One Hundred Years of Solitude
Summary
One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by an Colombian author called Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, takes place in a fictitious town named Makondo. The story shows us the ri and fall of ven generations in one hundred years. What’s more, it depicts the deep-rooted loneliness in our humanity. It involves all aspects of society and family life, which can also be said the history and the culture of Latin American in microcosm.
Jo Arcadio Bndiya is Spanish descendant. After Ursula married him, she often wore straitjackets at night and refus to have connection with her husband, which was due toin the spotlight fear of giving birth to children with a long tail like the marriage of her aunt and uncle. Becau of that, her husband was laughed at their neighbor Aguilar and he killed Aguilar afterwards. From then on, the ghost of the dead with pain and sad eyes often appeared in front of him, so that he may not be at peace day and night. So they had to leave the village
for eking shelter. Inspired b人数英文y a dream, they traveled more than two years, and ttled down at a beach. Later, many people migrated to this place and named it Macondo. The history of the Buendia family was beginning from then on.
Jo Arcadio Bndiya is a creative people. When he saw magnet from gypsies, he wanted to u it for gold mining; when he saw that magnifier can focus on sunlight, he wanted to develop a powerful weapon. He ud astrolabe and sextant given by gypsies to make an experiment. T初一英文作文hrough it, he realized that "the earth is round, like orange". He was not satisfied with their poor and backward village life, becau Macondo is lost in the vast swamp. So he was determined to open up a way to connect Macondo with great inventions of the outside world. He with a group of people worked for more than two weeks, but unfortunately, they failed. Later, he studied alchemy and was deeply indulge. Becau of his spiritual world was different from Macondo's narrow reality, he fell into a lonely courtyard and screwed up. He was tied to a tree by his family and died on the tree after many decades. Ursula became the pillar of family and lived to be 115 to 120 years old.
The cond generation of the Boonediaz family has two men and one woman. The eldest Jo Arcadio was born on the road to the town. He grew up there, and had an affair with a woman named Pilar Ternera. And they had children as well. He was very scared, and later married the adopted daughter Rebecca. But he always gets defensive and was eager to rove all over the world. Later, he left with the gypsies and became uninhibited when he went back. In the end, he was assassinated strangely. The next boy Aureliano was born in Macon. He could cry on the womb, and came to the world with opened eyes. He could foree everything as a child. After he grew up, he fell in love with a mayor daughter Remedios. Before thisreplay是什么意思, he has given birth to a son with his brother’s lover and named him Aureliano Jo. After his wife died, he participated in the civil war and became a colonel. All his life he experiencedgpa是什么单位 fourteen assassinations, venty-three ambushes and a shot, but both survived. He lived in sin with 17 foreign women, 新东方四级作文预测and gave birth to 17 boys. The boys all went back to Macondo for eking their roots, but all were killed within a week. He returned home when he was old and was also obsd with alchemy like his father until he died. Their little sister,
Amaranta fell in love with an Italy technician, and have incest with their nephew. Unpleasant love made her unhappy and she locked herlf in the room alone to sewing clothes for the dead.
The third generation only has two cousins, Arcadio and Aureliano. The first one who didn’t know his mother fell in love with her, and almost made a big mistake. The latter became a Macondo's army chief, and finally was shot韩语发音表 for taking bribes and bending the law. Before he died, he married a woman and gave birth to a girl and two boys. His cousin lost his heart to Aunt Amaranta, but couldn’t marry her. Therefore he joined the army, and ultimately killed by the outlying me游学美国n.
The fourth generation has two boys and one girl who were born becau of Arcadio’s adultery. Daughter Remedios the Beauty was lovely. She always gave out discomforting odor, which had t a few men to death. She was always willing to be naked, and liked spending time in bathing. Later when she dried sheets, there was a gust of wind blew up, she disappeared in the air forever. Her twin brother, Arcadio Segundo, worked for a bana
na company as a supervisor, and incited workers to strike. Later, more than 3000 workers were put in distress, and he was the only one man survived. He witnesd the government nd the workers’ bodies currently unknownby train and threw them into a. But he was considered insane when telling this slaughter. He was very disappointed and finally put himlf into parchment manuscript which was left by gypsies in the hou. Another one, Aureliano Segundo often left his wife alone and had affairs with mistress. Strangely, this made livestock breed quickly and brought him wealth. Before died in pain, he and his wife had two daughters and a son. Therefore, people couldn’t recognize the two brothers.
The fifth generation is Aureliano Segundo’s two daughters and a son. The eldest son Jo Arcadio was nt to Roman minary. His mother wanted him to be a archbishop in the future. But he had no interest in it, only deceived his mother for the imaginary legacy. After her mother died, he came home and led a living for lling industry. In the end, he was killed for keep more than 7000 gold coins长沙翻译 hidden by Ursula in the cellar. The daughter Meme fell in love with a apprentice of banana company. But her mother forbade them to meet, so they had no choice but to meet cretly in the bathroom. Unfortunately,
mother found and killed him by convicting of stealing chicken. In total despair, Meme was nt to the monastery with pregnancy. Little girl Amaranta Ursula studied in Brusls school when she was a child. When she went back home, she saw the shuttered Macondo and determined to rebuild their homes. She was bouncy and full of energy, and her mood is better than the family. She wanted to overthrow all outdated conventions and bad customs. Therefore, she t out a long-term plan to save the disaster-ridden village.
