You must post 2 times before Tuesday, April 10th. Your first post should be completed by Thursday, April 5th. It should be in response to one of the prompts below. The second time you post, it must be in response to, or in reaction to, the post of another student.
- Where do you see connections between what we've learned about Freud's ideas concerning the unconscious and our dreams and the way Gabriel Garcia Marquez has chosen to write this text? Give specific examples including passages from the text. Cite page numbers.
- Find a piece of art which you feel represents a passage or portion of the text. (You will need to paste the link to the artwork in your blog post so that other students may view it.) Explain your choice. Support your explanation by comparing the passage from the text with details from the artwork. Cite page numbers. Do not simply Google "One Hundred Years of Solitude art", do a little more of an in-depth searching on your own.
- Identify elements of the story that you find particularly interesting, or worthy of discussion. Pose your own questions. Include portions of the text that you feel contribute to your questions/your point. Cite page numbers.
On page twenty one in " One Hundred Years of Solitude" Jose Arcadio Buendia and Prudencio Aguilar have set up a match between each others roosters. This piece of art reminds me of this scene because it is two roosters fighting intensely. The match is close and very violent in the book and it appears to be the same way in this piece of art.At the end of this match Jose wins and Prudencio is very bitter about it.
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I think that this is a really good representation of the two men in a rooster fight because that was a really significant scene in the book. It really set off a lot of different events that really showed more of Jose Arcadion Buendia's character. It also led on to the killing of Prudencio and his ghost haunting him.
DeleteIn class we talked about dreams and how depending on what you dream about there can be a hidden message within, and even how certain dreams can be interpreted in different ways. In "One Hundred Years of Solitude" it reads as follows, "José Arcadio Buendía remembers his dream of Macondo as a city built with mirror-walls, which he interprets to mean ice." That direct quote from the book shows both how dreams can be interpreted to mean things and how what you dream about can tell you something about yourself.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a great observation. It shows and describes how differently people think. Dreams can be interpreted differently which can lead to a change in the way someone thinks. Dreams are important, once these people are plagued with insomnia, they begin to lose their memory. It shows that it is an essential part of a daily routine and when it is absent other things begin to change
Deleteon page 31 it talks of the gypsies brought a flying carpet to the village. It talks about this making easy transport. Everyone enjoys watching the gypsies drive these magic carpets and the children chase after them waving their hands in the air. While in the laboratory, the boys saw the carpet fly by a window level, they grew fascinated with it but Jose Arcadio Bunedia said, "let them dream." flying carpets are not a reality, this makes it seem like it is sort of a dream.
ReplyDeleteYes i definitely agree with you. What JAB says and the magic carpet are two good illustrations about how this represents magic realism.
DeleteI think that the inventions/discovery of new objects is interesting. The story tells us that the town is not very advanced, but I was surprised that they had never discovered ice before. On p. 17, Jose Arcadio Buendia says, "It's the largest diamond in the world." Later he says, "This is the great invention of our time." They really had never seen ice before! Aureliano touched it and said, "It's boiling." Because they had never seen it before, they thought it was so hot that it was boiling. He also tries to create a war weapon from a huge magnifying glass. I think these simple invention ideas are foreshadowing for the rest of the book. What do you think the next invention might be?
ReplyDeleteI had the same thoughts about the discovery of new things while I was reading the first couple of chapters. I found as I was reading that when they would come across a new 'invention' I would say to myself, 'Well, duh, it's ice (or whatever it happened to be). What did you expect?' But then I started reading form another perspective. The characters remind me of children with their innocent sense of wonder at these new inventions. I decided that the book is much easier to read and much easier to appreciate if you read it with the same sense of imagination and innocence.
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ReplyDeleteWell i chose this picture of a lightbulb because it was a very simple invention. The gypsies would bring along very basic inventions that people thought were the greatest things ever. Back when the light bulb was invented it was seen as a great invention. Just like the ice and magnet, very common for us today, seemed amazing to them back then.
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ReplyDeleteThe way they talked about the gypsie man, and how he would come and go as old and as young reminded me a lot of the movie about Benjamin Button. He started out old, and as his life went on grew younger and younger. Not necessarily parallel to what we are reading, but it is what almost immediately popped into my head! So, here is picture of benjamin button at an old and young age.
