100 Years Of Solitude
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Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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100 Years Of Solitude
Comparing 100 Years of Solitude to the Bible
When you think of the word solitude, what jumps in your head? Solitude is a quiet time, a time to reflect. Perhaps, for the fifteen months that Gabriel Garcia Marquez worked in solitude, he did reflect on life and humanity. According to Caille Millner, Marquez "barricaded himself in a room for 15 months. When he emerged, the 1967 book One Hundred Years of Solitude was immediately hailed as a classic. It was an incredible popular success and at one point it was selling out an edition every week. It was published in English in 1970 and won many prizes in different countries" (Solitude 2). During that 15 months of solitude, Marquez produced a book that timelessly portrays the people of Latin America. However, his book was read in many different countries and his message reflected many types of people. Is there another book that leaps to mind--a book that is applicable to many different types of people and that spans generations of a family? It is evident in many parts of this book that Marquez's thoughts, words, and stories parallel similar events in God's book, the Bible. Could it be that Marquez's efforts in 100 Years of Solitude were "divinely inspired?"
The first place that a reader sees evidence of the Bible is in chapter one. Some critics compare Macondo, the setting in Marquez's book, to the Garden of Eden. "From the very first paragraph, the narrator gives readers the impression that Macondo is akin to the Garden of Eden. By consciously echoing the Book of Genesis, Marquez is alerting us that this is his attempt to rewrite the history of the world and the human race, in a novel that has everything in it" (Solitude 1). The people in Macondo were isolated from the rest of humanity. The description of Macondo sounded beautiful and serene just like the Garden of Eden. "Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of...
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