Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, lived and experienced a religious Latin American life. These experiences played a vital function in the development of his characters, specifically Jose Arcadio Buendia. Jose Arcadio Buendia was the founder of the innocent city of Macondo where the world was so recent that many things lacked names. (p. 1) He was a strong coordinator and looked to as a requireer.As Melquiades and the other(a) gypsies passed with the village, Jose Arcadio Buendias attention was quickly captured. Fascinated by their magic and determined to learn more, he bartered the most valuable possessions of his family in exchange for their mystical tools. He would then spend his time arduous to figure out how to use these tools and what they meant, unaware of the fact that his constant pursuit for knowledge would soon lead to his downfall.In the meantime, he became obsessed with trying to find finish outside of Macondo, a task he had failed to do but his wife, Ursula, had simply completed months later. I believe Jose Arcadio Buendias desire to find other refining is related to his obsession for knowledge and information for reasons beyond just the simple founding of people. The discovery of civilization will not only allow him to find more unknown information, but will in like manner subconsciously allow him and his family to interact with more people.It is possible that this subconscious quest for social interaction is the real(a) cause of the introversion and solitary confinement that is evidently a characteristic of his family line. This unintentional corruption of his family is coherent with the significance of Jose Arcadio Buendia within the smart. The innocence of the ride out of Macondo was also tainted through Buendias obsession for facts and information.If he had not sought answers, the gypsies whitethorn train had no incentive to return to Macondo, Jose Arcadio would have never impregnated the itiner ant girl or joined the gypsies as they left town, and Ursula would have never followed Jose Arcadio and returned with knowledge of the path through the swamp that led to other civilization. In fact, even if the gypsies continued to pass through the village and Ursula all the same found the path through the swamp, it was her husbands obsession of finding other civilization that make mentioning of this path significant.Beyond this unfolding sequence of events, the search for justice corrupts humans abilities to live in illusion worlds without realizing the fantasy of it. Once truth is revealed, the world previous to that truth will be interpreted as an in clear up way of life. Thus, continuing the attempt to live that incorrect life after knowing the truth will now be interpreted as a fantasy. If truth had not been revealed, the village of Macondo could have lived in a fantasy world without interpreting it as a fantasy.In searching and revealing the truth, Jose Arcadio Buendia corr upted the imagination of the villagers with a correct answer for things. Soon things began to have specific names and people had correct ways of life. I find Macondo to be the Garden of Edens second chance. If the world of the novel were compared to the Holy Bible, then Jose Arcadio Buendia would symbolize Adam. His obsessions and constant search for knowledge is clearly analogous to Adam and evening when they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.The subsequent downfall of the Buendia family as well as the rest of Macondo is the same as Adam and Eve being outlawed from Eden and sentenced to live a person life. When Jose Arcadio Buendia is tied to a tree by the other villagers, it is a symbol for how Bible followers, such as Christians, are trying to separate themselves from Adam and Eve through redemption and reconciliation. Through the death of the Buendia line, Marquez may be trying to reveal the possibility that the line of Adam and Eve can also be ended.