Theme Of Change In One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Solitude, an emotion many have felt before in their lives, plays a very important role into developing who one becomes or will become. The events that lead people into solitude are different from everyone and in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel, “One Hundred Years Of Solitude”, this proves to be a very important topic when describing the fictional town of Macondo and the effects it has on others. These changes are depicted through a journey. Starting with the changes that have led to the current conditions in Macondo. To what type of solitude these changes have produced. And finally, to how these changes and devastation affect the characters and their families in the novel. Thus, the events leading to Macondo’s solitude affect the characters and

This in turn causes Macondo’s condition to be that of a town built on guilt regardless of what the current conditions may be. Similarly, later on in the novel Macondo has a sort of rebirth with the coming of the train and later on with the arrival of the banana company. The train becomes a way for Macondo to be more connected with the nearby cities and in turn, the world. This progress however brings about the tragedy of the banana company which at first came as a blessing in disguise by providing jobs as well as amplifying the size of Macondo, even managing to create a second village on the other side of the railroad tracks. Along with the amplification of Macondo, more people from other places began to arrive and populate the town with things never seen before, “[...] The suspicious inhabitants of Macondo barely began to wonder what the devil was going on when the town had already become transformed into an encampment of wooden houses with zinc roofs inhabited by foreigners who arrived on the train from halfway around the world[...]. The gringos, who