The main content of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1)
Ser Arcadio Buendia is of Spanish descent. When he married Ursula, he was afraid of being like his aunt and Ursula. When her uncle got married, he would give birth to a child with a long tail, so úrsula would put on a special tights every night and refuse to have sex with her husband. Later, the husband was ridiculed by his neighbor Aguilar and killed Aguilar. From then on, the ghost of the deceased often appeared in front of him. The ghost's painful and desolate eyes made him restless day and night. So they had no choice but to leave the village and go out to find a place to live. They trekked for more than two years, and inspired by the dream, they came to a beach and settled down. Later, many people moved here and the place was named Macondo. This begins the century-old history of the rise and fall of the Buendia family in Macondo.
José Arcadio Buendia was a creative man. He saw magnets from the Gypsies and wanted to use them to mine gold. Seeing that a magnifying glass could focus sunlight, he tried to develop an extremely powerful weapon. He realized through experiments that "the earth is round, like an orange" through the viewing instrument and sextant given to him by the Gysai people for navigation. He was dissatisfied with the life in the poor and backward village where he lived, because Macondo was hidden in the vast swamps and isolated from the world. He was determined to open a road to connect Macondo with the great inventions of the outside world. But he led a group of people to work through all obstacles for more than two weeks, but ended in failure. Later, he studied alchemy and was obsessed with it all day long. Because his spiritual world was incompatible with the narrow reality of Macondo, he fell into a lonely courtyard and became insane. He was tied to a big tree by his family and died in that tree decades later. úrsula became the breadwinner of the family and lived to be 115 to 120 years old.
The second generation of the Buendia family consists of two boys and one girl. The eldest, José Arcadio, was born on the way to Macondo. He grew up there, had an affair with a woman named Pilar Ternera, and had a child. He was so frightened that he later married the family's adopted daughter, Rebecca. But he has always been wary of people and longed to wander around the world. Later, he really ran away with the Gypsies, became bohemian when he came back, and was strangely assassinated in the end. The second child, Aureliano, was born in Macondo. He could cry in his mother's womb and was born with his eyes open. He had the ability to foresee things since he was a child. When he grew up, he fell in love with Remedios, the daughter of the mayor. Before that, he had a son named Aureliano Jose with his brother's lover. After his wife died of a sudden illness, he participated in the civil war and became a colonel. In his life, he suffered fourteen assassinations, seventy-three ambushes and one shooting, but survived all of them. He lived with 17 foreign women and gave birth to 17 boys. These boys later returned to Macondo to find their roots, but they were all beaten to death within a week. Aureliano returned home in his old age and was as obsessed with alchemy as his father. He made gold fish every day until he died. Their sister Amaranta fell in love with an Italian technician, and later had incest with her nephew. The unsatisfactory love made her shut herself in her room sewing burial clothes all day long, feeling extremely lonely.
The third generation has only two cousins, Arcadio and Aureliano Jose. The former didn't know who his biological mother was, so he fell in love with her passionately, which almost led to a big mistake. The latter became the army commander of Macondo, committed corruption and perverted the law, and was finally shot by the conservative army. During his lifetime, he had a daughter and two sons without being married to a woman. His cousin was passionately in love with his aunt Amaranta, but was unable to marry her, so he joined the army, sought comfort from prostitutes, and eventually died in the rebellion.
The fourth generation is one girl and two boys born from Arcadio’s affair. The daughter, the pretty girl Remei, has beautiful and charming silk stockings. She exudes an unsettling smell, which has caused the death of several men. She was always willing to be naked and spend her time bathing repeatedly, and she was also wandering in the lonely desert. Later, when she was drying the sheets, she was blown up to the sky by a gust of wind and disappeared forever. Her twin brother, Arcadio Segundo, worked as a supervisor in an American banana company and incited workers to strike. Later, more than 3,000 workers were suppressed and suffered hardships, and he was the only one to survive. He witnessed the government using trains to transport the bodies of workers to the beach and dump them. He told everyone about the massacre, but he was considered insane. He was so frightened and disappointed that he finally locked himself in the house and studied the parchment manuscripts left by the Gypsies. The other Aureliano Segundo indulged in drinking and sex all day long, abandoned his wife, and hung out in his mistress's house. Strangely, this caused his family's livestock to multiply rapidly, bringing him wealth.
