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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel that won Gabriel García Márquez the Nobel Prize for Literature. It's become a staple of Spanish-speaking high school curricula everywhere, mostly for being awesomely deep and so goddamn hard to understand. Arguably one of the most important pieces of literature written in the 20th century, or to put in context, almost as important as Don Quixote to Spanish speaking literature. Famous, among other things, for using every conceivable trope one could ever hope to fit in 28.8 oz of paper.The book follows the story of the Buendía family and the town they create, Macondo, from its foundation to its end. Of course, it is told in a non-linear fashion with every generation having the same few names, as well as the same basic attributes (except for a pair of twins whose names are thought to have been accidentally switched at some point). Alongside the story of the Buendía family, there are an abundance of vignettes recounting both the everyday and the supernatural occurrences that shape the lives of the inhabitants of Macondo. The themes range widely, incorporating legendary figures (such as the Wandering Jew), historical events (Sir Francis Drake’s bombing of Rioacha, the Massacre of the Banana growers), and short stories about the love of two minor characters who never get to interfere with the main action.Netflix has announced that it will be adapting the story into a television series.
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Dying Town
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Dying Town: After Macondo goes through several natural disasters, everybody is taken over by apathy and even the birds leave.
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Control Freak
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Control Freak: Fernanda, especially after Úrsula loses her eyesight. Her need for control ends up resulting in Mauricio Babilonia getting shot and paralyzed, and Meme going silent and being shunted off to a convent for the rest of her life.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: And in fact, almost everyone does.
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Arbitrary Skepticism
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Despite the constant fanatical happenings around Macondo, everyone looks at José Arcadio Buendía as a crank for believing he can make the Gypsies' inventions work and for his fantastical plans, and they turn out to be right about this skepticism.
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Boisterous Bruiser
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Boisterous Bruiser: José Arcadio, post-Walking the Earth. Also, Aureliano Segundo.
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The Mistress
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The Mistress: Petra Cotes is Aureliano Segundo's lover even after he marries Fernanda del Carpio, and many times she is referred to as "the concubine."
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Big, Screwed-Up Family
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The book
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: After seeing a kid and his grandpa get killed by cops with machetes, Aureliano threatens to arm all his sons and "get rid of these shitty gringos". Not too much later, almost all of the 17 Aurelianos end up being assassinated.
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Spurned into Suicide
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Spurned into Suicide: Pietro Crespi falls in love with Amaranta, and kills himself after she rejects him.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: The title is used for the first time in the very last sentence of the book.
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Marked to Die
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Marked to Die: All of the sons Colonel Aureliano Buendía has during the war are eventually given cross-shaped ash marks on their foreheads. It makes them easy assassination targets.
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry
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The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Amaranta and Rebeca.
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: Colonel Aureliano Buendía becomes this at some point during the war. Úrsula comes to believe that he was actually like this from the very beginning.
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Redemption in the Rain
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Redemption in the Rain: The whole town. Not that it helps, anyway. Macondo enters into decline due to the flooding and never recovers.
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Úrsula were both raised to believe that Aureliano Babilonia was adopted, therefore thinking that being each other's Victorious Childhood Friends, screwing each other and having a child would have no harmful consequences. They were proven wrong, with tragic consequences.
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May–December Romance
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May–December Romance: Amaranta Úrsula and her first husband, Gastón.
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: For most of the book, Úrsula is the most (and sometimes only) sane voice in the house. Lampshaded now and then. Santa Sofía de la Piedad is sane enough to avoid most of the conflict in the plot.
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Generation Xerox
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Generation Xerox: The Aurelianos and José Arcadios. Lampshaded by Úrsula more than once. Subverted with the Segundos. They each have some traits of their predecessors, but some are switched around, maybe due to the Twin Switch they perpetuated as children. Ultimately comes to full circle in the end, because like the other Amaranta before her, Amaranta Úrsula has an affair with her own nephew. The difference with her is that she didn't know her familial connection to her lover and that said affair went on long enough for her to bear a child from it.
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Practically Different Generations: José Arcadio is between sixteen-eighteen when Amaranta is born. He gets Pilar pregnant briefly after she was born, thus Arcadio and Amaranta were raised together. Meme and Amaranta Úrsula have an age difference of more or less twenty years, as Meme had already completed her studies when she had a son and he's roughly the same age (maybe older by two or three years) as Amaranta Úrsula, the two being raised together.
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Walking the Earth
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Walking the Earth: José Arcadio, although he returns after going around the world sixty-five times. Melquíades and his band of Roma also do this (they've been just about everywhere, too).
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The Dreaded
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The Dreaded: Colonel Aureliano Buendía becomes this to the entire conservative regime.
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He Who Fights Monsters: Subverted by Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Through the war's course he becomes increasingly cold and cruel, and one of his subordinates and personal friend even lampshades it, but he ends up an apathetic Hikikomori making gold fish until his death.
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Bed Trick: Arcadio wants to sleep with Pilar Ternera, saying he knows she sleeps with everyone so she has no right to refuse, but Pilar is secretly Arcadio's mother and doesn't want to admit it, so she spends half of her money to have Santa Sofía de la Piedad visit him in her stead.
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Gratuitous Foreign Language: Latin during a conversation with the priest, and the bookshop owner sometimes says phrases in Catalan.
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Dead Guy Junior: Over and over and over...
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Full-Name Basis: José Arcadio Buendía, the family patriarch, and Colonel Aureliano Buendía once he achieves that rank. It helps to differentiate them from their successors.
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Explosive Breeder
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Explosive Breeder: All of Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes' animals (only before the five-year-long rain, that is).
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Attack of the Town Festival: Guerrillas open fire on the citizens of Macondo as they're holding a carnival.
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Impromptu Tracheotomy: José Arcadio Buendía kickstarts the plot via giving one of these to his rival Prudencio Aguilar in Riohacha. Since Prudencio's ghost starts hanging around their home shortly afterwards, he and Úrsula (along with a group of other young people from the town) decide to leave so he can rest in peace.
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As mentioned, Little Remedios matured very quickly after marrying Aureliano, becoming a competent and cheerful homemaker loved by everyone. Hence, why her early death hit everyone so hard.
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Murder the Hypotenuse: Amaranta is willing to kill Rebeca to stop her from getting married to Pietro Crespi, who she loves herself. She doesn't go through with it because the wedding is delayed enough by the death of Remedios that Rebeca ends up falling in love with José Arcadio instead.
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Death is Cheap: Melquíades. He returns to life because the land of the dead was too lonely for him.
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Face Death with Dignity: Gregorio Stevenson invokes this to Arcadio when Macondo is raided by the conservative army while he's imprisioned. Arcadio faces his death remarkably calmly, with the anxiety he's suffered his whole life fading away. However his last-second regret about not suggesting Remedios as a name for his daughter leads to him feeling fear again at the last moment. Colonel Aureliano faces his death by firing squad with dignity, though he ends up being saved in the end.
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse
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So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Remedios The Beauty, albeit the curse part is less for her and more for the people around her.
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Family Relationship Switcheroo: Arcadio never knows his true parentage, and is raised believing his grandparents José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula are his parents.
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"Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization: Near the end, Aureliano Babilonia is unable to cope with his attraction to Amaranta Úrsula, who is his aunt and who he believes to be his sister, and rapes her while her husband is in the other room. She tries to fight him off at first, but ends up enjoying it so much that her feelings of love are transferred from her husband over to him.
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World's Most Beautiful Woman
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World's Most Beautiful Woman: Remedios the Beauty.
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Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: In one fell swoop, Macondo is eventually destroyed.
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Actor/Role Confusion: The opening of Macondo's first cinema causes a few problems because of this: when the actor that played a dying character in one movie appears as an Arab in the next one, the locals riot.
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Someone to Remember Him By
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Someone to Remember Him By: Santa Sofía de la Piedad gives birth to twins José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo five months after Arcadio's execution via firing squad.
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Buried Treasure: The gold inside the Don José statue is buried by Úrsula somewhere around the Buendía house. Colonel Aureliano and later Aureliano Segundo try to find it with no success, with Úrsula refusing to tell them anything. The gold is eventually found by Aureliano Segundo's son José Arcadio and one of his young companions.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mauricio Babilonia is a fan of Brutal Honesty, but can be somewhat sweeter when with Meme. It's mentioned that Meme starts falling more genuinely for him ones she deduces that his brusqueness towards her is, to a degree, his way to show tenderness.
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4814d132
type
Big Fancy House
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4814d132
comment
Big Fancy House: The Buendía household gets remodeled and renovated quite a few times as the family becomes more successful. It doesn't last.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4814d132
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4814d132
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4814d132
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48d87e94
type
Planet of Steves
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48d87e94
comment
Planet of Steves: We have at least five Arcadios (José Arcadio Buendía, José Arcadio (son of the first one), Arcadio, José Arcadio Segundo (son of Arcadio) and José Arcadio Babilonia, son of Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta) and at least twenty-one Aurelianos (Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Aureliano José (son of the Colonel with Pilar Ternera), the seventeen Aurelianos, Aureliano Segundo and Aureliano Babilonia).
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48d87e94
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48d87e94
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48d87e94
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48e8fe57
type
Happily Adopted
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48e8fe57
comment
Happily Adopted: Aureliano Babilonia thinks he's this. This is what leads him to have relations with Amaranta Úrsula, setting off the events that culminate in the end of Macondo and the Buendía family.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48e8fe57
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48e8fe57
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_48e8fe57
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4c9d2176
type
Formerly Fat
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4c9d2176
comment
Formerly Fat / Formerly Fit: After becoming wildly rich and successful, Aureliano Segundo balloons up from a svelte athlete to a fat glutton. When the rains begin, he finds himself with nothing to do but putter around the house repairing things and doing chores, and the exercise (plus the floods causing a forced diet) helps him slim down again.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4c9d2176
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4c9d2176
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4c9d2176
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d45aa06
type
Banana Republic
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d45aa06
comment
Banana Republic: For a while, Macondo is this.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d45aa06
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d45aa06
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d45aa06
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d69fd60
type
Buried in a Pile of Corpses
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d69fd60
comment
Buried in a Pile of Corpses: After leading a strike which ends in the strikers being massacred, José Arcadio Segundo wakes up on a train filled with corpses and has to walk back to Macondo.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d69fd60
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d69fd60
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4d69fd60
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e3d253b
type
Downer Ending
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e3d253b
comment
Downer Ending: Amaranta Úrsula succumbs to Death by Childbirth. Hers and Aureliano Babilonia's child is left alone by his father in his grief and is ultimately eaten by ants. Aureliano, who has crossed the Despair Event Horizon already, sees his kid dead and then realizes this is the last clue to decipher Melquíades's scripts. As he's reading them and uncovering all the secrets of Macondo and the Buendías (his true bond with Amaranta Úrsula included), Macondo is destroyed by a tornado and everyone dies.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e3d253b
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e3d253b
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e3d253b
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e91b042
type
Making Love in All the Wrong Places
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e91b042
comment
Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Amaranta Úrsula likes doing this with her husband, Gastón, and later, with Aureliano Babilonia.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e91b042
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e91b042
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4e91b042
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4ef62a4d
type
Full-Circle Revolution
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4ef62a4d
comment
Full-Circle Revolution: Emissaries suggest to Colonel Aureliano Buendía that he makes major concessions to the Conservatives like giving back land titles, ending the fight against the church and giving up on fighting for equal rights for illegitimate children, in order to make peace and gain popular support. Colonel Gerineldo Márquez objects because this would mean they would be just like the conservatives and would be fighting for nothing, but Aureliano accepts the terms, having become cynical and convinced they are just fighting for power and pride anyway.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4ef62a4d
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4ef62a4d
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4ef62a4d
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4f773434
type
Wise Beyond Their Years
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4f773434
comment
Wise Beyond Their Years: As mentioned, Little Remedios matured very quickly after marrying Aureliano, becoming a competent and cheerful homemaker loved by everyone. Hence, why her early death hit everyone so hard. Aureliano Babilonia is constantly reading books in Melquíades' office and giving lectures to people about the injustices of history when he is a young child, impressing everyone.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4f773434
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4f773434
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_4f773434
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_50b05d30
type
Disproportionate Retribution
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_50b05d30
comment
Disproportionate Retribution: Prudencio Aguilar insults José Arcadio Buendía over his lack of a sex life with Úrsula. José Arcadio Buendía kills him with a spear ten minutes later.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_50b05d30
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_50b05d30
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_50b05d30
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5313c266
type
Bookends
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5313c266
comment
Book Ends: In the beginning, a relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula (the son of the couple mentioned above) had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place. In the ending, Aureliano Babilonia (son of Meme Buendía with Mauricio Babilonia and hidden by Fernanda Del Carpio, Meme's mother, due to being an out-of-wedlock baby) falls in love with Amaranta, (daughter of Fernanda with her husband, Aureliano Segundo, making her Aureliano's aunt) and has a baby with her, who is born with a pig's tail.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5313c266
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5313c266
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5313c266
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5336c902
type
Boom Town
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5336c902
comment
Boom Town: Macondo. It goes to the Dying Town phase but never becomes quite a ghost one.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5336c902
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5336c902
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5336c902
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_534793ae
type
Methuselah Syndrome
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_534793ae
comment
Methuselah Syndrome: Úrsula lives at least 120 years or so, and Pilar Ternera lives to 145.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_534793ae
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_534793ae
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_534793ae
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54321e11
type
Innocent Fanservice Girl
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54321e11
comment
Innocent Fanservice Girl: Remedios the Beauty, who loves going around naked. She even lampshades this by saying it's the best way to go around.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54321e11
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54321e11
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54321e11
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54e3f941
type
Hikikomori
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54e3f941
comment
Hikikomori: Various characters shut themselves in rooms, usually the workshop or Melquíades' room, sometimes only temporarily. The most "famous" are José Arcadio Segundo and the Colonel.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54e3f941
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54e3f941
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_54e3f941
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_55b1f9a1
type
Easy Amnesia
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_55b1f9a1
comment
Easy Amnesia: The entire town, briefly, and more permanently Rebeca, as a symptom of a plague. Everyone gets cured after Melquíades' reappearance.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_55b1f9a1
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_55b1f9a1
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_55b1f9a1
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_561dab6b
type
Mistaken for Gay
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_561dab6b
comment
Mistaken for Gay: José Arcadio reassures Úrsula that Pietro Crespi isn't a threat to her daughters because he's a "fairy", though he does turn out to be interested at least in Amaranta.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_561dab6b
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_561dab6b
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_561dab6b
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_57b74bd4
type
Achievements in Ignorance
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_57b74bd4
comment
Achievements in Ignorance: During the eating challenge between Aureliano Segundo and Camila "The Elephant" Sagastume, the latter reveals that her technique is based on "absolute tranquility of spirit"—she has no issues of conscience weighing on her heart and can thus eat without stopping. Towards the end of their challenge, Camila realizes that Aureliano has inadvertently stumbled on the same strategy, but in an unexpected way—he has such Lack of Empathy that his conscience is clear because he doesn't think of anyone or anything but himself and his own pleasures.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_57b74bd4
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_57b74bd4
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_57b74bd4
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_585db628
type
Vote Early, Vote Often
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_585db628
comment
Vote Early, Vote Often: The conservatives rig the first election in Macondo, getting rid of most of the liberal ballots. This inspires Aureliano to fight in wars on behalf of the liberals.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_585db628
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_585db628
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_585db628
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5aa8d3d8
type
Friendly Enemy
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5aa8d3d8
comment
Friendly Enemy: Downplayed, Don Apolinar Moscote and Jose Raquel Moncada are not exactly enemies with Colonel Aureliano Buendía, with whom they are good friends, but they are on opposite political sides during the war.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5aa8d3d8
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5aa8d3d8
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5aa8d3d8
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ae357c1
type
Knight Templar Parent
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ae357c1
comment
Knight Templar Parent: Fernanda, so damn much. She disapproves of Meme's relationship with Mauricio Babilonia, due to him being lower class, finds out they've been sleeping together and Meme is pregnant and then plans to pay someone to shoot him (which paralyzed him from the waist down) and frame him as a dangerous chicken robber, send Meme to a nunnery and hide their baby from the world, due to him being born out of wedlock.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ae357c1
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ae357c1
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ae357c1
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5b9b4a19
type
Almighty Mom
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5b9b4a19
comment
Almighty Mom: When Arcadio takes over Macondo and is killing people in violent reprisals, his grandmother/adopted mother Úrsula stands up to him, calling him out and whipping him while chasing him away. From then on she has authority in Macondo. She also later gathers the mothers of revolutionaries together to try to stop her son Colonel Aureliano Buendía from having General Moncada executed.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5b9b4a19
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5b9b4a19
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5b9b4a19
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5bca5a56
type
Surprise Incest
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5bca5a56
comment
Surprise Incest: Arcadio tries to sleep with Pilar Ternera, who unbeknownst to him is his biological mother. Pilar, who is aware of this, tries to dissuade him and, unwilling to tell him the truth, sends Santa Sofía de la Piedad in her stead. The last Aureliano has an affair with Amaranta Úrsula, believing he is adopted so they are not biologically related, without knowing he is actually her biological nephew. He does suspect there might be secret incest going on, except his idea is that they might be half siblings through Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5bca5a56
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5bca5a56
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5bca5a56
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5c059fbd
type
Twin Telepathy
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5c059fbd
comment
Twin Telepathy: When twins Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo are children, their mother gives one a glass of lemonade and the other, who had not tasted it, correctly says that it needed sugar.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5c059fbd
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5c059fbd
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5c059fbd
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5d6a4e3f
type
Twin Desynch
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5d6a4e3f
comment
Twin Desynch: Twins José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo initially look and act the same way, but when they grow up both look very different (due to Aureliano Segundo gaining wait) and have drastically different personalities.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5d6a4e3f
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5d6a4e3f
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5d6a4e3f
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5dd191ec
type
Wife Husbandry
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5dd191ec
comment
Wife Husbandry: Little Remedios and Aureliano, who's old enough to be her father. Well, she was smarter and more mature than the average girl, but still, he proposes marriage when she's just nine...
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5dd191ec
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5dd191ec
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5dd191ec
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ee6a992
type
Oh, and X Dies
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ee6a992
comment
Oh, and X Dies: The first line of the book reveals that Colonel Aureliano Buendía will die by firing squad by describing his thoughts as he faces that firing squad, and Arcadio is revealed to die in the same way by similarly describing his thoughts. While Arcadio actually does die by firing squad, Aureliano is saved at the last minute. It also gets mentioned early on that the 17 Aurelianos (sons of the colonel) will be massacred.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ee6a992
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ee6a992
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5ee6a992
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5f1999a0
type
Building of Adventure
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5f1999a0
comment
Building of Adventure: After the rains, when all the action is centered in or around the now-decrepit Buendía mansion.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5f1999a0
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5f1999a0
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5f1999a0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5fcedca
type
Big Eater
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5fcedca
comment
Big Eater: Aureliano Segundo becomes this, to incredible degrees. In an eating contest, he eats (among many other things) a whole pig, and suffers a stroke as a result. He once has an eating contest against Camila "The Elephant" Sagastume, who can eat just as much as him. Subverted with Rebeca: The Buendías only break her habit of eating dirt and whitewash with a lot of effort, and she'll snap right back whenever overwhelmed or stressed.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5fcedca
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-0.3
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5fcedca
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_5fcedca
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_606244c2
type
Parental Incest
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_606244c2
comment
Parental Incest: Arcadio tries to seduce his own mother, Pilar Ternera (though he's unaware of his true parentage), but she bribes another girl to sleep with him in her stead.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_606244c2
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_606244c2
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_606244c2
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_61c7d589
type
Bigger Is Better in Bed
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_61c7d589
comment
José Arcadio, due to the opposite reasons: his great physical strength, brutish ways and mythical penis size.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_61c7d589
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_61c7d589
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_61c7d589
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_63389b0b
type
Kids Are Cruel
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_63389b0b
comment
Kids Are Cruel: The twins swap identities and drive everyone around them mad, Úrsula is convinced she is dead by her infant descendants playing a prank which causes her to die for real, and one Buendía is murdered by a group of adolescent punks he befriended.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_63389b0b
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_63389b0b
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_63389b0b
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_64265de8
type
Multigenerational Household
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_64265de8
comment
Multigenerational Household: The Buendí household at one point contains Úrsula, her daughter Amaranta, her granddaughter-in-law Santa Sofía de la Piedad, her children Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo (and the former's wife Fernanda), and Aureliano Segundo's children Meme and José Arcadio.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_64265de8
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_64265de8
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_64265de8
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66755d29
type
Author Avatar
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66755d29
comment
Author Avatar: A character only mentioned in passing, simply named Gabriel García Márquez.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66755d29
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66755d29
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66755d29
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6682d6e4
type
Dying Moment of Awesome
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6682d6e4
comment
Dying Moment of Awesome: When the conservative forces attack Macondo, Arcadio allows Colonel Gregorio Stevenson to help defending the town, giving him a rifle with twenty cartridges. Stevenson defends the barracks by himself so efficiently, that the attackers believe it to be too well-defended and resort to blowing the place up with cannon fire. And he did it all in women's clothes!
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6682d6e4
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6682d6e4
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6682d6e4
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66cdb21b
type
Gag Penis
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66cdb21b
comment
Gag Penis: The first José Arcadio was described as "very gifted" in his manhood, and the discovery of that resulted in him being drafted away from home by a impressed lover. Also, Aureliano Babilonia from the penultimate generation.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66cdb21b
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66cdb21b
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_66cdb21b
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6bd689ca
type
Meaningful Echo
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6bd689ca
comment
Meaningful Echo: A much older Úrsula echoes her son Aureliano's line while he was awaiting the firing squad, responding to then statement that time passes with "That's how it goes, but not so much."
