Arcadio, and Amaranta came to speak Guajiro before Spanish and learned to drink lizard broth and eat spider eggs from a Native American woman who cared for them.)Īctivity 1. Presence of indigenous peoples in Colombia is depicted.Banana Strike Massacre of 1928 in Ciénaga actually occurred near Aracataca.War of a Thousand Days and other civil wars are depicted.Regional split between coste ños and cachacos is reflected by Fernanda’s association with the latter. ![]() Formation of two political parties is depicted: the Liberals and the Conservatives.Presence of early Spanish explorers and English seafarer Francis Drake recalls the discovery of the abandoned Spanish galleon and the skeleton in armor.The mistress of José Arcadio and Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Pilar Ternera, runs a brothel in her old age. For part of his early career, García Márquez lived in a brothel.Courtship of García Márquez’s parents parallels the courtship of Meme and Mauricio Babilonia.She was superstitious and told many folktales, all in a deadpan manner, and she believed in ghosts and premonitions, as does Úrsula. García Márquez’s grandmother was Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes her middle name is the same as Úrsula’s last name.Grandfather introduced García Márquez to ice, paralleling Melquíades’s experience.He was rumored to have fathered sixteen children. His grandfather was Colonel Nicolás Ricardo Márquez Mejía, a Liberal veteran and a model for Colonel Aureliano Buendía.García Márquez’s birthplace, Aracataca, a small town on the Colombian coast, is similar to Macondo. Suggested comparisons between the novel and historical background: Worksheet 2: Historical Events in One Hundred Years of Solitude ![]()
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