You must post 2 times before next Monday, November 8th. Your first post should be completed by this Thursday, November 4th. 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 in this text do you see the connections between what Freud says about human motivation 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.
- 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 do not understand this book, I know what it is talking baout, but I would like to know what made Marquez write what he has. It really makes me think and I am compelled to read more always, because I just have no clue what is to come. I am confussed the most about Jose Arcadio and Rebecca's relationship and now marriage, I just don't understand how it came to be.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of Rebeca. This girl looks alone, not sure what to do or how to act. She also looks mute for she is sitting alone with no expression. Page 41 says, "From the moment she arrived...observing everyone with her large, startled eyes without giving any sign of understanding what they were asking her." As well on page 41 "She would sit in her small rocker sucking her finger in the most remote corner of the house."
I understood most of the chapter except for the part about the war, which starts on page 98 and continues til the end of the chapter. Who is on the Conservative side and who is on the Liberal side? Also, what does Dr. Noguera have to do with the war? Are the fake pills simply the pretense under which Aureliano goes to visit Dr. Noguera, or do they have some other significance?
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ReplyDeleteThis painting reminds me of the description of the village of Macondo at the beginning of the book. The painting showing just some of the row's adobe houses along the river. The description reveals it as some kind of an Eden.
Page 1.
"At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like prehistoric eggs. The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of Pietro Crespi, the guy who assembles and tunes the pianola. Without this being an actual pianola, but a piano, and he has dark hair instead of blond hair..I pictured him to look like this; dressed nicely and professionally, like a musician.
Page 59-60
"Pietro Crespi was young and blond, the most handsome and well-mannered man who had ever been seen in Macondo, so scrupulous in his dress that in spite of the suffocating heat he would work in his brocade vest and heavy coat of dark cloth."
I think that how Ursula acted with Arcadio was interesting on page 116-118. She was mourning his upcoming death even though she hated the way that he ruled the land. I think this is because she was still sad over the loss of Remedios. Because Archadio was her grandson, she must have had an emotional tie with him as well. She just wants the best for him and did not want him to die the way that he did. As the grandmother and protector, she thought it was her right to keep him safe and alive.
ReplyDeleteAn element of the story that I find interesting is the description of Colonel Aureliano Buendia on pg. 103. He reminds me of "The Most Interesting Man in the World" from the Dos Equis commercials. His accomplishments seem surreal but he would be considered an accomplished man if they actually happened.
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"He shot himself in the chest with a pistol and the bullet came out through his back without damaging any vital organ."
"He lived through a dose of strychnine in his coffee that was enough to kill a horse."
The Most Interesting Man in the World
"He tells the alarm clock when its time to wake up."
"When he goes to sleep, sheep count him."
"He doesn't use oven timers, he tells the food when its done."
"Sharks have a week dedicated to him."
Colonel Aureliano Buendia is the most interesting man in Macando.
This is in response to dans comment...i find your idea to be interesting. Aureliano used to be a quiet boy who could predict things and now hes a BA and fights in wars and shoots himself.
ReplyDeleteI'm very confused on this book. I understand a lot more now that Ms. Dale has talked about it in class more but i don't understand how the war got started? Also i'm not quite understanding the relationships between all of the characters..as well as the dream part of it. You said the book is based on dreams but that confuses me as well. And i'm not sure why the liberals have to surrender?
ReplyDeleteI don't really understand what is happening to JAB throughout the book. He is crazy, then he's normal, then he's crazy again, then he's not, etc. But in class today we talked like he's really not crazy? HOW is he not crazy ... pg( 106) "He stayed there, exposed to the sun and rain as if the thongs were unnecessary, for a dominion superior to any visible bond kept him tied to the trunk of the chestnut tree."
ReplyDeleteand that was Halle! not charlie.
ReplyDeleteI think it is sometimes hard to keep the names of all the family members straight. I like how characters come and go throughout the story. There are a lot of different personalities in the book.
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of Jose Arcadio when he returns to town and no one can recoginze him beside his mother Ursula. He has returned a much bigger, stronger, and tattooed man. Although the man in the painting is laying down which to me shoes some kind of weakness it also says in the text that he seemed tired so i think this shows both strength but also that he is weak and tired from him travels.
" A huge man had arrived. His square shoulders barely fitted through th doorways. He was wearing a medal of Our Lady of Help around his bison neck and his arms and chest were covered with cryptic tattooing." (page 88)
This book is hard to keep straight with all of the different people with the same names. I don't understand how Aureliano can't die either. He has more than his fair share of encounters, does that mean he has a big part later in the sotry...?
