Fishbowl make-up/addition
Hello,
We had a wonderful, far ranging discussing over One Hundred Years of Solitude in class today. For make-up, please offer your response/comments from one or more of the prompts distributed. If not an actual answer, it's certainly reasonable to offer questions and where you see the text leading us. . .
posted by erdecker @ 3:07 PM
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From the gradesaver questions, number three, the question on hyperbole.. I just think that Marquez uses hyperbole to emphasize everything that is going on in Latin America to this day. Because Marquez utilizes the narrative tone he is able to make many overstatements and also make use of the extraordinary. And because Marquez states all of these extraordinary things in such a "completely unperturbed face"... without any judgements or comments on what is going on, they all seem completely real and justified. I think that Marquez is trying to say that Latin America is very behind in techonology and such...that things that seem so common and trivial to us they are amazed by.
That's all....
I'm responding to question 7 from the first page of the promt.
First off, I would like to express my belief that all the knowledge and technology Macando had aquired over the years is a factor to the town's eventual destruction. When the explorers that began with the first Jose Arcadio Buendia had founded the town, very little was known about the world around them, and with the knowledge that they did have, they were able to start a small community in which they all lived in peacefully and happily. When the gypsies started coming, a few of the townspeople, most importantly Jose Arcadio Buendia, discovered that there was a lot the town was missing that the rest of the world had. From that point on, the people were concerned about connecting themselves with the rest of the world ignored what they had. This is how the knowledge of warfare came, which was another factor to the town's destruction. When railway became available, more people came in, and with those people came new inventions and ways of living life.
With each new invention and technological wonder, Macando fell further and further from its core foundation and became a city that the original founders could no longer recognize.
I think Marquez had included technological advances in the novel because he wanted to show that even with all the new knowledge and the people and the culture, many of the inhabitants still experienced solitude, and in the end, not much was gained, because the town came to ruins. If the original people hadn't have tried so hard to bring in so many gadgets, things could've gone better for them. Maybe ignorance is bliss :)
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