The novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," deals with the story of the Buendia family. It is the chronicle of a family with, "inescapable repetitions, confusions and progressive decline. The novel covers the time span of a family's rise and fall; from Jose Arcadio Buendia to the death of the last member of the line." The story starts when Colonel Aureliano Buendia recalls the first time, "when his father took him to discover ice." A new and fresh world of Macondo which has been ... , when she had reached one hundred forty-five years of age, she had given up the pernicious custom of keeping tr...

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• Grade Level: High School

... as a documentary, since most of the events describe in the book are based on actual events. The foundation of the novel is the degradation of a character who is widely loved around the continent. This aspect makes the story to have a depressing facet of the book. The Main character is Simon Bolivar, who is the president of the Great Colombia, union of nation. From the beginning of the book, Bolivar seems to be ... to recognize the traitors. Furthermore, he murders all the individuals who celebrated his death. On the other hand, he recompenses everyone who mourns his death. One of the mo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... American books were not written primarily to attack the very concept of the novel. The rejection of the usual values may be a reaction to the elite "whites" of South America, who typically held the best jobs and welded political power. The revolutionary spirit of discontent also may have driven it, which naturally is critical of the status quo. Most importantly, with the emergence of the "Boom" writers of the 60s to the early 80s, three common conflicts developed in Latin ... most of the books of the "Boom" take place in the city, the feeling of immense secrecy and suspicion reins throu...

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... dark garments of the female sex; better to leave the discipline of the world to the others; better be quit of martial ambition, the love of power, and all the other manly describes if so one can more fully enjoy the most exalted raptures known to the spirits, which are contemplation, solitude, love."( ... the long poem, The Oak Tree, which takes her three hundred years to write, and has it published. The achievement gives her great satisfaction and the sense of self-fulfillment. Also from the gloomy man changes into a person who can enjoy life: She had, it seems, no difficulty in sustaini...

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... alone when he came across a ruined city and asked himself " where were the people? Why was the enite city abandoned and empty?" (51) Experiences of loneliness ha a great effect on Sinbad's personality, soon he " fell into a misery and a diming of purpose." (56), his lifestyle of solitude and isolation led to depression, which is a psychological disorder that can leave ... emotional scars and blemishes on your personality later on in the future, being overly happy or sad, or being anti- social as a result. Due to the amnesia Charles" personality was forgotten, and Sinbad's personality was...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate