one hundred yerar o soltude

The setting of One Hundred Years of Solitude is the fictional town of Macondo, Columbia, which is much like Garc?a M?rquez?s own hometown of Aracataca. The time is span is unclear at times, but it is roughly from the early-mid 19th century to the mid-20th century. Macondo is isolated, rural, and surrounded by jungle. The Buend?a matriarch who keeps the story of the pig?s tail alive in the family; as she ages, she shrinks, until she looks like a doll and people have forgotten she is still even alive. The Buend?a patriarch who marries his cousin but is prevented from consummating the marriage for months because of fears surrounding the story of the pig?s tail; discovers Macondo and The mysterious gypsy who is the friend of Jos? Arcadio Buend?a; returns periodically to Macondo, even when he is thought dead. His parchment turns out to be the story of the Buend?as written in The first person born in Macondo, and as such can be seen as in some way characteristic of the city and the novel; is clairvoyant Son of Jos? Arcadio and ?rsula; saves his brother, Colonel Aureliano Buend?a from the firing squad but dies violently The motherly mistress of Jos? Arcadio (II) and Colonel Aureliano Buend?a; with the former she has Jos? Arcadio (III) and with the Adopted daughter of Jos? Arcadio Buend?a and ?rsula and becomes the wife of Jos? Arcadio Segundo; is also a second cousin of ?rsula which causes ?rsula to oppose the marriage out