I had the same thought of the gypsie man. The characters in the book talked like he was the same man but looked young one day and old the next. The movie Benjamin Button has the same young and old image that popped into my head. The gypsie man is not mentioned mcuh in the book but i feel like he would be a very interesting character to read about.
DeleteThe points made by Alex and Alex are similar to thoughts that I had when the gypsie character was introduced. While the gypsie ages normally and Benjamin ages backwards, the fact that the gypsie seems to not be able to die are both instances of magic realism in the two stories.
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I found a painting of what I kind of imagined the young gypsy girl would look like. I pictured her in an old fashioned dress because Gabriel Garcia Marquez mentions her taking off "starched lace corsets" which are very outdated. I posted two pictures because I imagined the girl in between the ages of these two ladies in the paintings. The first paint ting fits the description the authors feds on page 33...he says, "She was a languid little frog, with incipient breasts and legs so thin that they did not even match the size of Jose Arcadio's arms." Also, on page 32, Marquez describes this lady as, "a very young gypsy girl, almost a child." So here are the pictures that I feel portray this young gypsy girl that Jose Arcadio ran off with.
Allie I really like the pictures that you choose to represent the gypsy girl that you thought Jose Arcadio would have run off with. These pictures that you choose also remind me of what the little daughter of Don Apolinar Moscote's would look like. On page 57, it talks about Remedios, who is only nine with lily-colored skin and green eyes. I picture both the young girls in the book to look like the paintings you found on the internet.
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ReplyDeleteThis link is really long...oops. I chose this painting of a Spanish galleon ship as a representation of the ship on pages 11 and 12 that Jose Arcadio Buendia found on his journey. The ship in the painting is on rough water and is still in one piece just as Jose Arcadio Buendia's ambition and hope is shaken upon the discovery but his ambition (crazy as it may be) that we've seen all throughout the book has still remained intact.
I really like this picture you chose, Gerene. I think the ship in the painting is a really good depiction of what that ship Jose Arcadio Buendia found might have looked like. I also like how the painting looks very old and worn down, much like the ship would have looked. The gloominess of the painting reminds me of the darkness the men must have experienced in the jungle when they came upon this ship.
DeleteI really like the picture you choose also! For some reason the colors of the picture seem to really go well with the mood that is being cast during the part of the story where they find the ship. Also, the other ships in the background almost add a foreshadowing effect towards the later civilization the Ursala comes to find later in the book. I really enjoyed this picture, awesome job!
DeleteThis painting that I found reminded me of the strange events that Jose Arcadio Buendia and his son, Aureliano, experience while Ursula is gone. On page 35, it talks about the weird things that happened, including a flask becoming to heavy to move, or Amaranta's wicker basket moving about the room in a circle. This picture portrays the event in the story when the boiling pot of water boiled for half an hour without any fire underneath it. These events also can refer to the magic realism and the ideas of dreams and how the author chose to write this book. These strange events seem to be a part of imagination and events that otherwise wouldn't really happen.
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Welch, i really like the picture you chose to depict those strange occurrences. The pot itself in the picture even looks like it may possibly be floating so it shows the magic realism really well. I also like how the background in the painting is dark because it could show how Jose Arcadio Buendia could be sad because of his wife's absence at home.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this painting because Macondo (the town that Jose Arcadio Buendia lived in)was much like the Garden of Eden in the Bible. The text says that many things were unnamed because the town was so new. In the Garden of Eden, the naming of things was left up to Adam.
I think a picture of the Garden of Eden is a great comparison to the village of Macondo. When Jose Arcadio Buendia found this village, nothing had a name and everything they found was considered to be a new "invention." Jose Arcadio Buendia and the rest of the village were in charge of naming all of the new things and finding their purpose in their society. Jose Arcadio Buendia and the people traveling with him were lost until they found Macondo, just as Adam and Eve were lost and confused after Eve ate the fruit. These villages show many similarities.
DeleteI agree with both Hanna and Ryan. I think that the Macondo was a new town and many things were not named just as in the Garden of Eden and the painting represents it well.
