river and draw water with the same effort, and he had like up the streets with suck good sense that no house hot more sun ." .....

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Likewise, the entire line of Buendias in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude is shown as a whole conglomeration of family traits, including both strengths and weaknesses. ... It is this similar sense of ancestral connection that Marquez weaves powerfully into his novel, 100 Years of Solitude. ... 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. ... Both are feverishly trying to connect themselves to their past, and as they each reach their respective goals, the source ...

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude takes place in a Latin American setting. ... Petra Cotes, the young woman in the selection from One Hundred Years Of Solitude, intrudes in the narrative and distracts the Segundo twins from their normal daily activities in the isolated village of Macondo. ... This is quite similar to the overall narrative of One Hundred Years of Solitude which is being read out of Melquiades' history book by the last of the Buendia family. ... In One Hundred Years of Solitude Petra Cotes is unaware that she is being violated, whereas Juliana, in ...

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This book is about a tyrant who leaves 232 years. ... Thereafter the Patriarch celebrates his hundred year in power. This event makes the character realize the state of solitude that he has after the death of his so-called family. This feeling of solitude force him to lie goes off of all the strings that keep this country together. ... At last he died in the solitude and with faded power. ...

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No One Writes to the Colonel. ... One Hundred Years of Solitude. ... From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1981-1990, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore Important works: Gabriel Garcí Márquez is regarded as one of Latin America's most formidable writers, and his novels include: Leaf Storm (1955) The Funeral of Big Momma (short stories, 1962) One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) Of Love and Other Demons (1995) One Hundred Years of Solitude, which was published in 1967 gave him an international reputation. ... His grandpar...

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Religion in A Farewell to Arms For hundreds of years, writers have used religion as a principle issue and point of discussion in their novels. Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed his views in The Scarlet Letter, Garcia Marquez did the same in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Ernest Hemingway used his writing to develop his own ideas concerning the church. ... For one, they question his intelligence, with one soldier proclaiming that "all thinking men are atheists". ... At one point a soldier says, "The Pope wants the Austrians to win the war". ... In no way does God have a presence in the book...

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