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6bd689ca
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6bd689ca
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6bd689ca
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d332aea
type
Driven to Suicide
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d332aea
comment
Driven to Suicide: Pietro Crespi. Subverted with Colonel Aureliano.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d332aea
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-0.3
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d332aea
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d332aea
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d9bc945
type
Babies Ever After
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d9bc945
comment
Babies Ever After: Subverted. The last generation's baby that could have brought back the family's glory is eaten by ants.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d9bc945
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-0.3
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d9bc945
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_6d9bc945
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_707bb8ce
type
Pair the Spares
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_707bb8ce
comment
Pair the Spares: Subverted. After José Arcadio and Rebeca hook up, Pietro Crespi proposes to Amaranta, but she rejects him harshly.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_707bb8ce
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-0.3
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_707bb8ce
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_707bb8ce
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7207025
type
Mad Dreamer
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7207025
comment
Mad Dreamer: José Arcadio Buendía, who devolves into a Cloudcuckoolander in his old age.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7207025
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1.0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7207025
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7207025
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7241785e
type
You Can't Fight Fate
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7241785e
comment
You Can't Fight Fate: The family's history was written from the beginning to the end by Melquíades, thus they were damned from the start. However, his manuscripts were written in a hard to decipher way, only being read in full by Aureliano Babilonia. The book could have been named You Can't Fight Fate: The Book.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7241785e
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_72e1bd14
type
Bungled Suicide
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_72e1bd14
comment
Bungled Suicide: Colonel Aureliano Buendía has his personal physician paint a target on his chest right over his heart, intending to shoot himself after the war ends. After he survives, it turns out the doctor was smart enough to paint the target in a spot where the bullet would miss every single vital organ.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_72e1bd14
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_72e1bd14
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_757bbdb8
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Massive Numbered Siblings
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_757bbdb8
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Massive Numbered Siblings: Aureliano José has seventeen half-brothers from his father Colonel Aureliano Buendía's numerous affairs during his civil war campaigns.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_757bbdb8
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1.0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_757bbdb8
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_75d6bf40
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_75d6bf40
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Mauricio is the Jerk with a Heart of Gold, Meme is the Type B Tsundere. It ends in tragedy.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_75d6bf40
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_75d6bf40
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_77063cd7
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Hooker with a Heart of Gold
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_77063cd7
comment
Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Pilar Ternera, Petra Cotes and Nigromanta.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_77063cd7
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_77063cd7
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_771f6307
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Brother–Sister Incest
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comment
Brother–Sister Incest: José Arcadio marries Rebeca, who's been raised by his parents during his long absence in Macondo. It was for this reason that their decision to marry was met with some resistance, until a priest confirmed that they're Not Blood Siblings.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_771f6307
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_771f6307
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_78848a7b
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Harmless Lady Disguise
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_78848a7b
comment
Harmless Lady Disguise: Colonel Gregorio Stevenson disguises himself as an old woman to safely get to Macondo to warn them of their incoming defeat and advise them to surrender, without getting caught and killed along the way.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_78848a7b
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_78848a7b
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_79da445d
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Oblivious Adoption
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_79da445d
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Oblivious Adoption: Inverted with Aureliano Babilonia, since he thinks he's adopted and not actually related to the Buendías, therefore making it okay to have an affair with Amaranta Úrsula. But boy, is he wrong.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_79da445d
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_79da445d
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a0374eb
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Impoverished Patrician
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a0374eb
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Impoverished Patrician: Fernanda del Carpio.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a0374eb
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a0374eb
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a143509
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Shell-Shocked Veteran
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a143509
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Colonel Aureliano Buendía. After he comes back (for real) from his various wars he retreats from the world, becoming apathetic to his family and only dedicates himself to making golden fish.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a143509
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7a143509
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7ef728b1
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Tsundere
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7ef728b1
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Tsundere: Meme is a Type B. Normally a rebellious and somewhat vain Genki Girl, she goes all tsuntsun when Mauricio appears.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7ef728b1
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7ef728b1
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7f8fd503
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Lonely at the Top
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7f8fd503
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Lonely at the Top: Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Granted, he isn't exactly social before he achieves his high rank.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7f8fd503
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_7f8fd503
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_82b78473
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Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_82b78473
comment
Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: The gypsies put a pile of dry hay in the middle of the street and set it on fire with a gigantic magnifying glass. This makes José Arcadio Buendía think that it can be used as as a weapon of war.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_82b78473
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_82b78473
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8409a385
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8409a385
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The book spans over one hundred years, with one of the main themes being solitude.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8409a385
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8409a385
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_863fa679
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What Happened to the Mouse?
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_863fa679
comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: All the major characters (members of the Buendía family, Love Interests, friends) get some ending to their stories, whether it is death or leaving Macondo not to be heard from again. The sole exception is Petra Cotes. The last we hear of her is that she survived Fernanda.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_863fa679
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_863fa679
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8967e17f
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Back from the Dead
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8967e17f
comment
Several. Melquíades eventually becomes a permanent fixture in the house after he comes Back from the Dead. Then he dies again, but still survives as a sort of interactive memory passed down through José Arcadio's bloodline.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8967e17f
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8967e17f
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_89dcd4e
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Small-Town Tyrant
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_89dcd4e
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Small-Town Tyrant: Arcadio takes over Macondo in the name of the liberals during the wars, and proves a tyrannical ruler, killing those who cross or even annoy him.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_89dcd4e
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_89dcd4e
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8af7b342
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Sibling Yin-Yang
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8af7b342
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Sibling Yin-Yang / Red Oni, Blue Oni: Any pair of brothers named José Arcadio and Aureliano. Reversed with the Segundos.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8af7b342
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8af7b342
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8b606a51
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There Is No Kill Like Overkill
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8b606a51
comment
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: After captain Aquiles Ricardo fatally shoots Aureliano José, he's shot to death and more than four hundred men unload their guns on his corpse while the latter bleeds out.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8b606a51
