Since I finished a big chunk of the novel during reading break, I’ll focus today’s blog post on themes discussed in this week’s lecture video while discussing a bit more about some of the things that stood out to me about the novel’s end. Fi…
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Since I finished a big chunk of the novel during reading break, I’ll focus today’s blog post on themes discussed in this week’s lecture video while discussing a bit more about some of the things that stood out to me about the novel’s end. Fi…
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I found that I enjoyed the second half of One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez significantly more than I enjoyed the first half. Many of the symbols, broader themes, and patterns started to become more coherent for me, and this awareness infused each chapter with much more significance. The imagery of “spiral and collapse” has […]
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Hello Blog readers,We finished ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez this week. There was so much that happened, but it was hard to keep my head straight trying to identify and separate the members of the Buendia family. The n…
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Hello Blog readers,We finished ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez this week. There was so much that happened, but it was hard to keep my head straight trying to identify and separate the members of the Buendia family. The n…
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This reading of the second half of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” surprised me in a positive way. What especially caught my attention was the development of the main plot through the growth of the characters and the town of Macondo. The story follows the next generation of the Buendia family and their personal and […]
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Since I already addressed the whole book in my first blog post instead of splitting it up into two halves, I’m going to take a different approach this week: comparing Márquez’s style and themes against Borges’s. Whether it’s justified or not, the two often get paired together as the two great authors of Latin America […]
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There weren’t many, if any, characters I felt particularly connected or drawn to in One Hundred Years of Solitude, but Úrsula Iguarán stood out to me as the most consistent. As mentioned in my previous blog post, her ordered and assertive personality renders her a grounding presence in the novel, especially since she outlives most […]
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I think the latter half of One Hundred Years of Solitude is its best: when the utopian sheen of Macondo begins to wear off and fade rapidly, revealing a deeply flawed and potentially doomed town at its surface. Here the major themes of the novel become apparent, including some commentary on the nature of human civilization. Macondo, […]
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Wow, what a novel. I’m so happy we read this in class because I have been wanting to read it for ages. The second half of the book really went in a direction I wasn’t expecting with the political tensions, introduction of the modern labour workforces, …
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