You must post 2 times before Monday, November 21st. Your first post should be completed by Friday, November 18th. It should 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.
- Where do you see connections between what we've learned about Freud's ideas concerning the unconscious and our dreams and the way Gabriel Garcia Marquez has chosen to write this text? Give specific examples including passages from the text. Cite page numbers.
- On page 68, Jose Arcadio Buendia says that "Love is a disease." What evidence is there of the destructive powers of love and lust in this novel in terms of how an individual can be affected and the impact it can have on relationships?
- Find a piece of art which you feel represents a passage or portion of the text. (You will need to paste the link to the artwork in your blog post so that other students may view it.) Explain your choice. Support your explanation by comparing the passage from the text with details from the artwork. Cite page numbers. Do not simply Google "One Hundred Years of Solitude art", do a little more of an in-depth searching on your own.
- 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.
I find the text that is used particularly hard to understand because of the way it is worded. Also the way the story jumps around from character to character can be confusing. For instance on page 19 and 20 when they try and explain the cousins that fall in love, it is described in a hard way to understand. They use great-great grandmother and grandfather which is hard to trace back to the generation we are reading about. The question I am trying to understand is why Ursula Iguaran left her newborn daughter Amaranta?
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ReplyDelete"when Ursula discovered his absen*ce she searched for him all through the village. She kept getting farther away from the village until she felt so far from the village that she did dont think about returning." She just leaves her husband and other kids behind to find her son because she loves him so love its like a disease.
ReplyDeleteI don't quite understand why they are all named the same name. Why do they find it necessary to name them the same, then they can't tell them apart. (the family tree) I also don't understand why they keep trying to move around. I thought the place they started was sufficient enough for them. Like on page 9 it says that Jose made the whole new town and made it so that everyone was equal.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Emily, the whole story is hard to understand. They use words that don't really make sense and having their kids named the same doesn't make it any easier either. They need to use Aureliano 1, 2, etc.... I also don't understand why Ursula left her newborn daughter, I would think that she would want to be close to her considering she just gave birth to her and she is her daughter.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Emily and Allie. Its hard to understand how a mom would leave her new born. In today's society we typically hear of fathers leaving versus mothers. However, I do understand that she was looking for her son but a new born needs a lot more attention.
ReplyDeleteThe story over all is pretty interesting. But at the same time it gets very boring very quickly. Some elements of the story if not read thoroughly can come up confusing. When they talk about Family and the people that are dated back centuries such as Great great grandmothers, it can be hard to keep up. Ursula is a very interesting character because she not only left her baby but disappeared for months and came back out of nowhere. Doesn't explain much for me. Especially when they constantly jump from story to story to character to character.
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ReplyDeleteI think that all the same names are confusing. I think its weird how Ursula left her newborn right after it was born. Everyone follow @freetownsfinest. The story is kind of boring and long because they say the same name over and over again.
ReplyDeleteI agree with DarboHam because he throughly described the book in a way I could comprehend and he has made me want to read more of this book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Paith when she says Ursula is a very interesting character. I think it is very weird of her to leave her new baby, and disappear for for months. Then she comes back at a random time and out of nowhere. This is very strange and maybe by the time we are done reading it will make more sense and describe the reasoning better.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Emily, Allie, and Maddie said as well. It is difficult to understand through the way the novel is worded. I understand how today people tend to name their children after the parents, but in today's society, we would add "Jr." "the third" or "Sr." after the name. In the novel, they just use the same name and becomes confusing to which character they are referring to. It's also odd that Ursula would leave her newborn daughter right after she had her. I also find it odd that the family did not realize that she had left until she came back. Most people today would realize something like that right after the person leaves.
ReplyDeleteLike Emily and Allie said, the names are confusing because there are so many of at the same name, and I understand that passing on the name for some families means a lot and keeping the name in the family is very important, but when it is in a book, and not in real life it makes it much harder to keep track of who is who. They should number them like Allie said. That would make it a lot easier to keep track of the people throughout the book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Paith. The story gives you a lot of information very quickly and is always progressing. The characters are easily confused because of the whole name thing. I think if the author spent more time on each character I could better understand.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Paith. the story gives you a lot of information very quickly and is always grogressing. The characters are easily confused because of the whole name thing. I think if the author spent more time on each character I could better understand.
