Aureliano Buendia

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Depending on the surroundings one grows up in, those factors will determine what their behavior would be like. In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes about events that happen to the Buendia family in a town called Macondo. The first generation of the family decides to settle down and expand their family. Six generations later, Aureliano Buendia is born and is kept hidden in a room as if he never existed. Due to settings Aureliano grew up in, it affects his behavior in ways where he desires solitude rather than interacting with people, is ignorant of the world but is too knowledgeable when it comes to the wrong things, and does not comprehend the concept of love. By being lonely for an extended period of …show more content…

Considering that Aureliano has been by himself for a while now and does not understand how the world functions, one can say that he does not comprehend the concept of love. When his aunt came back from Belgium, Aureliano developed feelings for her even though she has a husband. He does not know what to do so he goes into the town for the first time and sleeps with a prostitute. Only after does he realize he is deeply in love with his aunt and goes to her to have sexual intercourse, “He made a silent signal toward the next room, where the door was half open and where Aureliano knew that Gaston was beginning to write a letter,” (Marquez 396). Aureliano has never been in a relationship nor does he makes sense of how one works because of the way he grew up. So when he meets his aunt for the first time, it is only natural for him to ponder about her. Since he grew up secluded from the world, he does not know it is wrong to have sex with a relative despite the fact that they do not know they are family because Aureliano’s grandmother told everyone he was found in a basket. In addition, the half open door symbolize inner exploration and self-discovery which emphasizes that Aureliano is experiencing love for the first time. To be a loner means that Aureliano does not grasp the meaning of being in

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