Casilla, Megan

Capia-ao, Annie Lee

Cercado, Creizel

Agner, Jordache

Arceo, Ivan James

Acosta, Mercedes

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

The Author

• Aracataca, Columbia

• Columbian Writer (novelist, journalist, screenwriter)

• Latin American Boom

• 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature

• 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature

GABRIEL ‘GABO’ GARCIA-MARQUEZ (MARCH 6, 1927)

MAGIC REALISMMAGIC IS CONSIDERED TO BE A

PART OF THE DAILY REALITY AND FANTASY IN A LITERARY PIECE.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE• Cien Años de Soledad, in Spanish, published

on 1967 at Mexico City

• Gregory Rabassa translated it to English, One Hundred Years of Solitude.

• Modernism and/or Cuban Vanguardia (a group of avant-garde writers in the modern era)

• Sold over 20 Million copies; translated into 200 languages

• Novel. Third-person omniscient point-of-view

• Literary device: Chronological time element with occasional flashback

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE• Setting: (Time) 1800’s-mid1900’s; (Place)

Macondo

• Tone: detached, the author made his emotion of detachment evident in the story since he wants the reader to feel Macondo as a magical place

• Centralized characterization on the Buendia Family, especially Ursula Iguaran, the 1st generation Matriarch

• Conflict: traditional man vs modern man

• Based on true events like the Banana Massacre at the Banana Company

• Talks about the 7 GENERATIONS OF THE BUENDIA FAMILY

BUENDIA FAMILY TREEJose Arcadio

BuendiaUrsula

Iguaran

Amaranta

Jose Arcadio II

Rebeca

Col. Aureliano

Remedios

Mascote

Pilar Ternera

17 Aureliano’s

Remedios the Beauty

Jose Arcadio IV

Aureliano IIAmaranta Ursula

Aureliano III

Aureliano Jose

Arcadio

Sta. Sofia de la Piedad

Pietro Crespi

Fernanda del Carpio

Aureliano Segundo

Jose Arcadio Segundo

Petra Cotes

Renata Remedios (Meme)

Mauricio Babilonia

Gaston Gabriel Marquez

Melquiades

PLOTFirst Generation:

Jose Arcadio founded Macondo, a town far away from the capital. He and his family decided to stay in Macondo and live there. This is where the Buendia family started to live its legacy, a home in which it was founded solely for them. Ursula took the lead in looking over the family and turned Matriarchal. The novel starts with Col. Aureliano reminiscing the time when Macondo was founded by his father. And the time when gypsies come for a yearly visit led by Melquiades.

PLOTSecond Generation:

Ursula and Jose Arcadio built Macondo with their son Jose Arcadio. Col. Aureliano Buendia is Senior’s second son and was first to be born in Macondo. He had 17 sons from different women, all named Aureliano. Amaranta and Rebeca became really close to each other until a guy named Pietro Crespi came and the two girls fell inlove with him. Remedios Moscote comes to town with her father and Aureliano fell in love with her and married her. She’s very young so she died during her pregnancy

PLOTThird Generation:

Arcadio and Aureliano Jose had illegitimate sons with Pilar Ternera. They were named Arcadio and Aureliano Jose. Aurelio Jose became the leader of Macondo. Santa Sofia was hired by Pilar as Arcadio’s concubine and he ended up marrying her.

PLOTFourth Generation:

Arcadio and Sofia had Remedios, the most beautiful girl in Macando, she did not have a lover but had many suitors and she rose to the sky one afternoon. Arcadio and Sofia next had twins, Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo. Aureliano Segundo had Fernanda del Carpio as his wife but had Petra Cotes as his beloved mistress. Fernanda became the second Matriarch of the Buendia’s after Ursula since Ursula’s age can no longer hold on to being the Matriarch.

PLOTFifth Generation:

Jose Arcadio II, Meme’s brother, was brought up by Ursula. He was sent to the Vatican to become the Pope as what Ursula wished but came back with nothing. Renata Remedios a.k.a. Meme was Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo’s second child. She was sent abroad to study music and there she fell in love with Mauricio Babilonia and had an illegitimate son, Aureliano III. Fernanda adopted Aureliano III and pretended that he was adopted. Amaranta Ursula, the last child of Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo.

PLOTSixth Generation:

Amaranta Ursula had a sexual relationship with Aureliano II, not knowing that he was her nephew. Aureliano II Babilonia is Meme’s illegitimate child. Everyone thought he was adopted. He stayed in Macondo even though the town is already falling into ruins. Ursula and Fernanda dies and he was left alone to stay at the Buendia home. He found parchments made by Melquiades, which was actually the real fortune of the whole Buendia from Arcadio Senior down to his own death.

PLOTSeventh Generation:

Aureliano III is Meme and Aureliano Babilonia’s son. He was born with a pig’s tail as a result of mutation from incest. His father was so stricken with grief that he forgot about Aureliano III that ants have devoured the last of the Buendia bloodline.

THEMES“People could never escape their fate, time

is as endless as a cycle and no one can escape an unceasing cycle”

(decisions decide their fate)

Cycle of Time

(you cannot separate the past, present and future)

Power of Reading and of Language

(The use of written and abstract language)