Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Week #3
As we begin to explore the second and perhaps even the third generation of the Buendia family, I expect you to dig deeper, to unearth and expose the roots of their twisted family tree. Remember: two required posts and one additional for extra credit, if so desired. Some of you need it!! All postings due by Friday, at the start of class. No late work accepted, no exceptions.
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ReplyDelete“It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.” (224)
ReplyDeleteIn this quote Marquez was trying to get the reader to think about Macondo. It was giving the reader the idea that maybe Macondo was almost a testing place for God. As if God made this perfect community at first and is throwing in more and more reality as the years go on.
"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can." pg. 241
ReplyDeleteColonel Aureliano Buendia said this towards the end of the chapter when the town was on the verge of starting another war. In the beginning of the book Macondo was a perfect community where nobody lived over the age of 30 and nobody died. Now the town has changed so much with all of the sense of reality and wars that people are dying.
Chapter 13: In this chapter Ursula is getting really old really fast. When Jose Arcadio II goes away and Ursula's children leave the house, it becomes quiet until Meme comes home from school for vacation and has a big party with 72 people. At the end of the chapter Jose Arcadio Segundo talks to the Colonel but he dies. I think that Ursula getting old and going blind has some significance but i don't know what. Something more is going happen to her as we read on. Meme coming home from school and throwing a party like she did indicates she takes after her father.
ReplyDeleteChapter 14: In this chapter Macondo is going through changes and transformations. Macondo is now divided into two groups- Native villagers, and Europeans and Americans. The "power elite" that own plantations are the Americans and the Europeans. The production/trade and fruit sellers are beneficial for the plantation owners. However, for the workers on the plantation its bad value, low wages, and poor conditions. Macondo has transformed into this and it will be interesting to see what Macondo will be when we finish the book.
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