{"id":786,"date":"2010-03-14T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8482742461732356853.post-4003337381138761304"},"modified":"2010-03-14T22:24:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T06:24:13","slug":"marquez-post-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/2010\/03\/14\/marquez-post-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquez: post 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I thought it was really interesting to read this segment of the book, especially after our discussion in class about war, because the meaning of<span >  <\/span>war continues to be a very important message.<span >  <\/span>In class we talked about that war advances solitude because it breaks apart connections that makes people humans and that war takes away feelings and leaves a<span >  <\/span>person empty.<span >  <\/span>However later when the Coronel Aureliano Buend\u00eda looses faith in the war he is consumed by solitude.<span >  <\/span>Is this because the war has already taken everything out of him?<span >  <\/span>And I agree with what Jon said about a the Coronel\u2019s failed suicide symbolizing ultimate solitude.<span >  <\/span>This part of the book was particularly sad, especially because Ursula has to experience her son\u2019s desperation.<span >  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span >            <\/span>I must say keeping the names and relationships straightened out is becoming increasingly challenging! And the sex des not stop getting weirder and weirder.<span >  <\/span>And I guess in class we have talked about how with repetition solitude is furthered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span >            <\/span>Also the topic discussed<span >  <\/span>in class, that technology and contact with the world progresses solitudes, continues in this segment of the book as well with the introduction of the train.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8482742461732356853-4003337381138761304?l=kylabl.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  I thought it was really interesting to read this segment of the book, especially after our discussion in class about war, because the meaning of  war continues to be a very important message.  In class we talked about that war advances solitude becau&#8230;<\/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-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/span365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}