Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien a?os de soledad) is a very complex book. This is really what makes the book interesting for us to see. The complexity lays about the various problems it describes, the time from the story that lasts from 1st until 7th generation, the various conflicts of feeling, the magical realness that makes us wonder if the story is about magic or reality, the unpredictability from the story, and the puzzle that only could be answered in the very end from the story.Modest bridesmaid dress
This novel, whose writer won Nobel Prize in 1982, is exactly wonderful. It includes both tragedy and comedy that make you laugh in a single page and cry in another. In one way many plots and scenes are really real, but if you think about them deeply,party dresses it will feel weird and impossible. The most entertaining about this book is it has numerous never-ending, surprising weirdness like the ascending of Remedios, blood that may move miles and be somewhat 'warning' of someone's death, and a man that is followed by butterflies everywhere he goes.
100 many years of solitude is definitely an epic story which tells us concerning the founding of Macondo by Jose Arcadio Buendia, his wife Ursula Iguaran, and other 19 families. Macondo is based on the great swaps surrounded by mountains and coasts. At the outset of the story, Macondo is a very happy village, like what Gabriel describes, "it was a truly happy village where no one was over 30 years old and where no one has died".
As time goes by, many things happen--tragedy and comedy, laugh and cry, birth and death. The storyline begins from the 1st generation from the Buendias, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran; through the 2nd generation, Jose Arcadio, Col. Aureliano Buendia, and Amaranta; through the 3rd generation, Arcadio, Aureliano Jose, and 17 Aurelianos; through the 4th generation, Remedios The wonder, the twins Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo; through the 5th generation, Jose Arcadio (II), Renata Remedios (Meme), and Amaranta Ursula; through the 6th generation, Aureliano Babilonia (Aureliano (II)), before final, Aureliano (III) as the 7th generation.
In more than 100 years, the people of Macondo have witnessed many huge happenings, beginning with the arrival of gypsies (one of whom is Melquiades, an individual who finally becomes the friend from the Buendias), the civil war commanded by Col. Aureliano Buendia, the arrival from the gringos who build banana company, the arrival of railroad, telephone, and electricity, the arrival of unexpected plagues and natural calamities, before last, the 'taifoon' that can bring an end towards the village that lives in solitude for 100 years.Prom Dresses
In Columbia, in which the story takes place, machismo or excessive masculinity plays an excellent role in the society. Machismo has made some discrimination towards women. Based on Leyson (2001), machismo gives great value on female virginity. Other repressions towards women, specifically for sex liberation, are Western culture and Christianity (Roman Chatolic). Gabriel shows in the novel how machismo has held the society very strongly, particularly in ideology towards virginity of women as the assessment of moral value. He attempts to break the ideology by giving 'sexual liberation' to women.
Here, sexual liberation appears to be the symbol of freedom. The sexual strength of Pilar Ternera also symbolizes the power of women. This novel, nothing like every other epic stories, includes a woman, an extremely progressive woman, as the hero. And her name is Ursula Iguaran. Maybe Gabriel is a feminist, I don't know. But nonetheless, however free women have been in expressing their sexual desire; they're still those who get bad effect of this. Col. Aureliano Buendia who has 17 kids with 17 one-night-stand women isn't considered a bad guy or perhaps a whore, while Pilar Ternera who sleep with guys is called a bitch.
I read this book a couple of months ago and since I opened the first page, I possibly could not stop until I read the last line of the story. One sentence that I like and i believe is unforgettable from the story is 'The 1st in lines are tied to a tree and the last has been eaten by ants'. The sentence is straightforward but magical, I believe. Something that I realized very late is that Gabriel Garcia Marquez can also be one of the names of minor characters in the novel. Talking about my preferred character, obviously it is Melquiades. Subjectively, for the reason that he ever goes to one devote Indonesia (If you wish to know, just read the book by yourself). Also, he's such a key from the story, the missing bit of an extremely huge puzzle of life. I simply can give you one suggestion: read this book and spend your one-hundred-year life to complete it!
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