100 days of solitude gabriel garcia marquez

Of Colonel Aureliano’s 32 battles, he did not win any of them, which made him understand that an armed revolution did not make any sense.

He also appoints Arcadio, his nephew, as military chief.Īrcadio never knew he was a bastard son and became the dictator of Macondo, although his tyrannical government was overthrown by the conservatives and he was eventually shot. sees Aguilar’s ghost again and loses his mind, so the family decides to tie him to a tree and there he dies of a heart attack.Īureliano becomes a colonel and initiates a period of civil war in Macondo, with him leading the battles along with a group of soldiers from the town.

The town was often visited by gypsies whose leader, Melquíades, always brought inventions that dazzled José Arcadio and made him obsessed, to the point of isolating himself in a laboratory to work on inventions that always turned out to be failures.Įventually, José Arcadio Sr. Soon Macondo began to grow, and at the same time, José Arcadio and Úrsula had three children: José Arcadio, Aureliano, and Amaranta. Since then, Aguilar’s ghost haunts him, making him flee from the town where they lived.Īlthough José Arcadio set out on the journey with many plans, the journey did not get very far, since halfway there they run out of resources and strength, so he d ecides to create a new town that he would name Macondo. Her fear was related to the possibility of having pig-tailed children, an anomaly that had previously occurred in the family.īut one day this celibacy imposed by the matriarch ended because of the offenses that Prudencio Aguilar had made to José Arcadio about his lack of manhood.įurious, José Arcadio kills him and that same night has sex with his wife. José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán were cousins and spouses, however, they had not consummated their marriage, due to Úrsula’s fears of incest. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the Buendía family for 100 years, a family that inhabited the town of Macondo. Loading fileĭownload book Summary of One Hundred Years of Solitude If you prefer, you can download the file by clicking on the link below.

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