Hi all, This week we discuss Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, paying homage to the increasing demand for specialists (aka lust), the ridiculous professionalism/euphemisms of bureaucratic systems, and the racial depiction of Chino Porfirio. Question: What do you think is the role of the Brothers of the Ark in this story? Is there an …
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This book begins with one of the best opening lines I have read: “all the world began with a yes” (1). With this first line, Lispector introduces the perspectives of open-mindness, macro-thinking, and positivity required to read this novel. I also thin…
This book begins with one of the best opening lines I have read: “all the world began with a yes” (1). With this first line, Lispector introduces the perspectives of open-mindness, macro-thinking, and positivity required to read this novel. I also thin…
This book begins with one of the best opening lines I have read: “all the world began with a yes” (1). With this first line, Lispector introduces the perspectives of open-mindness, macro-thinking, and positivity required to read this novel. I also thin…
After finishing One Hundred Years of Solitude, I was left amazed at how much Garcia Marquez was able to fit into the novel. Not only where there seven generations packed into this book, but each generation had meaning and characterization, and there was plot points surrounding all the characters we meant. Of course, the importance […]
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In the later part of Gabriel García Márquez’s’ “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, we see the once simple town of Macondo struggle with disruptions brought over by the shiny new train. This comes in the form of modernization and capitalism which begins to take over with the start of industry in the banana plantation and …
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At the start of the novel, reading about the quaint, utopian Macondo that got excited over things like magnets and telescopes, I could predict that the outside world was about to change this quickly and for the worse – technology and organized re…
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At the start of the novel, reading about the quaint, utopian Macondo that got excited over things like magnets and telescopes, I could predict that the outside world was about to change this quickly and for the worse – technology and organized re…
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This book written by Garcia Marquez has left a certain hole in my pupil, one that looks backwards to my own history and that of my family’s. Though, I can argue that that hole was already there, I can also confess that it has and is always being shaded with some type of filter. Seldom […]
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To partly respond to the question posed in the lecture video, “Is this inevitable…. does history here have to mean deterioration and decay?” I have a rather abstract idea to propose. I do not believe Macondo’s history would always have to end in dete…
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