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8b606a51
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8c9e724c
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Big Beautiful Woman
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8c9e724c
comment
Big Beautiful Woman: Camila "The Elephant" Sagastume. While quite large, she is described as beautiful and kind, and when he first sees her, Aureliano Segundo wishes he could have a "tourney" with her in bed.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8c9e724c
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8c9e724c
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ec0abf
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The Voiceless
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ec0abf
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The Voiceless: Meme becomes this after losing Mauricio Babilonia.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ec0abf
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ec0abf
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ff8d545
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Kissing Cousins
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ff8d545
comment
José Arcadio, who marries his adopted sister Rebeca shortly after meeting her for the first time. Though this decision was met with some revulsion from Úrsula. But Rebeca is mentioned as being a relative of Úrsula, which would make her a cousin to her husband.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ff8d545
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ff8d545
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ffd5bdc
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The Penance
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ffd5bdc
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The Penance: Amaranta badly burns her own hands as self-punishment for driving Pietro Crespi to suicide with her rejection of him.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ffd5bdc
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_8ffd5bdc
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_927b2f11
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The Bus Came Back
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_927b2f11
comment
The Bus Came Back: José Arcadio (son of Úrsula and the original José Arcadio Blendía) leaves to join the gypsies after finding out Pilar Ternera is pregnant with his child while he is only 14 years old. He later returns, having seen much of the world and being able to regale people with many stories.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_927b2f11
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_927b2f11
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9400b3b5
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Questionable Consent
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9400b3b5
comment
Questionable Consent: Aureliano and Amaranta Úrsula's first sexual encounter has this, since the former came onto the latter forcefully and it was initially met with resistance. Amaranta does eventually give in, but the fact it has a "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization just blurs things. There's also the fact that Amaranta still loved her husband when Aureliano pretty much sexually assaulted her.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9400b3b5
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9400b3b5
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_96a33f11
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Riddle for the Ages
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_96a33f11
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Riddle for the Ages: No one, including the reader, ever finds out who killed José Arcadio, though he had made many enemies by taking people's land.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_96a33f11
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_96a33f11
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_970c8a84
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Big Fun
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_970c8a84
comment
Big Fun: Aureliano Segundo is fat for most of his life and is a fun person to be around as he eats in feasts, plays the accordion and gives constant raffles.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_970c8a84
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_970c8a84
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_97aaa7f3
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In the Blood
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_97aaa7f3
comment
In the Blood: Several traits are repeated through the generations, some could be considered to be in the name, such as the reflexivenesss and stoicism of the Aurelianos and the mad enterprising nature of the José Arcadios (switched with the twins). The whole family shares being prone to obsession and incest, as well as sabotaging their own work so as to have more work to do later, and, of course, every single family member is doomed to have a lonely life with a tragic ending.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_97aaa7f3
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_97aaa7f3
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9858c391
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Chick Magnet
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9858c391
comment
Chick Magnet: Pietro Crespi, due to his musical talents, angelical appearance and sensibility. José Arcadio, due to the opposite reasons: his great physical strength, brutish ways and mythical penis size.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9858c391
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9858c391
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9c4003a1
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One True Love
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9c4003a1
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Aureliano Babilonia thinks he's safe from this because he thinks he was adopted. Unfortunately, Amaranta Úrsula is actually his aunt.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9c4003a1
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9c4003a1
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9e1548b4
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Old Retainer
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9e1548b4
comment
Old Retainer: Santa Sofía de la Piedad, who, despite actually being the mother of Remedios the Beauty, Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo, is treated as another servant. She seems to be content that way.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9e1548b4
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_9e1548b4
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a01f88a7
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General Failure
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a01f88a7
comment
General Failure: Colonel Aureliano Buendía, although not technically a general. Starts a lot of wars (a total of thirty-two), and loses all of them.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a01f88a7
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a01f88a7
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a09f3a65
type
Sibling Triangle
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a09f3a65
comment
Sibling Triangle: Petra Cotes regularly sleeps with the twins José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo without realizing they're not the same dude. The three contract a STD, which reveals the whole deal, and she breaks up with them. José Arcadio Segundo leaves Petra after getting better, but Aureliano Segundo gets her forgiveness and keeps her as The Mistress since he cannot marry her.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a09f3a65
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a09f3a65
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a1841170
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Generational Saga
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a1841170
comment
Generational Saga: Follows the Buendía family through many generations over more than a century.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a1841170
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a1841170
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a2492aff
type
Dogged Nice Guy
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a2492aff
comment
Dogged Nice Guy: Gerineldo Márquez, to Amaranta.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a2492aff
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a2492aff
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a3a7c41
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Black Sheep
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a3a7c41
comment
Black Sheep: Arcadio is this to the Buendía Family. His resentment grew during his childhood due to being neglected by all of them except for Melquíades, to the point that when he's told he doesn't deserve his last name, he proudly agrees, saying "I'm not a Buendía". This goes both ways, as his authoritarian ruling of Macondo during the war lead to Úrsula openly disowning him.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a3a7c41
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a3c6c2b7
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a3c6c2b7
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: Arcadio's last words before being shot by a firing squad:
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a3c6c2b7
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a70223
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Karma Houdini
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a70223
comment
Karma Houdini: The four punks who kill José Arcadio, steal all the gold coins, and are never heard from again. The banana company never faces any consequences for the massacre of thousands of people.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a70223
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_a70223
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_ad1db87c
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Oh, Crap!
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_ad1db87c
comment
Oh, Crap!: Just before the firing squad kills him, Arcadio realizes he forgot to say that his child should be named Remedios if it was a girl.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_ad1db87c
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_ad94c7a0
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Scars are Forever
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_ad94c7a0
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Scars are Forever: Amaranta, who burns her own hand as self-punishment for Pietro Crespi's suicide.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_ad94c7a0
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_ad94c7a0
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_adf84dea
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What Beautiful Eyes!
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_adf84dea
comment
What Beautiful Eyes!: Aureliano Amador, one of the 17 Aurelianos, had deep green eyes contrasting with his dark skin. Mauricio Babilonia. Fernanda was surprised when he saw him for the first and only time and looked into his deep brown eyes...and then she kicked him out of the Buendía house. Little Remedios was also noted as having beautiful green eyes.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_adf84dea
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b04fdcc4
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Loners Are Freaks
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b04fdcc4
comment
Loners Are Freaks: Most characters are loners in their own way, and freaky in their own way. The ones that are more obviously loners, such as the Hikikomoris, are also more obviously freaky (José Arcadio Buendía, Colonel Aureliano Buendía, et al.)
