<\/span>As with the other books, there is a very fluid sense of time as the book jumps back and forth between the present and the past. <\/span>This weaving back and forth, makes the novel a very complex book, and at times seems hard to follow. <\/span>Garcia Marquez\u2019s blending of time is similar to Asturias\u2019, giving Cien a\u00f1os de soledad<\/i> a mythical element to the story. <\/span>The story almost seems surreal or dreamlike as it it difficult to pin point what is a memory, history, or the present. <\/span>But unlike the other books, this novel even projects into the future, because from the first sentence we discover that Colonel Aureliano Buend\u00eda will be executed. <\/span>Another similarity <\/span>Cien a\u00f1os de soledad<\/i> shares with the other texts is the importance of history. <\/span>The book begins with the family tree and in the book highlight the importance of <\/span>ancestors and family lineage. <\/span>For example chapter two explain that \u00darsula and Jos\u00e9 Arcadio Buend\u00eda were afraid to get married and have children because they are distant cousins showing the importance of family history and hw it affects the present. <\/span>Both Asturias and Carpentier stress the importance of history and the effects of history in their novels. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>The example I mentioned above also highlights one of the first clear example of magic realism in the novel. <\/span>\u00darsula and Jos\u00e9 have good reason to be worried because in the past two of their relatives gave birth to a child with a pigtails, therefore an obvious example of magic realism. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span>I am glad to be reading Cien a\u00f1os de soledad<\/i> because I have honestly read the first page several times in different classes. <\/span>I think it is very interesting the importance of the sentence, \u201c el mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carec\u00edan de nombres y para mencionarlas hab\u00eda que se\u00f1alarlas con el dedo\u201d (p. 83) because I remember that this sentence can make connections with the bible as Adam is responsible for naming animals in the bible. Even from the first part of the book, it is noticeable that learning and gaining knowledge is am important part of the book. <\/span>I feel like <\/span>Cien a\u00f1os de soledad<\/i> is filled with important details similar to this, and I hope that we have time to analyze some of them in depth. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n First off, I must say Cien a\u00f1os de soledad begins as a very challenging read. The book has a very poetic flow, therefore while reading I kept debating whether to look words up in the dictionary or to skim over unfamiliar words to not disrupt the flo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}