" 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. ... The novel begins with geographic isolation. ... 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 survival of people or any species....

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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. ... In the novel, "no one was alarmed at first they were happy at not sleeping.... He becomes lost in solitude. ... 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. ... Adam was the one who had tried to do what's right and had stronger qualities such as character. ... She was the one who had to take charge and run everything after Jose's downfall. Ursula's downfall, though, was the fact that it took her so many years to realize what was going on and not be able to prevent it. ... In conclusion, the biblical references within the novel are there to help the reader understand wh...

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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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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. On a critical level, it has been described as his ...

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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 in the novel, is like celebrating the size and potency of the Buendia men's and the lubricity of the women. Sex can be used to combat solitude, because of its power to connect one person to another. ... The setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude is the fictional town of Macondo, Columbia, which is much like Garc&i...

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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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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 Buendia family, focus of the novel itself, seems to transcend time and death, as generations come and overlap. ... Both are feverishly trying to connect themselves to their past, and as they each reach their respective goals, the source of their pursuit becomes very real to them; ...

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The boss of the farm implies when he first meets them: " Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. ... He declared, "The great man is who in the midist of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.... The word solitude means the state of being or living alone in the dictionary, but these great peoples are not physically living by themselves in Emerson's case. ... After two hundreds year since Emerson published the Self Reliance document, the westerners fully understand his encouragements and put the ideas into practice. While Jo...

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Throughout her life, Kate was surrounded by many strong independent women, who all became her mentors in one way or another. ... Oscar was a cotton grower, and he and Kate spent the first 9 years of their marriage living and working on his cotton farm. ... During that period she wrote over one hundred and fifty poems, essays, short stories and novels (Toth 245-255). By far her most controversial novel was The Awakening. ... Kate withdrew from society and very rarely ever went out of her house, spending the last five years of her life in relative solitude (Toth 244). ...

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Charles served as alderman of Jamestown's largest ward for many years as well as deputy sheriff, but he lost his mayoral race. ... His serious reading began at twelve with a collection of biographies titled The Genius of Solitude. ... L"Amour wrote more than one hundred books, including eighty-six novels, fourteen short story collections and one nonfiction-a chronicle of life on the American frontier. ... Two years later, in 1953, Hondo, his first novel published under his own name, appeared. ... When he died, two hundred million copies of his books were in print. ...

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Even though the novel Frankenstein is over a hundred years old, there are still lessons that can be learned from the novel. Some of the issues that are brought up in the novel are the importance of family, disliking a person because they are different, and accountability for ones actions. ... The monster is also a logical thinker throughout the novel, especially when the monster makes Frankenstein feel his solitude. ... Frankenstein goes months on end without a word to his family and the monster is pleading for one, it is just ironic, who"s the monster? ... It is like Frankenstein faults...

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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. This is fully evident in his novel A Farewell to Arms. ... 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 w...

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These novels are The Autumn of The Patriarch and The General in His Labyrinth. ... This book is about a tyrant who leaves 232 years. ... The foundation of the novel is the degradation of a character who is widely loved around the continent. ... Thereafter the Patriarch celebrates his hundred year in power. ... At last he died in the solitude and with faded power. ...

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These boys are good friends and have many adventures together in both novels. ... Tom is a "sivilized" person who has read many books and attended school for years. ... The irony in this is that Huck is the one actually living the greater adventure. ... Throughout the novel, Huck slowly awakens to the idea that slavery is wrong. ... "The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"...

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Cooper modeled this book after Sir Walter Scott's Waverle Novels. ... The gothic episodes clash with the historical ones. ... Even after Coopers retirement in novels he continued to write satire and nonfiction. ... This marked Coopers return to novel writing. ... One of Coopers major criticizing peers was Mark Twain. ...

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He wrote poetry, novels, and short stories; and through his life he faced many trials and tribulations.... Nathan Toomer, Jean's father, was twenty-seven years-older than Nina Pinchback, and Nina's father, P.B.S. ... He also loved the outdoors because it gave him solitude. ... He seemed to repeat this pattern often and continued doing this for the next four years. ... "Blue Meridian" is more than eight hundred lines long, and it celebrates America for its diversity of races, tribes, and regions....

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"Hovering over these brisk waves, a couple of hundred yards away, was a shining disk we felt a sensation first, all through our bodies then I looked to see if George, who stood nearest to me, was still alive. ... No one. ... The first few years of a lifetime are the most influential of them all, a state of uncensored innocence and being truly naive. ... Innocence is one of the few things that cannot ever be returned. ... This particular section of the novel, of Sinbad's preliminary encounter on this new land, closely emulates the story of Adam and Eve, taken from the bible, out of t...

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After finishing her best novels, To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Woolf decides to change the style and write something "delighted to read". ... She discharges her duty as a woman, marries one Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and bears a son in the Edwardian age. ... (P5) In Orlando, she further gives her explanation of androgyny: "In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female; and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man."(P115) In this novel, androgyny is taken as a union between male and female, ...

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Almost one hundred and fifty years since it was first published, Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener"" remains one of the most elusive short stories in all of American literature. ... While many intriguing hypotheses have been offered over the years, no single interpretation dominates critical opinion or seems to fully explain the author's intention. ... His innocence was shaken by his father's financial ruin and early death, which led to Melville's years of aimlessness as a common sailor. ... In the novel Moby Dick, each of Melville's characters interprets the ...

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This novel is divided into two broad sections: "The Ebb:Bhata" and "The Tide:Jowar." The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago of hundreds of scattered islands, some densely populated while others completely uninhabited, at the mohona of several rivers in the Bay of Bengal. ... For hundreds of years, only the truly dispossessed braved the man-eating tigers, snakes and the crocodiles who rule these fragmented islands. ... The couple came to Lusibari in the years following independence when Nirmal's radical political became too dangerous in Calcutta and...

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There are four protagonists in the novel, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale, Roger Chillingworth and little Pearl. Due to impulse and solitude, Hester committed adultery, which shooked the puritans of Boston. ... Making use of his profession, he finds a chance to live with Dimmesdale under one roof and destroy him step by step from his internal heart, until death, and at last Chillingworth change from a victim into a devil. ... The character analysis in The Scarlet Letter is quite successful that by analyzing, Hester, one of the main character, in the cline of plots, this paper concludes that t...

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