ReplyDeleteI really liked the ideas brought up in class today about how JAB wasn't quite as crazy as everyone else thought, but was instead more enlightened than the others. While everyone else seemed to be going about day to day life in Macondo, JAB always seemed to be searching for new ideas and experimenting with things. Maybe the fact that nobody else shared the sames interests, level of knowledge, or cared about his ideas and theories made him more introverted, and therefore more insane. This really got me thinking about how some of the crazier people in history turn out to be the geniuses.
ReplyDeleteI am commenting on Maddie's post. I completely agree with her. This book has so many characters, and a lot of them basically have the same names. Arcadio's last dying wish was about naming his children. I'm sure most of our last dying wishes would be to do something that revolves around ourselves, or something that only benefits ourselves. This shows how unselfish he is being at the time of his death, because he is putting his family first and foremost.
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ReplyDeletei think that this photo is a good representation of the first line of the entire book. "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." I think that the fish in the photo represents death that he can clearly see. Behind the fish are memories and the light colors represent ice.
To comment on Maddie and Laurie's posts about Arcadio's dying wish, I think that the fact that Arcadio wants to pass on his parents'/grandparents' names shows not only the importance of passing on names, but also the importance of family. Although Ursula had recently whipped Arcadio and embarrassed him in front of his soldiers, he still thinks of her lovingly right before he dies. He hasn't had a good relationship with Ursula and JAB lately but family is so important to him that he still wants their names passed on to his own children.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that this painting is a good represenation of when the gypsies came to the city for the first time. It doesn't show the gypsies or any people, but it has a telescope in the center of the painting which symbolizes what the gypsies brought with them. On page 2 it says: "In March the gypsies returned. This time they brought a telescope and a magnifying glass the size of a drum, which they exhibited as the latest discovery of the Jews of Amsterdam."
Not only does the picture represent a variety of things I invision the gypsies bringing with them, but it also contains a lot of religious pictures and symbols. Marquez wrote 100 Years of Solitude with a lot of religious refrences to the Bible, which is why i felt this painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder fit the story very well.
In response to Will's post, i agree with him. It is very challenging to keep all the character's straight, especially since they all have similar names that are hard to pronounce.
ReplyDeleteI disagree with him on the fact that I don't like how the characters come and go in the story, it just seems to be more confusing.
I took notes over the last reading assignment we had and wrote down all the characters I came across. This seemed to really help keep them straight in my mind and made it less confusing when we had the class discussion because I could just reference the notes.
This is to will's comment-
ReplyDeleteI agree that it's hard to keep the family members straight and how there's two of the same name. It gets really confusing, and then i don't know who does what in the book. I also agree that there are a lot of different personalities in the book so you have to almost write it down and make your own little organizer to keep everything straight..it's complicated. But i've understood a little better after discussing it in class.
This is in response to Will's comment. I am very easily confused with this book. I feel like there are a lot of little details that I just do not remember. I have tried to slow down my reading but it doesn't help. I get extremely confused with the characters because they all have such similar names. I get very flustered when all the characted come in and out of the story line.
ReplyDeleteWhen we go over the book in class I seem to understand it but when I go home to read it I must confuse myself again. I try and take ntoes while you are explaining it to us in class but I never can seem to take enough so I am not confused at home.
This is in response to Halle's comment...
ReplyDeleteEveryone in this book is purty much crazy, but that's kind of what makes the book interesting once you've expected something to happen out of no where. You never know who is going to show up next or what they're going to do. That's what keeps me reading!!!!
This is in response to Will's comment.
ReplyDeleteI also find it hard to keep all of the characters straight in the story. Right when I think I'm starting to understand I get confused again at trying to keep everyone's stories in line. The only character I remember all the time is Pilar.
This is in response to Charlie's (Halle's) comment. Through the last few chapters JAB has not had a very major role. I don't think he is there for any reason as to show how they can grow very old there. Also, in today's reading, it showing how he got obese and how he stays at the tree because of habit. I don't think that he really wants to be at the tree, but he has just accepted the fact that he will always be there. If the is being crazy...that is up to the reader to interpret.
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In response to Will's comment i completely agree. I find it really hard to remember who all the characters are because their names are so similar. When i read it, i finally feel like i am understanding it and then when i get to class i get really frustrated because i thought i knew what was going on and i am completely off. i think i would understand it more if we had nickname's for each character because i know i always remember who Jose Arcadio Buendia is because we named him JAB.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Will's comment, I totally agree! The characters all sound the same to me and it messes me up. I understand and can follow whats going on but i don't know what people its between. In regards to Caroline's post above her idea with nicknames is a good idea.
ReplyDeleteThis is Lizzy Stachon. I think it is really difficult to keep the names and characters straight. Also, as the storyline jumps around in time, I get reaaaaaaaaaaally confused.
ReplyDeleteIn response to Willow's comment, I agree with him that the names are too similar. Why couldn't they have normal names such as TreDarius or De'Sean? I think the author is using similar names for a reason, though. I think with all of the Arcadio's, later on in the story will become more confusing due to name similarity...but that won't stop me from reading!!!
