100 Years of Solitude

" 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. ... There are explicit examples of this ideology within the life-span of Macondo and the Buendia family; attributing to both an emotional and physical solitude. ... In addition, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula continue to in a pursuit for "solitude." ... 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 a...

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• Approx Pages: 2

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. ... 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; Milkman finds his wings and flies upon the air, as his father's grandfather had; Aureliano finds that Melquiade...

• Word Count: 769
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

With advances in technology, people are living longer and thriving, sometimes living into their 90's and 100's. ... Many treat the elderly as 'trash', and simply consider them as people who are out of their prime years. ... The old man is ridiculed, shown cruelty, and put in solitude. ...

• Word Count: 712
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Nathaniel Hawthorne The 19th century had many great achievements happen within its 100-year time period. ... Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated after four years. ... Within two years Hawthorne would be married to his wife Sophia. ... After two years, however, he resigned from this " very grievous thralldom." He had been able to write little more than notebook entries and he found " nothing in the world that he thought preferable to his old solitude." ...

• Word Count: 1026
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The insightful documentary "Grizzly Man" and the book "Into the Wild"" are both about two men who are unhappy in the world they live in and believe they can make a difference in their lives by finding some peace and solitude in nature. ... Timothy Treadwell gave up his life to live with the Alaskan Grizzly bears for 13 summers doing what he loved while collecting over 100 hours of valuable educational footage. ... He might have died, but it is not always about the years in your life, but about the life in your years. ...

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In 1967, just as her artistic career was peaking, Martin stopped painting and over the next seven years built herself a house in New Mexico and devoted much of her time to writing and lecturing. ... Following the death of her father, a wheat farmer, a few years later, she moved with her mother, sister, and two brothers to Vancouver, British Columbia, where she attended local primary and secondary schools. ... "It took me several years to find out that the cause was an overdeveloped sense of responsibility." In her six years of self-rediscovery, Miss Martin did not paint at all, concentrating i...

• Word Count: 3087
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate