You must post 2 times before next Tuesday, April 26th. Your first post is to be in response to one of the prompts below. The second time you post, it must be in response to or in reaction to the post of another student.This novel presents several striking leitmotifs (frequently repeated phrase, image, symbol, or situation in a literary work which supports the theme). Leitmotifs in One Hundred Years of Solitude include cyclical patterns, prophecy, illegitimacy, fantasy, and of course solitude. Consider one or more of the following:
1. What patterns of behavior are emerging among the characters and how are these recurring patterns affecting life in Macondo?
2.) What events in Macondo, if any, have been prophesied with precision or at least seem likely to come true?
3.) List the many ways fantasy plays a part in the characters' lives. Are these elements of fantasy every ironic?
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Identify elements of the story that you find particularly confusing, interesting, or worthy of discussion. Pose your own questions. Include portions of the text that you feel contribute to your questions/your point. Cite page numbers.
3. Fantasy takes part in the Buendia's lifestyle because I think that's all they have ever known. For example Fernanda thinks she is a queen, even though she is not. Remedios flying into the air is fantasy and meme (fernanda's daughter also has fantasy in her life with the butterflies always surrounding her.
ReplyDeleteI still believe that the characters are very confusing. As the book goes on it seems that all the kids that are born are from the same women and their names are all the same. Gabriel Garcia Marquez really should have been a little more creative and came up with some different names.
ReplyDeleteFantasy plays a part in all of the Buendia family. I believe that Remeidios the Beauty is all a fantasy. The author describes her as the most beautiful women in the world and that men die for her. I think it is ironic because she shaved her head and wore a sheet as a dress. i do not see the attractivenesses in that. But people did did for her. Also JAB is a Fantasy, He stays tied to a tree his whole life and the irony is that when he is set free, he goes right back to the tree.
ReplyDeletein response to Jared, i agree. The characters all seem to have the same names. And like 5 different people go after one girl and then 17 sons are named Auriliano. i find it quite annoying. Couldnt the author just have named them Bob, Tim, or Fred? you know, normal names?
ReplyDeletein response to sean, I agree the names are very confusing. i can't keep all the sons straight. Why does the family insist that everyone be named after each other. When I think of people being named after each other, it seems like its supposed to be honorable but some of the family I wouldn't want to be named after.
ReplyDeleteThis book is very repetitive in everything, especially the names. It seems like when someone has a child the child is always named after someone in the ancestry. quite frankly, its hard to understand and is getting kind of boring because of the repetition. I think Gabriel could have cut this book in half and called it 50 years of solitude and he'd have a winner.
ReplyDeleteI think that that all of the names are confusing. It's frustrating how all of the characters are named the same name. Another thing that I find to be confusing is how this book takes place over so many years. The years are not really specified, so you don't know how much time has passed.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Meredith I will say the book is sometimes interesting because of the elements of magic realism in which she has mentioned. Otherwise I am getting kind of bored of reading it.
ReplyDelete1.A pattern that is emerging from the characters is that they are all becoming more independent and growing apart. They are starting to move out of Macondo, making new friends, and being less involved in family life. They are submerged in all of the affairs in their own lives growing apart from their family, which opposes what the beginning of the book was focused on.
ReplyDeleteI think that in Macondo there is a trend of shady business happening between the people in Macondo. They seem to all start turning against each other. When one person dies they seem to take another with them to the grave or leave others with a sense of sadness whom eventually end up killing them selves or another person because all these characters are crazy.
ReplyDeleteIn response to BEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I agree totally with what he said because this book is very repetitive and very confusing. Also because this book takes place over so many years. And this book is getting old.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Ben Boes, I agree 100 percent rip this trash in half and I might think about reading it. People need names of their own first so i can understand which character is being talked about and second so when 1 person dies I dont think they magically came back to life. People need their own identities.
ReplyDeleteHarmeyer can't figure this stuff out someone should hire him a nanny so she can do it for him.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Sean, I agree that the book contains much fantasy. I think there is too much of it with the men dying because of Remedios' beauty and I think the book is getting too repetitive with everyone continually dying.
ReplyDelete2. Events that have been prophesied are the death of Remedios the Beauty because they said that she would some day disappear randomly. The death of Amaranta has been foretold because she talks with Death and he says that she should start making her shroud.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Meredith I agree that fantasy exists in the book because that's all they've ever known. They've been isolated for so long on this island without contact to the outside world so the technology that they have is all because of the gypsies.