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A 12 page research paper in which the first six pages briefly examine three Latin works: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Deep Rivers, and Labyrinths. This section of the paper offers a brief 2 page synopsis of each book. Then the writer offers a 6 page essay that discusses the depiction of social injustice in Deep Rivers by Jose Maria Arguedas and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to this epic-like novel briefly; however, the main points are that it is the history of the isolated Colombian village of Macondo, whose rise and fall parallels that of the
family of its founder, Jose Arcadio Buendia, an impulsive man who is also deeply solitary, alienating himself from others. His wife, Ursula Iguarian, is the matriarch who holds the family
together during her over a century-long life. The novel chronicles the fate of the family, as Marquez chronicles the lives of each succeeding generation of the Buendias family.
In so doing, he takes the reader through ravages of civil war, the invasion of American capitalists, and the aftermath of a union uprising. Most of the events
that Marquez describes constitute major turning points in the lives of the Buendias family. The founding patriarch has two sons, Jose Arcadio and Aureliano. When civil war begins, Aureliano becomes
famous as a leader of the Liberal rebels. His fame irrevocably connects Macondo to the outside world. Jose Arcadio, who is a cruel man, at one point rules Macondo
in a dictatorial manner until he is overthrown and shot by firing squad. The generations of characters that Marquez creates are all widely different. Some of the men are wild
and highly sexual, taking lovers and fathering illegitimate children, while others are quiet and solitary. The women, likewise, range from being extremely extroverted -- one female character, Meme, brings home
72 friends from boarding school in one episode -- to being extremely prim and proper. Throughout the novel, there is a sense of the familys continuing legacy of solitude. A
banana workers strike marks the final downfall of the village and the Buendia family. Alienated from the outside world and doomed to their prison of solitude, the end of
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