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b04fdcc4
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b06bbf4b
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Be Careful What You Wish For
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b06bbf4b
comment
Be Careful What You Wish For: Amaranta desperately hopes for something to delay Rebeca's wedding with Pietro Crespi so she won't feel she has to kill Rebeca. She gets her wish when Remedios dies, and she's horrified by it.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b06bbf4b
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One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b06bbf4b
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b2f26025
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Genki Girl
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b2f26025
comment
Genki Girl: Amaranta Úrsula, and to a lesser extent, her older sister Meme before her.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b2f26025
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City of Adventure
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b408c009
comment
City of Adventure: Macondo, your quiet smallish town somewhere in Latin Land... AKA Colombian Caribbean.
 One Hundred Years of Solitude / int_b408c009
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Miniature Senior Citizens
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Miniature Senior Citizens: The matriarch of the family, Úrsula Iguarán, lives until she is over 120 years old… and by that time has shrunk to the size of a fetus. She becomes so small that her descendants Aureliano and Amaranta Úrsula use her as their doll.
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Relationship Sabotage
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Relationship Sabotage: Amaranta does everything she can to sabotage Rebeca and Pietro Crespi's wedding, first convincing everyone to have the wedding in the new church which won't be build in years, and then taking the mothballs from her wedding dress so it will be eaten by moths. When the wedding is about to come anyway, she is at the point of resorting to killing Rebeca.
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Tyrant Takes the Helm
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Tyrant Takes the Helm: Arcadio takes over Macondo during the wars and rules harshly, killing many people.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: Several. And they are glorious.
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Remedios the Beauty, literally. It's implied that Melquíades does this at one point.
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Strawman Has a Point
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Strawman Has a Point: In-universe example: when conservative Apolinar Moscote explains politics to Aureliano, he makes strawmen out of liberals' positions on many topics. The only topic he's not apathetic about, legal acceptance of illegitimate children, is something in which he agrees with the liberals. What makes Aureliano become a liberal, however, is watching the conservatives commit electoral fraud right afterwards.
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Princess in Rags
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Princess in Rags: Fernanda. Lampshaded when she goes on a two-sentence rant that lasts more than two pages about how she was raised to be a queen, only to be treated like a servant by her in-laws, who have no respect for her or her golden chamberpot.
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: The novel has a reputation for being particularly time-disorienting. In one page, events happen at such rate that they could have easily taken a month or a year to take place, and the book is littered with instances where the amount of events either condensate or expand, with no particular time frame to place them even with linearity. The only semblance of a time frame comes from the generations of the Buendía family, which of course, have years in between. When one is done reading it, it does feel like a century in events.
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: Colonel Aureliano Buendía, having 17 sons with different women and one with Pilár Ternera; José Arcadio also does this after coming back to Macondo and before settling down with Rebeca.
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Tarot Motifs
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Tarot Motifs: Mentioned occasionally during Pilar Tenera's fortune tellings.
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Hope Spot
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Hope Spot: The last Buendía seems to have all the good qualities of both José Arcadios and Aurelianos, and is thus expected to achieve balance of the Sibling Yin-Yang and overcome the tragedy that seems to chase the family, he's eaten by ants the next day shortly before his father dies in the tornado that destroys their house and the whole town.
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Bestiality Is Depraved
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Bestiality Is Depraved: The Golden Child brothel has a dog who does this to be fed. José Arcadio Segundo takes up having sex with donkeys at one point.
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Apron Matron
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Apron Matron: Úrsula is a strong-willed matriarch who keeps the house in order and is capable of standing up to even the most willful of her family.
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Curb-Stomp Cushion
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Curb Stomp Cushion: Arcadio's army is outnumbered (being formed by only fifty men) and ill-prepared to meet the conservative forces when they attack Macondo. None of his men survive, but they manage to kill three hundred soldiers before dying.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: To some earlier stories by Márquez, such as Big Mama's Funeral. Also to Julio Cortázar's Rayuela by mentioning Rocamadour towards the end of the book.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: Arcadio being neglected and forgotten within the family leads to him going to extreme, violent lengths when he has a chance to have power over Macondo.
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Thread of Prophecy, Severed
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Thread of Prophecy, Severed: Aureliano Jos´ was destined to marry Carmelita Montreal, have seven children, and die of old age, but instead he ends up getting murdered at a young age due to not listening to Pilar Ternera's advice.
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Family Extermination
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Family Extermination: 16 of colonel Aureliano Buendía's sons are killed at the same time when he threatens to arm them against the government. The only ones not killed here are Aureliano José, who was killed earlier; and Aureliano Amador, who manages to escape until he is killed much later.
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Death of a Thousand Cuts
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Death of a Thousand Cuts: The last Buendía dies of this from an army of ants.
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Obliviously Beautiful: Remedios the Beauty is so beautiful that men get themselves killed over their lust for her. Due to her childlike mentality, she has no idea of the effect she has on men, and qualifies them as simple and dumb.
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Colonel Badass
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Colonel Badass: Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of course. Arcadio tries to be this, but it doesn't work.
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: Amaranta (starting, but not ending, with her rivalry with Rebeca over Pietro Crespi). Rebeca herself becomes this after the death of José Arcadio, shutting herself out from the world. Meme after losing Mauricio Babilonia.
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Mundane Made Awesome
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Mundane Made Awesome: Coupled with Unusually Uninteresting Sight. Nobody in the town is especially surprised when Remedios the Beauty ascends into heaven, because, of course she does. But when the railway comes to Macondo they think it's a huge iron monster.
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I Wished You Were Dead
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I Wished You Were Dead: Amaranta. Twice.
