DQ #4

Why do you think Jose Arcadio Buendia did not want "The Magistrate" in their town?

Jose Arcadio Buendia practically runs the town of Macondo, and I don't think the answer goes much deeper than Jose Arcadio Buendia being selfish. He wants to rule the town by himself and he wants to be liked. He is using the magistrate as a personal gain; here is an example, Jose Arcadio Buendia says this, " In this town we do not give orders with pieces of paper." I believe that he is not just standing up to the magistrate, but he is also A. showing the magistrate that he is the leader of Macondo. B. He is showing the people of Macondo that he is the fearless leader, and the only leader. and C. He does not want anyone else to interfere with is leadership, because it solely belongs to him, and no one else. But then he continues on later by saying, "So that if you want to stay her like any other ordinary citizen, your quite welcome." This is showing The Magistrate who really is in charge and he is putting him The Magistrate at a lower level then him to make him feel as if he will have no control no matter the situation or outcome.

DQ #3 pt. 1/2

Family is a huge part of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The only thing within this small town that you can really trust is your family. They are the only ones that understand you (at times) and they are the only truly accepting part of your life. diving deep into Garcia Marquez's perception of family within the story and how it affects the plot you can see the Buendias a little more clearly.

On page 43, The Buendias accept a little girl known as Rebecca into their family, which was not only generous but natural. By natural I mean that it is clearly seen throughout the rest of the living world and mammals; this is especially seen in primates. quoted from page 43 is this: "It did not take long for them to consider her another member of the family." This is everything a family should be; generous,and loving.

Garcia Marquez paints a flawless portrait of family in his book and there is a million more examples of family id love to cite within this book, such as the closeness, the supportive behavior and the interaction between them all. However, i think it is clear how important "family" is to the plot in this book already.

YOU

Its hard to tell you about how I feel

and if you try to get past that my lips are sealed

and if you ask me you crept out the front door

'cause most likely life was a bore

I should of seen it coming

it aint like you were running

we could go back to the younger times

reminisce but stay within the confines

you made this life i call mine hard

the least you could do was sent a simple postcard

your death was slap in the face

i just wish we could touch base

make our lives interlace

embrace

so if you could come back, that'd be great

and the relationship we had we can recreated

Intergalactic

Intergalactic

My mother always told me

To shoot for the stars.

DQ #2

Gabriel Garcia Marquez takes a unique approach at how he uses time within his book. Time is somehow jumped weeks, months, or years later without the realization that it has done so, yet it the story is still understood and so is the time jump through description. On rare occasions, Marquez tells how much time has passed within the story just as the time jump happens such as on page 44. Marquez writes, "After several weeks, when Visitacion's terror seemed to have died down..." this was a straight forward approach that Marquez took that doesn't seem to be used in may other places.

Rebecca is an odd character to show up in the story but somehow she seems to fit right in. Rebecca had large eyes, "greenish" skin, and poor in health from lack of food. She wore a dress and had a bracelet that was a carnivorous animal tooth. She carried a rocking chair and a sack that held her parents bones that required a proper catholic burial. reflecting back on her character, she seems a little off. on page 41, Rebecca refused to eat and even drink water, yet a few days later she seems to be perfectly fine. When first coming to the village she carried a letter for Jose Arcadio Buendia, but for some reason they did not recognize the sender.To me, Rebecca is one of the most interesting characters in the story so far.

Righteous

Riptides follow in the paths of the demigods.
No, not demigods but human beings.
Humans that resemble god himself,
yet mock and threaten his seventh day.

Men claim to have built an empire with no flaw,
no crack,
no imbalance,
no nothing.

But its we who have tasted forbidden fruits,
and we who have had to look in Pandora's box.

So when time comes,
and god mocks us in return,
stocks and tsunamis will crash
while empires and democracy will crack,
and god will be looking down on us and say,
"look who's laughing now."

Home

I must look stupid,
seventy sum years short of dementia.
I see this town I've grown to hate and love majority of my life,
but as I look at these buildings and streets that are engraved in my memory,
it quickly dawns on me that this is so suddenly foreign.
Home is no longer home.

I close my eyes and bury my face of mixed emotions deep in to these palms so used to holding a paint brush,

and I think of where I have been and done,
and maybe,
just maybe,
I will be there again some other day.