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ReplyDeleteI'm a little confused at how the book uses time. It jumps around a lot, like at the begining the kids were little and now they are older closer to their twenties and ready to start there own familes. The book skips a most of the childrens childhood's. I thought this book was suppose to be about the generations of one family in the coruse of a hundred years. But it went through the first twenty or so rather quickly. For example Amanranta was born on page 30, and is already grown up and in her teens getting ready to start a family by page 54. I don't know where the story is going to go on from here.
ReplyDeleteI think it's interesting how Don Apolinar Moscote wants to create a government in the peaceful town of Macondo. On page 58, Jose Arcadio Buendia describes how they moved from their old town to Macondo and there haven't been any deaths or anything happen that wasn't peaceful. The people seem to be living just fine. Why would he suddenly want to come disrupt the peace in this little town and become a leader? And he wants to make everyone paint their house the same color. What does that do for him? Does he just take pride in controlling people? Some people can be so selfish.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Paith that the story is confusing as it jumps from story to story. I think it would be a lot easier to read if he just wrote it in chronological order instead of jumping from generation to generation. A question I have is where in the world is Macondo located? I am also confused as to which language they speak...sometimes it's Spanish, then Indian, then a native language. Which one is it?
ReplyDeleteTo answer the Ursula question, I think that Ursula left her newborn because she knew she wasn't going to be gone forever, and she trusted Jose to take care of her when she was gone. She has had children before, and probably understands that Jose is capable to take care of them. And I also agree with Allie that they should specify which Aureliano they are talking about, or call them by a nickname to make it easier to understand.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with what Emily said, the book is very confusing and I dont quite understand why she would leave her new born baby. I also agree with what Allie said they need to be named by numbers its to confusing with all them being named the same name.
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ReplyDeleteI am confused about where Rebeca came from in the first place? Before I thought that Macondo was somewhat secret to the rest of civilization, and only the gypsies would make appearances, but all of a sudden there is a little girl that has a letter saying that she is related to Jose Arcadio Buendia. Also, what person carries the bones of her deceased parents. I think that if people other than the gypsies knew about the town then people would have already tried to create government in the town like Don Apolinar Moscote tried.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Emily and Allie. The name thing get very confusing every time something is said about the father I think it is something about the son that is missing. They should go by numbers like Allie suggested. Also I don't know how Ursula would be able to just get up and leave her baby. Mothers and daughters are supposed to have a more powerful bond. This story focuses more on the men in the community rather than the women. Maybe that is why Ursula was able to leave; she believes her son is more important than her daughter.
ReplyDeleteTrent is wrong. Thats all i have to say about that. His reasoning is horrible and he should be hung for it. It would be best for him to leave the class. The other people he referred to though were correct. like allie saying they should name them all 1,2,3.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Angie. I think it's strange how Moscote wants to build a government in a town that clearly is in no need of one. The people are obviously doing just fine on their own. They shouldn't bring in a government until they see that there is corruption and misconduct. There is nothing to fix in the town so therefore, no government is needed. Moscote should take his stupid ideas and leave.
ReplyDeleteThe book is pretty good. I wasn't interested in the begining of the book. It started out confusing then later the story it starts becoming interesting. I like that the kids have special abilities. My favorite character is Aureliano because able to tell whats going to happen. On page43 when Visitacion saw Rebeca's eyes how they light up in the dark like cats eyes. I thought she might have been a demon or something unnatural.
ReplyDeleteYeah Riley said it all for me.
ReplyDeleteThis story is everywhere. No lie it does keep it interesting but after a little bit of time i find myself wondering what happened as if i skipped a couple chapters.
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I agree with Riley that the time aspect of it makes it more confusing than it needs to be. By skipping most of their childhoods, we miss out on a lot of possible information about them. If the author had included at least a few important things in between it would connect a lot of pieces of the story that don't really make sense.
ReplyDeletePaith also talked about how confusing the timing is in the story. They jump around in talking about history and then talking about what's happening now too.
Both of them presented good points that I agree with.
