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Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957)
Discussions on literary topics in spanish literature and cinema
La Molendera 1924
Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957)
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My favorite character in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is Ursula. She is the keystone of the Buendia family and keeps them together. No matter how fragmented the family becomes she manages to keep a sense of order in the family home in Macondo. Even though family members are constantly being married, having children, running away and dying she still retains a unique sense of dignity that only she posses. Again and again she keeps the family in line. She keeps her sons in order when they become too tyrannical in their ruling of Macondo. Even physical disabilities do not stop her. She becomes blind but she continues to function and simply memorizes the positions of everything in the house. The other members of the family do not even realize that she has lost her sight. She is a very determined woman.
Time and Time again Ursula saves Macondo and the Buendia family. At the beginning of the novel when Jose Arcadio becomes enthralled with the mystical workings of the world and leaves the family to come up with its own income it is Ursula who rises to the occasion and opens up a pastry shop. This business helps the Buendia family survive and prosper and allows them to live in one of the most beautiful houses in Macondo. Ursula even connects Macondo with the outside world. When she goes off in search of her first born son she returns with a group of immigrants and she has discovered away through the mountains and swamps to the other towns. Ursula is also blessed with longevity. She just keeps on living and even passes the incredible age of 110. Near the end she becomes a play thing of the children in the house and even after her death she remains and important figure in the Buendia family. It is because of these admirable traits that Ursula is my favorite character.
-Leon
Despite the obvious personal flaws, strange impulsiveness and overall lethargy and cynicism with which he is portrayed, Colonel Aureliano Buendia still stands out as my favorite character for many reasons. Primarily the most flattering attribute of the Colonel is his life's work and the reputation he created for himself and his family. In my opinion he is easily the most accomplished of the Buendias, triumphing fairly weak competition consisting of Jose Arcadio Buendia's confirmation of already known truths and Aureliano's (by Babilonia) deciphering of Melquiades' parchments. Also, Aureliano was very unique in the family in that he was liked and respected by practically everyone. This is true to the extent that Amaranta, whose solitude was legendary even to the Buendias, professed upon her death bed that the Colonel was the only person she loved and respected. Furthermore, Colonel Aureliano Buendia defies Marquez's nominal system that decrees "Aurelianos" be intellectual and reserved while "Arcadios" are bold and industrious. The colonel on the other hand seems to fulfill both sides of the equation throughout his novel with his feverish fixation for silverwork combined with his epoch of military prowess and fame. Also unlike many other characters, Colonel Aureliano Buendia seems to serve a purpose for a cause greater than his own existence. His contribution to the Colombian Revolution was undoubtedly vital in its success. His persistence in both his span of military fame and retirement to his gold fishes portrays an element of dedication that seems aberrational in the company of the meaningless periodical interests of his predecessors and decendants. Finally, I respect Colonel Aureliano Buendia the most because he is portrayed incessantly as the smartest and most insightful member of the family, even moreso than Ursula, whose age and spirt (as well as her inability to see) make her almost oracle-like. Even in his days of loneliness and solitude, his melancholy and lethargy is still depicted with sage-like cynicism and cunning. In short, Colonel Aureliano Buendia's greatness is justified by the sole fact that his reputation could survive the test of time in a society where memory was as plagued as the countrymen.
Bruno
My favorite character from One Hundred Years of Solitude was Renata Remedios, known as Meme, because she was the character with which I could most easily relate. Due to Gabriel Marquez’s writing style, particularly his use of magical realism (in which the bizarre and unexplainable happen), Moncado and its inhabitants are rather surreal. While each character is very complex, their human qualities are often over exaggerated, leading the characters to do unusual and inexplicable things (and making it very difficult to connect with the character as a whole). Yet Meme is the exception. She actually appears to be a normal teenage girl, going through the angst of adolescents as any teenager would. While other characters randomly float up to the heavens (Remidos the Beauty) or die of no known cause (José Arcadio), Meme remains firmly in reality while trying to find a balance between her father’s partying lifestyle and her mother’s controlling ways.
Her struggle to find herself is what makes her so endearing. Though on the surface she appears docile and studious, her spirit is much closer to that of her fun-loving father. I loved the fact that Meme plays the clavichord to placate her mother, and then uses it as an excuse to sneak away with her friends. Her many adventures running around, laughing, and getting drunk are all part of the usual experiences of those in their teen years (everyone rebels). What I thought was the most interesting was how Remidos pitches one parent against the other, using their dislike for each other to better herself--for instance, she says she’s with her father when really she is sneaking out to meet a boy--as many children of divorce or separation are known to do. And Meme, unlike the other women in her family, maintains a normal, if forbidden, relationship with a worker at the banana plantation, Mauricio Babilonia. Watching her experience a normal(ish) childhood, filled with fights with mom, parties with friends, and new love, is like a breath of fresh, normal air compared to what other characters are subjected to.
Though Meme’s story ends tragically when Mauricio is “accidentally” shot and she is struck mute and is shipped off to a convent to give birth to an illegitimate son, Meme still remains my favorite character for the normalcy she displays is her earlier year. In a book in which my concept of time and reality were often upended, it is nice to know that some things, like the ways of teenage girls, remain the same.
--Liza
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