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The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of the isolated town of Macondo and the Buendía family who founded it. The patriarch José Arcadio Buendía leads the town in a solitary state with no outside contact for years. Gradually the town connects to the outside world through wars and technologies, bringing violence and change. The Buendía family experiences births, deaths, marriages, and other major events over more than a century, with some family members preferring isolation and others embracing the modernizing outside influences that ultimately devastate Macondo.

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The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of the isolated town of Macondo and the Buendía family who founded it. The patriarch José Arcadio Buendía leads the town in a solitary state with no outside contact for years. Gradually the town connects to the outside world through wars and technologies, bringing violence and change. The Buendía family experiences births, deaths, marriages, and other major events over more than a century, with some family members preferring isolation and others embracing the modernizing outside influences that ultimately devastate Macondo.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude is the history of the isolated town of Macondo and of the family
who founds it, the Buendías. For years, the town has no contact with the outside world, except
for gypsies who occasionally visit, peddling technologies like ice and telescopes. The patriarch
of the family, José Arcadio Buendía, is impulsive and inquisitive. He remains a leader who is
also deeply solitary, alienating himself from other men in his obsessive investigations into
mysterious matters. These character traits are inherited by his descendents throughout the novel.
His older child, José Arcadio, inherits his vast physical strength and his impetuousness. His
younger child, Aureliano, inherits his intense, enigmatic focus. Gradually, the village loses its
innocent, solitary state when it establishes contact with other towns in the region. Civil wars
begin, bringing violence and death to peaceful Macondo, which, previously, had experienced
neither, and Aureliano becomes the leader of the Liberal rebels, achieving fame as Colonel
Aureliano Buendía. Macondo changes from an idyllic, magical, and sheltered place to a town
irrevocably connected to the outside world through the notoriety of Colonel Buendía. Macondo’s
governments change several times during and after the war. At one point, Arcadio, the cruelest of
the Buendías, rules dictatorially and is eventually shot by a firing squad. Later, a mayor is
appointed, and his reign is peaceful until another civil uprising has him killed. After his death,
the civil war ends with the signing of a peace treaty.

More than a century goes by over the course of the book, and so most of the events that García
Márquez describes are the major turning points in the lives of the Buendías: births, deaths,
marriages, love affairs. Some of the Buendía men are wild and sexually rapacious, frequenting
brothels and taking lovers. Others are quiet and solitary, preferring to shut themselves up in their
rooms to make tiny golden fish or to pore over ancient manuscripts. The women, too, range from
the outrageously outgoing, like Meme, who once brings home seventy-two friends from boarding
school, to the prim and proper Fernanda del Carpio, who wears a special nightgown with a hole
at the crotch when she consummates her marriage with her husband.
A sense of the family’s destiny for greatness remains alive in its tenacious matriarch, Ursula
Iguarán, and she works devotedly to keep the family together despite its differences. But for the
Buendía family, as for the entire village of Macondo, the centrifugal forces of modernity are
devastating. Imperialist capitalism reaches Macondo as a banana plantation moves in and
exploits the land and the workers, and the Americans who own the plantation settle in their own
fenced-in section of town. Eventually, angry at the inhumane way in which they are treated, the
banana workers go on strike. Thousands of them are massacred by the army, which sides with
the plantation owners. When the bodies have been dumped into the sea, five years of ceaseless
rain begin, creating a flood that sends Macondo into its final decline. As the city, beaten down by
years of violence and false progress, begins to slip away, the Buendía family, too, begins its
process of final erasure, overcome by nostalgia for bygone days. The book ends almost as it
began: the village is once again solitary, isolated. The few remaining Buendía family members
turn in upon themselves incestuously, alienated from the outside world and doomed to a solitary
ending. In the last scene of the book, the last surviving Buendía translates a set of ancient
prophecies and finds that all has been predicted: that the village and its inhabitants have merely
been living out a preordained cycle, incorporating great beauty and great, tragic sadness.

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes. (n.d.). SparkNotes.
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/solitude/summary/

The One Hundred Years of Solitudes Family Tree

The One Hundred Years of Solitudes family tree is extremely complicated due to numerous
affairs and repeated names. Even after reading the novel several times, it is difficult to
understand, but a visual display can help.

The Buendía family lives in the fictional town of Macondo. The family patriarch, José Arcadio
Buendía, founded this town when he moved here with his wife, Úrsula Iguarán. The second
generation consist of José Arcadio Buendía, Aureliano Buendía, and Amaranta. Aureliano
Buendía is married to Remedios Moscote. He has a son, Aureliano José, with Pilar Ternera, as
well as 17 other sons from unknown women. José Arcadio Buendía is married to Rebeca.
However, he has Arcadio with the Pilar Ternera. In the third generation, Arcadio marries Santa
Sofía de la Piedad and has Remedios the Beauty, José Arcadio II, and Aureliano II. In the fourth
generation, Aureliano II has extramarital relation with Petra Cotes while he is married to
Fernanda del Carpio. Aureliano II and Fernanda del Carpio have three children, the fifth
generation, consisiting of Amaranta Úrsula, José Arcadio, and Renata Remedios. Amaranta
Úrsula is married to Gastón. Renata Remedios and Mauricio Babilonia affair results in Aureliano
Babilonia in the sixth generation. Amaranta Úrsula has affair with Aureliano Babilonia which
result in the last seventh generation Aureliano.
The Ultimate One Hundred Years of Solitude Family Tree | EdrawMax Online. (n.d.). Edrawsoft.
https://www.edrawmax.com/article/100years-of-solitude-family-tree.html\

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