One Hundred Years Of Solitude Sparknotes

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. We focus on the Buendía family and Macondo for several generation. Starting with Jose Arcadio and Ursula. Once they help find the town of Macando, we follow the lives of Buendía family members through the years. From the eccentric dealings of the first Jose Arcadio, to Remedios the beauty, to the last Aureliano born of incest, no one in the family is safe from the world, their family or themselves.

For me, what stood out the most about this book is just the beautiful writing. I didn’t think I was going to like the book when we first were assigned to read it. I just kept the writing flow, and it was very evenly paced, and I found myself genuinely interested in this crazy world of Macando.

saying to Ursula “We're going to rot our lives away here without receiving the benefits of science” But “civilization” reach Macondo with all its fury. The arrival of new immigrants, referencing the exploration and conquest of the New World: "a permanent commercial route over which the first Arabs arrived with their baggy pants and rings in their ears, swapping glass beads for macaws". Representing the urban development of Macondo and the basis of their pre-industrial development that is symbolized in the novel with the arrival of the musical clocks: "They were wondrous clocks made of carved wood, which the Arabs had ... every half hour the town grew merry with the progressive chords of the same song ..."

Melquíades continue to surprise José Arcadio Buendíawith his science “magic” and the return of the embodied in the invention of the daguerreotype unveiled by Niepce death. "But when he saw himself and his entire family fastened onto a sheet of iridescent metal for an eternity, he was mute with stupefaction”. Macondo also tastes inventions in the form of entertainment for children and the joy of youth in general. Represented by the “player