One Hundred Years Of Solitude Analysis

Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez grew up enthralled with tales of magic and fantasy, he enjoyed them so much so that he would dedicate his life to the creation of stories for others to enjoy. His passion for storytelling and use of magical realism would lead him to create his career defining novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. On the surface it may appear a story that spans the timeline of the Buendia Clan and their intertwined fates but, through the use of biblical allusions throughout the novel his simple tale of a family becomes almost a retelling of the bible with a modern twist. Marquez expertly weaves in references to the unexplored paradise of the Garden of Eden, Satan’s temptation with the Tree of Knowledge, and lastly

Solitude is more than a state of being alone; it is recognizing the fact that the individuals whom one introduces to their environment will never learn to accept their differences. It is being aware that positive things will never be satisfiable enough to gratify those around you. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian author, illustrated the ideal picture of solitude in Latin America though his words he expressed in his Nobel Prize speech. Gabriel Marquez lived his childhood in a small isolated town in Columbia alongside his grandparents. Marquez was rudely denied a VISA to the United States due to his thoughts about the U.S military. However, Marquez was still able to publish and sell millions of copies of his novel “100 Years of Solitude” which later became the second most read book in Latin America, following the Bible. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Nobel Prize speech, “The Solitude of Latin America,” he uses the term ‘solitude’ as a metaphor for Latin America through negative stereotypes from other countries and Latin America’s geographic isolation.

Lars Brownworth took the pleasure of writing the novel “Lost to the West.” Where within this he elaborates on a period of history that is seamlessly ignored in history. Courses instructing this discipline habitually over look the ‘new’ Rome deeming it insignificant. Brownworth’s dominant emphasis is too merely educate his readers on this gap in history. Which he does commendably however; his interpretations are not ineludibly bipartisan and quite candidly that leads to the book to be less successful in its purpose. These biases include: subjectively identifying other nations, glorifying his obviously favorite emperors and villain-zing his less favorite. While his approach is chronologically adequate he plagues his book by not only the previously stated biases, but creating the book too brief, and having to decide what information is substantial to retain; which he decides.

There is hardly anyone that hasn’t had to grow up. Growth is central to every character in a story, but “Through the Tunnel” and To Kill a Mockingbird amplify this; the loss of innocence and coming of age is central to the entire story. Both “Through the Tunnel” and To Kill a Mockingbird’s main conflict test the characters (Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird and Jerry in “Through the Tunnel”) as they grow up in the face of adversity.

The two novels A Separate Peace by John Knowles and To Kill a Mockingbird both share major commonalities within the text, which take multiple glances to fully comprehend. For instance, one major commonality that both novels share is the recurring symbol that plays a major role in the character’s lives. That symbol is the tree. This tree that captivates both Scout and Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird, and the tree that shows the bond between Gene and Finny in A Separate Peace. Contrarily, in both texts, the authors use this same tree as a symbol of a loss between the characters.

Life is really hard, can you agree? But it may not be as hard as how the greasers had it. The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a first person view of a 14 year old kid who is in a gang called the Greasers. It is made up of 7 people (Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Dally, Steve, Johnny, Two-Bit). But the gang isn’t a gang that many people like, basically they are at the bottom of the food chain. In the gang, so many things happen, victory and loss, crime and kindness. There is always going to be an enemy, and for the Greasers, it’s the Socs. For no reason they always jump the Greasers, they would hurt them while the Greasers hadn’t done anything to them. So everything bad that happened to the Greasers were the Soc’s fault.

In Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, each character experiences suffering, and in each case the suffering is ridiculed. Schadenfreude is a basic human experience; human beings do find humor in other’s misfortune. Society is so accustomed to the feeling of schadenfreude that hardly anyone knows exactly where it comes from or how distasteful it is.

Perhaps most intriguing, Jenkins said that he had heard reports of a work crew of captive white men, whom he believed to be American prisoners of war. For many years, rumors circulated that American POWs from the Korean War remained in North Korea, but Jenkins said he understood the captives to be younger POWs, from the Vietnam War, sent by the North Vietnamese to Pyongyang as thanks for North Korean assistance during the war. He said that he thought they had been imprisoned at a “model farm” called Chongsan-ri. What North Korea would want with a work crew of American men is not obvious—the country has plenty of indigenous labor. The greater goal of assembling a menagerie of captive Westerners, Jenkins thinks, was to breed them. They would

While solitude and loneliness may appear similar, “ … all resemblance ends at the surface” (Estroff, 2003). Solitude is a desirable way to deal with problems when life begins to be too much as it was for Doc. Solitude also gives one an opportunity to start anew, as the burrowing gopher hoped it could. However, when solitude carries on for too long, it takes a strong will and a definite goal to avoid loneliness, the undesirable offspring of isolation and rejection.

Their hands were covered with slimy blood and the lamb slipped free. It crawled off into the underbrush... After some time had passed, Miss Lonelyhearts begged them to go back and put the lamb out of misery. They refused to go. He went back alone and found it under a bush. He crushed its head with a stone and left the carcass to the flies that swarmed around the bloody alter flowers." (23-24)

In chapter 8-10 in The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton, Ponyboy and Two-bit look around the hospital and find Johnny in critical condition, when they are talking to him about a big brawl coming up, the nurse walks in saying that Johnny's mother is there to see him. With that, Johnny goes crazy saying how she doesn’t really care and ends up knocking himself out cold, so Pony and Two-bit are forced to leave. When they were resting on a bench, Two-bit finds that Pony has a fever but Pony pleads for him not to tell Darry. When they got home, Pony swallowed about 6 aspirins but no food as the rest of the Greasers were talking about the big rumble against the Soc, it was time for the rumble in the parking lot and fist were thrown everywhere. Darry’s old

Losing a loved one is difficult, but questioning if they are really alive takes a toll on one’s daily life. In Heaven’s Keep, Jo’s plane disappears without a trace and no one can seem to find it until people start digging deeper into the story. ?Could Jo still be alive, but nowhere near where the plane disappeared? Her husband Cork, son Stephen, and family friend Palmer set out to find what really happened on that plane and where Jo really went. Visualizing Aurora, Minnesota, evaluating where the airplane went, and questioning how Jo died is simple because the author used great detail in the book Heaven’s Keep.

   One Hundred Year of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez projects itself among the most famous and ambitious works in the history of literature. Epic in scope, Marquez weaves autobiography, allegory and historical allusion to create a surprisingly coherent story line about his forebears, his descendants and ours.

What Makes To Kill A Mockingbird a Classic? What qualifications are needed in a book to consider it a classic? Some factors that take part in making a book a classic are; addressing universal concerns, shifts a person’s point of view on life, test of time, universal appeal, makes connections, etc.. To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic book because it stands the test of time, addresses universal concerns, makes connections and shifts a person’s point of view on life.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has dealt with historical themes in several of his fictions, but in One Hundred Years of Solitude, the author makes a statement about history and the importance of historical consciousness. In this paper, the view of history expressed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude will be the focus.