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Death by Childbirth
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Death by Childbirth: In a variation, little Remedios dies after a terrible miscarriage. Played straight with Amaranta Úrsula.
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All Girls Want Bad Boys
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Rebeca with José Arcadio. Úrsula Amaranta with Arcadio Babilonia.
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Tangled Family Tree
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Tangled Family Tree: Úrsula and José Arcadio Buendía are themselves cousins, then both of their sons have a kid with the same woman (and the son of the oldest one is raised by his grandparents only, who make him believe they're his parents), the two girls (one of them their daughter, the other a distant cousin) briefly fight for the same guy (and later the oldest son marries that cousin, who's such a distant cousin not even Úrsula and José remember how they're related, the cousin then being taken in after her parents died and raised as a sister to their kids, complicating things further), one of them has seventeen kids with seventeen different women, the eldest son of the youngest brother goes on to fall in love with his aunt, the son of the oldest son of Úrsula and José Arcadio has twins and nobody is really sure which one is which, both of them briefly sharing the same lover, who becomes the lifelong mistress to one of them, the wife of one of the twins hides her daughter's baby and he ends up dating his aunt (the wife's younger daughter) and having a baby with her, and they keep repeating names between generations.
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Awful Wedded Life
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Awful Wedded Life: Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda del Carpio's marriage. At one point, there's a page-long sentence of Fernanda ranting about her awful life, which provokes Aureliano Segundo to trash all of her fancy household equipment.
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Historical In-Joke: Colonel Aureliano Buendía's involvement in war between the Liberals and Conservatives. The massacre of some two or three thousand people by the banana company actually happened — the book just fictionalizes it.
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History Repeats
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Meme and Amaranta Úrsula have an age difference of more or less twenty years, as Meme had already completed her studies when she had a son and he's roughly the same age (maybe older by two or three years) as Amaranta Úrsula, the two being raised together.
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Censored Child Death
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Censored Child Death: The last Aureliano's fate. However, we do (along with his father) get to witness the corpse.
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Assassin Outclassin'
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Assassin Outclassin': Colonel Aureliano Buendía manages to avoid many assassination attempts due to a combination of luck and his premonitions.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: Arguably, Macondo reflects what the characters are going through: being mostly abandoned after the Buendía family had lost their glory, being full of life at the start of the novel, while the family had just settled in, etc. The Buendía house also reflects this strongly: going from the biggest house at the beginning to a decaying mess at the end.
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Determinator
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Determinator: José Arcadio Buendía. His sheer inability to give up on one mad dream after another results in the foundation of Macondo and drives the plot for the first several chapters of the book.
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Star-Crossed Lovers
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Meme and Mauricio Babilonia. Later on, Meme's son Aureliano becomes this with his own aunt. It's their love that results in the birth of a child with the dreaded pig tail, which pretty much dooms the Buendía family
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Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism: Fernanda Del Carpio, after separating Meme from Mauricio and finding out Meme is pregnant, sends her to a convent.
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Not Blood Siblings: José Arcadio, who marries his adopted sister Rebeca shortly after meeting her for the first time. Though this decision was met with some revulsion from Úrsula. But Rebeca is mentioned as being a relative of Úrsula, which would make her a cousin to her husband. Aureliano Babilonia thinks he's safe from this because he thinks he was adopted. Unfortunately, Amaranta Úrsula is actually his aunt.
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Magic Realism
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Magic Realism: This is a Gabriel García Márquez novel, after all. It is the book that helped bring the genre to wider attention.
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!
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I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: The mermaids: "The great swamp in the west mingled with a boundless extension of water where there were soft-skinned cetaceans that had the head and torso of a woman, causing the ruination of sailors with the charm of their extraordinary breasts."
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Exact Words: When Aureliano Segundo searches for gold hidden by Úrsula, he asks Pilar Ternera (a future teller) for help. She can only say that the treasure does indeed exist and is buried somewhere within a 122 meter radius of Úrsula's bed, which happens to be the exact distance to the end of the backyard. This leads Aureliano Segundo to dig up the entire backyard, to no result. After Úrsula dies, the treasure is found buried right under her bed.
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Bastard Bastard: Arcadio is born of an affair between José Arcadio and Pilar Ternera, and grows up to be a murderous and tyrannical ruler of Macondo during the war.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Big Damn Heroes: José Arcadio saves Colonel Aureliano Buendía from the firing squad.
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Quirky Town: Even without the Buendía family's interference, Macondo is pretty odd: it once rained for years, yellow flowers fell out of the sky after José Arcadio Buendía dies, the local brothel has a dog, etc. There are indications that the quirkiness isn't limited to Macondo. See, for example, the endless train journey mentioned near the end.
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Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Little Remedios and Remedios the Beauty.
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Creepy Uncle: Or Creepy Aunt, in this case; Amaranta is attracted to her nephew, Aureliano José, and they become physically intimate. However, they never go beyond touching, since she decides to stop the affair after Úrsula catches them almost kissing.
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Haunting the Guilty: José Arcadio Buendía is haunted by the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar, who he killed. They eventually form an odd friendship, because Prudencio is lonely in death and only has his enemy to talk to.
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Theme Naming: Lampshaded thoroughly, the characters themselves being aware of this. The José Arcadios are outgoing, stout and subject to a cruel, final fate. Aurelianos are more laid back, lonely and inquisitive. Played with in the third and fourth generations of the Buendía family. While Arcadio and Aureliano José each take after their fathers (José Arcadio and Aureliano, respectively), Arcadio's sons Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo take on the opposite personalities from what their names indicate. See Twin Switch.
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Brick Joke: The last of the 17 sons of Colonel Aureliano Buendi­a being killed. The last member of the Buendía family is born with a pig's tail, just as Úrsula had feared, many years ago, and it spells doom for the entire town they founded.
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