DeleteThroughout chapter one it talks about interest qualities of Aurelio. It seems to almost give him supernatural powers. I think this is something worth noting because I believe the author may be trying to foreshadow about upcoming events. I think this will be brought up again as the book progresses. This book has a lot of interesting qualities and Aurelio"s character adds another interesting twist that intrigues the reader.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same thing, because his family all seems to have special traits that not many others have, and important things tend to happen to them, but not the rest of the village. It's leading up to an important plot twist I bet..
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ReplyDeleteI choose this picture because it reminded me when Sir Francis Drake attacked Riohacha in the sixteenth century, Ursula Iguaran's great-grandmother became so frightened with the ringing of alarm bell and the firing of cannons that she lost control of her nerves and sat down on a lighted stove. The burns changed her into a useless wife for the rest of her days. This stove top looks like it would change anybody who sat on it. By picturing a vivid image of fire you can relate to the firing of cannons that makes the old lady lose control of her nerves.
On page 18 Jose Arcadio Buendia calls the ice "the greatest invention of our time." This is kind of something that most people wouldn't believe to be true. But in his world or his unconscious he believed that to be true. The picture I chose I chose because it looks like the ice is extremely beautiful and the man in the piece of art is looking at it with amazement just like Jose did in the novel. This ice I believe represents more than just ice it reprents the idea of thinking outside the box and believing in your unconsious.
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Deebs, I really like the picture you chose, because it does depict the man looking with amazement just as Jose did. He blindly believed that it was the most amazing invention when it really was not. The picture does a good job of depicting awe.
DeleteAlex Frank I think that your image of the stove perfecty depicts the image of Ursula. I believe also witht he fire Ursula is the fire that Jose has to deal with everyday upon every decsion that he makes. But yes it helps prove that her being a useless wife is casuing some problems and that she just isn't the same as she used to be.
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture of darkness, because in chapter 2, Jose Arcadio sneaks out into the night each night and sleeps with Pilar Ternera, a local woman. I chose this specific picture of darkness, because each time Jose Arcadio goes to look for Pilar he must travel in the dark. Not knowing what is in from of him. In the picture, behind the figure, the background lit up (already happened) and in front of the figure is dark, (unsure of whats ahead).
Michael, I agree with you on everything you said, the picture you choose did a great way of describing darkness. The picture uses light in the background and darkness in the foreground. Great pick Michael!
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ReplyDeleteI chose this picture to relate to the sign they posted about God existing. This is when they are beginning to lose memory and I found it interesting that these people chose this particular sign to be important to remember. If I was in the same position, I hope that I would make the same choice
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ReplyDeleteI feel this picture represents when Colonel Aureliano Buendia is about to be shot by the firing squad. O'Doyle Rules
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ReplyDeleteI think that this sculpture does a very good describing the part of the book where Jose Arcadio Buendia killed Prudencio after his rooster won in a fight. Prudencio makes a joke about how his rooster is more of a man than he is and Jose Arcadio Buendia takes it very hard and tells him that he is going to get a weapon and will be back in ten minutes to kill him. Jose Arcadio Buendia threw the spear and it pierced Prudencio throat killing him Pg 21.
I think that the way Garcia wrote this novel expresses the basic ideas of Freudian theories. There are a lot of dreamlike features to the way the characters experience life and the way they do things day to day.
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ReplyDeleteI think that this picture represents when JAB killed Prudencio on page 21 with a spear. After losing in a rooster fight Prudencio says that his bird is more of a man than JAB with ever be and JAB takes great offense to this. He tells him he will be back in ten minutes with a weapon to kill him. When he gets back Prudencio is waiting for him but JAB throws his spear right through his neck killing him instantly.
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ReplyDeleteI feel like this picture shows the rush JAB is going through to get his spear, running to his house and back to get the spear. Just the fact that he speared a guy and then was haunted by him and no one made a big deal about it kind of plays into the dream like reality that is played into the book.
I have been really curious how close to reality some of the characters Gabriel Garcia Marquez created. We discussed in class the connection between Rebecca and his sister. Also his grandfather and Colonel Aureliano Buendia with the amount of children they had. So are there any other connections between the charecters and his family, if so who??
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ReplyDeleteThis picture reminds me of Rebeca's struggle with insomnia. I think this picture does a really good job of showing the struggle of insomnia and it also does it in a magical realism way just like the book.
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This picture to me does a good job representing all of the different people in the story. Each branch would be a different person in the story.
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