He and his wife had two daughters and one son, and later died of illness. Therefore, people never knew who the two brothers were.
The fifth generation of the Buendia family is the son and two daughters of Aureliano Segundo. The eldest son, Jose Arcadio, was sent to study at the Roman Theological Seminary when he was a child. His mother hoped that he would become a bishop in the future, but he had no interest in this and only deceived his mother for the sake of the imaginary inheritance. After his mother died, he returned home and made a living by selling his business. Later, in order to save the more than 7,000 gold coins that Ursula had hidden in the cellar, he was killed by gangsters. Her daughter, May Tess, was in love with a banana company apprentice, but her mother forbade them to meet, so they had to meet secretly in the bathroom. When her mother found out, she beat him to death on the pretext of being a chicken thief. Mei lost all hope and was sent to a monastery while pregnant. The youngest daughter Amaranta úrsula went to school in Brussels in her early years. After getting married there, she returned and saw Macondo in ruins, determined to rebuild her home. She was full of vigor and vitality, and her arrival made a most special person appear in Macondo. Her mood is better than that of the rest of the family, which means she wants to drive all the bad habits into the eighteenth level of hell. Therefore, she made a long-term plan to settle down and save this disaster-ridden village.
The sixth generation of the Buendia family is Aureliano Buendia, the illegitimate son sent back by May. He has been growing up in loneliness since his birth. His only hobby is to hide in the room of the gypsy Melquíades and study various mysterious books and manuscripts. He was even able to converse with an old gypsy who had been dead for many years and was instructed to learn Sanskrit. He has always neither cared nor cared about the world around him, but he was well aware of medieval knowledge. Since the return of his aunt Amaranta úrsula, he had unknowingly developed an irresistible love for her. The two had an incestuous relationship, but they believed that although they were tortured by loneliness and love, they After all, he is the only happiest person in the world. Later, Amaranta úrsula gave birth to a strong boy. "He was the only baby conceived due to love among the Buendias born in a hundred years." However, he actually had a pig's tail. Amaranta úrsula died of postpartum hemorrhage.
The boy with the pig tail is the seventh generation heir of this century-old family. He is besieged and eaten by a swarm of ants. At this moment, Aureliano Buendia finally deciphered Melquíades' manuscript. The inscription at the beginning of the manuscript is: "The first person in the family will be tied to a tree, and the last person in the family will be eaten by ants." It turns out that this manuscript records the history of the Buendia family . The moment he finished translating the last chapter, a sudden hurricane blew the entire town of Macondo away from the earth, and the town ceased to exist.
The main content of One Hundred Years of Solitude (2)
The novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" describes the magical and bumpy destiny of seven generations of the Buendia family, and depicts the story of the Colombian rural town of Maradona. A picture of Kondo rising, developing, and flourishing from a desolate swamp, and finally being swept away by a whirlwind and completely destroyed for more than a hundred years. It reflects the historical evolution and social reality of Colombia and the entire Latin America in the past century from the early 19th century to the first half of the 20th century. Macondo is a microcosm of Colombia and of all of Latin America. The novel begins with the marriage of José Arcadio Buendía and his cousin úrsula. Relatives and friends opposed the marriage because before that, one of úrsula's aunts married an uncle of Buendía's, who were also cousins, and gave birth to a child with a pig's tail after the marriage. úrsula was afraid that she would also give birth to such a child, and she refused to have sex with Buendía for more than a year after their marriage. This incident slowly spread, and the villagers began to laugh at Buendia's incompetence as a husband. Once, Buendia defeated his neighbor Agerir in a cockfight. Ajilior became angry and humiliated him in public. In a fit of rage, Buendia stabbed Agiel to death with a spear during the duel. Since then, the family has been haunted by the ghost of Ajimul for a long time. In order to avoid disaster, he had no choice but to travel far away. Buendia led his family and villagers to trek through mountains and rivers for more than two years, and finally stopped at a deserted river. Buendia had a dream, dreaming that a lively city stood here, and heard a loud and beautiful name: "Macondo". After waking up, he decided not to move forward and built a village with the villagers and named it "Macondo". Since then, Macondo has gradually prospered. His family has lived here for more than a hundred years, and the incense continues to the seventh generation.
