1. Time and Memory - One Hundred Years of Solitude
... of several hundred years show the evolution of Macondo; from the years 1850 to 1950. In the beginning things lacked names in the town and the newly established town is compared to Eden "where human memory has been wiped totally." Memory is quite complex in this novel. ... Sultana Wahnon elaborates this by talking about the "scourge of forgetting. At the time when Jose Arcadio and Ursula grasp the reins of their fate, the Buendia clan is of a lineage that is predisposed to forgetting historical experience." The implication ... sacred purpose to any of them, Colonel Aureliano Buendia deve...
- Word Count: 2652
- Approx Pages: 11
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School