https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062 Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2016-10-01 21:52:36 UTC 2026-01-14 16:36:22 UTC hello@padlet.com cbielefeld https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127698918 One Hundred Years of solitude is a story about the Buendía family through seven generations. It contains nearly 30 main characters, progressing through the history of Macondo, a city founded by José Arcadio Buendía in near complete isolation. ]]> 2016-10-01 21:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127698918 cbielefeld https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699052 Every year a band of gypsies visits the town, and brings new scientific discoveries. José Arcadio becomes obsessed, and throughout the rest of his life he pursues one theory after another. This also happens to several of his descendants, until the last one unscrambles a prophecy left by a man named Melquíades. It describes each of the events that befall the members of the family. The book ends here, with the town being swept away by "apacalyptic like winds", which simply refer to a hurricane. ]]> 2016-10-01 21:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699052 cbielefeld https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699124 Each of his children go through their own stories, and so on with their children. As time progresses the family members become greedier and more selfish, eventually leading to them losing their wealth and dying]]> 2016-10-01 22:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699124 cbielefeld https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699290 Notable events include the arrival of a conservative government, everybody contracting insomnia and memory loss, a civil war between the Liberals and the conservative government, and countless accounts of murder and plotting. ]]> 2016-10-01 22:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699290 cbielefeld https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699457 The book also follows how Macondo industrializes and grows. Traders set up shops and routes, more and more people pass through, and eventually a banana plantation sets up near the town. This leads to a worker uprising sponsored by one of the great-great grandchildren, and a massacre of the striking workers. ]]> 2016-10-01 22:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699457 cbielefeld https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699549 All in all this is a very pessimistic book, a huge representation of what happened to Columbia during the colonial period and as it traveled into the modern age. ]]> 2016-10-01 22:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cbielefeld/wf4vzi1d5062/wish/127699549