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ReplyDeleteOn page 68 Jose Arcadio Buendia quotes that "Love is a disease" This quote can be related to several situations in the book. First, the quote was used to explain why his son was set on getting married to the daughter of one of their families enemies. It can also apply to when Ursala left her family to find her son. It was because of how much she loved him that she went looking for him. Also, Jose Arcadio cheats on Pilar with the gypsy girl on page 33. Love being a disease is a good way to explain how he was able to cheat.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jose Arcadio Buendia when he says that "love is a disease" on page 68, like when Jose Arcadio left to marry the girl he was in love with, even though he knew it was wrong he really couldn't control his actions because of how much he loved her which then affected his mother.
ReplyDeleteWhen Jose Arcadio Buendia says that love is a disease, he is pointing out how much pain and hurt can come from love. Even though one might love someone, it can cause them much pain or suffering by doing so. When Ursala leaves her child during the story, I'm sure it wasn't very easy for her to do. After all, it is her child. I assume she loves it very much but she felt she needed to leave. Even though she loves it, it causes her pain.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Paith that the timing is very confusing. It's almost as if parts of the story are missing, or they skipped important things. Sometimes it's hard for me to understand what's going on.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Angie, I didn't understand why Don Apolinar Moscote was trying to create a government in Macondo when there wasn't anything that wasn't peaceful, when everyone in that town was happy and living well why he felt that he needed to come in and change everything. I also agree that there was no real reason to make everyone paint all of their houses blue, it definitely seemed more of just a wanting for more control.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Angie, because I don't think there's a need for a government. Nothing's wrong with the town, and I think it's peaceful without a ruler or government power. I agree that Moscote is acting selfish and trying to be in control of everyone else's actions.
ReplyDeleteThis is really late.....The book overall is extremely difficult to follow. It seems like its completely changing stories in the middle of the story. It is also really wordy. I also believe that sometimes the book’s tales get so outrageous that you sometimes can’t even understand what’s going on. I think everything also way over-exaggerated.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Cole. They don't explain things fully and make it difficult to understand why things are happening. I also agree that its extremely weird to carry around bones of deceased members of your family along with many other weird things in the book.
ReplyDeleteSo this is way late, but for the whole "love is a disease thing," I would have to disagree. One of the few people that are actually in love, Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia seem to have a happy marriage. Yes, their children cause them a lot of grief, but it is because the majority of them are in a state of lust, not love.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Colin, I certainly agree with him saying the book is difficult to follow. My major issue is the pace of the book. One moment they are going trough a small segment of time in great detail, then the next few, they are jumping ahead years at a time. As for the book being exaggerated, remember that it is magic realism.
ReplyDeleteThis book is awesome. The book seems to be a little confusing with the very large words being used. On page 7 the word Naciancenes is used, who has the word in there vocabulary? I also find the characters to be a little confusing, there are many characters introduced and each of them seems to have a hard name to remember. In my opinion they should all be common names so the plot would be easier to understand.
ReplyDeleteI agree what with Ethan who believes the children are not in love but in lust. Love is a disease, but when your family is all in love with each other thats kind of weird. The Buendia family is very different then a modern family in the way they treat each other with lust and what not.
ReplyDeleteThe repeated names they use to name their children can be confusing for example, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Jose Arcadio, then Aureliano Buendia, etc. is Buendia a last name? I would think that when they are called by their names it would be hard to know who is actually being called. The Family Tree in the front of the book is a little helpful.
ReplyDelete"Love is a disease" I think it is completely true and for example on pg 65 how Rebeca got up in the middle of the night and ate handfuls of earth because her love did not show like expected. She is madly in love and was not in a stable condition when she tried to commit suicide.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Ethan and Ryan, they do seem like they are in a ripple affect of lust. The family is very confusing and especially when it comes to getting married, and with whom. Love can be a disease but also in a good way because if one loves only one person and they do not think about lust then it is good.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jenny, the names are very confusing. And without the family tree it would be hard to keep up with all the family members.
ReplyDeletein this novel, love is destructive through the means of how it completely changes between people, and how Colonel Aureliano Buendia has 17 different partners and he had been attempted to be killed multiple different times
ReplyDeleteagree with Ethan and Ryan as well because many of the names almost completely play off of each other and would be very confusing without the family tree
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