ReplyDeleteLizzy Stachon again.. In response to Halle's comment. The characters are crazy and hard to follow, but that's what is interesting. It's very unexpected. I like not being able to predict what is going to happen next.
ReplyDeleteThis is in response to Rachel's post. I do believe that the pills that he passes out, whoever is taking them is on the liberal side and that's how they could spot who else in the town was on their side. Or i might've just made that up? But that's what I was guessing!
ReplyDeleteIn response to Tanelle's comment I agree, I think that its is intereseting how he is somehow able to make himself larger at will, which I dont entirely understand. I find it interesting how Aureliano was able to know what state his father was in and able to know that he would soon be dying.
ReplyDeleteI"m confused as to why the relationships are so weird, like why is there incest in the book. Whats confusing to me is all the same names, and who dies because i never can keep straight who dies. The book is interesting because it seems that a lot has personafication for example the blood, and it's interesting.
ReplyDeleteI am confused why General Moncada and Colonel Aureliano Bundia all of a sudden became friends. They were enemies and were on completely different sides in this war. I don't understand how and why it happened?
ReplyDeleteIn the book it says, "From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would arrange truces to exchange prisoners. They were pauses with a certain festive atmosphere, which General Moncada took advantage of to teach Colonel Aureliano Buendia how to play chess. They became great friends. They even came to think about the possibility of coordinating the popular elements of both parties...."
I think it is very interesting how Fernanda was brought up to think she was going to be a queen. I think that her upbringing affects how she acts around the rest of the house on pages 210-213. She changes many things about the house, making it more "civilized and Christian." I think that this will have negative effects in the end because she will seem like an outcast to the rest of the family because of her behaviors.
ReplyDeletePilar is the type of character that is very needy and has to have constant attention on her at all times I feel like and she wants to feel loved. She started off as a chore girl but then suduce's Arcadio. I think that her actions are negative, she makes the Buendia's care for her son that she had with Arcadio. She comes off as selfish.
ReplyDeleteI also do not understand why General Moncada and Colonel Aureliano Bundia are all the sudden great friends? Is it just because they found omsething in common? Or that they could help eachother in war? But doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of a war if you are making many truces with the enemy?
ReplyDeleteThe way that Remedios the Beauty acts creates a lot of misunderstanding and interest among the Buendia family. She seems as if she incapable of reason and is unaware of her environment, yet men still want to be in a relationship with her, which is hard to understand. It effects the family because they are forced to look after her since she us not able to take care of herself
ReplyDeletegoodneeessss this book is hard to keep straight. I think they should stop bringing in all of these new characters into the story. It seems like characters will disappear for awhile and comeback later in the story, but i don't feel they really explain why they were gone very well.
ReplyDeleteI think this book is very confusing. There are so many characters and its hard to follow. I don't like it when other characters leave and out of now where come back.
ReplyDeleteI think that the author has a very creative mind he made these characters with very unique characteristics. It is a very DIFFERENT kind of book. All the characters make this book what it is. other than being a confusing book its sort of interesting.
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ReplyDeletethis picture relates to Jose Arcadio Buendia being tied to the tree
i agree with megan.. Remedios the beauty is dumb, and its crazy how she treats these men,but at the sametime i like her because she calls the men simpletons, and i feel like boys are such simpletons!
ReplyDeleteI am respoonding to Laquetta's response because it made me laugh, even though it was in response to my own comment. Remedios as i read more, seems to be a continual problem in the Buendia home and I am confused about the deaths of the Buendia's. Ursula stated that she was aware that all the members of that family seemed to die, without any illness and that it sort of just came out of nowhere, and she is completely right, the members of that family, even seem to know that they weill be dying and prepare the members of their family for their death. Amantra made arrangements for everything before she died, which seemed to ease the families grief.
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ReplyDeletethis picture reminds me of the imagery used for the banana plantation. The banana plantations were a big part throughout a better part of the entire novel.
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ReplyDeleteThis is exactly what ithought the trees of the banana plantation that came to macondo would be filled with. Just big giant bundles of bananas covering the trees.
Will's picture is exactly what I imagined the Banana Plantation to be like.
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this is what I picture the banana's to be like. I think the plantation workers massacre was a major part of the book because Jose Arcadio Segundo was the only witness and he went crazy because no one believed him.
In response to both will and liz the banana plantation was a very important addition to the story. Because it sparked new relationships introduced new characters and ended with one of the most memorable parts of the book, the massacre
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone's comment. The names are all confusing and they all sound the same. Maybe if JAB didn't play the field as much, he wouldn't have so many kids named exactly alike.
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ReplyDeleteI felt the need to post a picture. So many kids!!!