Many years later, Buendia suddenly went crazy. People tied him to a chestnut tree in the yard. He actually lived like this for more than half a century before dying. His wife Ursula was in good health, lived for more than 100 years, and bore him two sons and one daughter. The eldest son, José Arcadio, was born during the trip. When he grew up, he had a relationship with Pilar Ternera, a woman who often worked at his house and could tell fortunes with cards. They gave birth to a child named Arcadio. , Arcadio was captured and shot by government troops during the civil war.
Buendia’s youngest son, Aureliano, was the first child born in Macondo. He later married Remedios Mocott, the youngest daughter of the mayor sent by the government, but before his marriage, he also had a relationship with Pilar Ternera, and their son was named Aureliano Jose. One night Remedios Mocott suddenly died violently. The Buendia couple's daughter is called Amaranta. They also adopted an orphan girl, who was said to be a relative of theirs, named Rebeca, but the old couple never remembered this relative. Rebeca had a peculiar habit of eating dirt and lime. When she grew up, she was very unsatisfied in love and later married José Arcadio. In the third generation, in addition to Arcadio and Aureliano José born to Piera Ternera, there were 17 Aurelianos born to 17 women according to ancient customs during the Aureliano Civil War. The fourth generation are all descendants of Arcadio who was shot dead by government forces. The daughter was beautiful and named Remedios the Beauty. The two posthumous twins were named José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo. The two brothers looked exactly the same, behaved in the same dissolute manner, and both hung out with a woman named Petra Cote. The fifth generation of this family are all the children of Aureliano Segundo. His son is José Arcadio, and his daughters are Renata Remedios (Meme) and Amaranta úrsula. There is only one person in the sixth generation, Meme's son Aureliano Buendia. He fell in love with his aunt Amaranta úrsula, and after their marriage they gave birth to a baby with a pig's tail, the seventh and last generation of the family. After the child was born, his mother died due to excessive postpartum blood loss. The child soon turned into "a swollen, dry skin." Aureliano Buendía returned from the outside and found that the child had been dragged into the cave by ants and eaten. He usually likes to delve into the "Parchment" manuscript written in Sanskrit about his family history left by the early Gypsy Melquíades. He had been unable to understand clearly, but then he suddenly understood. The most critical words were: "The first person in this family will be tied to a tree, and the last person will be eaten by ants." A breeze blew, filled with the rustle of ancient geraniums...
He continued reading, "By this time Macondo had become a terrible whirlwind, wrapped in the dust of the biblical hurricane, Rubble, Aureliano was afraid of being delayed by well-known historical facts, so he skipped 11 pages and began to read the moment he was experiencing. While he was experiencing this moment, he read this period of history, and he himself predicted the secret of the last side of the sheepskin, It was like he was talking to himself in front of the mirror." He skipped a paragraph to read the last date and the scene of his own death, "but before he got to the end, he already understood that he would never leave this house. He has foreseen that this mirror city will be completely swept away by the wind and will disappear from people's memory..." Everything written here will never be repeated again, because "a race destined to be alone for a hundred years will never appear on the earth again. superior". Small towns disappeared, families died. The novel ends here.