Journal Entry Ideas

Journal entry 1-Culture: The Cultural aspect of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that I found that the Gypsy culture had a great affect on the plot of the story. When the gypsies came into Macondo and brought and shared their findings it changed the perspectives of the people in Macondo. The person who got most influenced by the gypsies was Jose Arcadio Buendia, he was mostly influenced by Melquiades, Jose Arcadio Buendia was so amazed of what Melquiades would bring everytime he came to Macondo, he became obsessed. Although the inventions that the gypsies brought helped the people live better lives and were great use there was also a bad side. Jose Arcadio Buendia would just be locked up in his room conducting experiments isolating himself from the world. Ursula, Jose Arcadio Buendia’s wife started disliking what the gypsy culture had brought to Macondo, turned the whole population of the village against the gypsies. Its almost as if the gypsy culture was good for the people in Macondo because it brought a change and more advancements “In an instant they transformed the village”. It also showed how Macondo was so isolated from all the new things coming into
Colonel Aureliano Buendia was the most influenced in military because he focused only on the wars and politics. He started separating from his family but Ursula reminds him that through his changes, she still has the right to point out what he’s doing wrong even though he believes he’s superior. During this part of the chapter every family member has some kind of internal conflict and confusion, people are being let down, some go back to their old habits, friends become enemies, death, and depression. This part of the book showed most of the down fall of the family, you can tell they start to drift apart as they isolate themselves in their own