One Hundred Years of Solitude is about on imagined mythical town which is named as Macondo. Its foundation, rise, development and death throughout the history of its founders; Buendia family is narrated. It is the evolution and eventual decadence of a small Latin American town and its inhabitants. The novel is dominated by Colombian settings and the Buendia family is a Colombian family of those times that the story takes places. At that point, the reader may question the position of the book. Is the story of the fictional town Macondo and Buendia family simply about the failure of that particular town and family or is there something beyond. Did Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, spend three years to write this book that then became his master piece, only because he wanted to talk about an imagined town, an imagined family and their failure. Or, is the book a metaphor for Latin America's, specifically Colombia's and her peoples history. Did Marquez write this book to paste it on history as an example of a

history not to be repeated again, to paste it as a warning. As the second part of this assay, I want to f

Rhizomes create smooth space, and cut across

Melquiades influences Jose Arcadio Buendia. He helps

Marquez points out that Buendias did have the chance to construct a better way of living but they wasted it. Their tree structured lifestyle trapped them and prevent them from finding new paths. Buendias overlooked the beauty of the heterogeneous thinking and behaving and stacked with the useless homogenous way of living that ended their aimless existence. Their aimless living left its place to a tabula rasa, a new fresh start at the end of the novel. Famous Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, by creating this new page, by eliminating the Buendia family, is preparing a new chance for other peoples, in fact for Latin Americans. His book is now pasted on history with the help literature and the intended readers may look at it and learn a lot from it. The story of Macondo and Buendias is not simply a story of a fictional town and its inhabitants. Marquez uses Aureliano's method, pasting names on objects to remember their names and functions. By pasting this book as a warning, Marquez names the true history of Colombia. He retells the civil war; the War of One Thousand Days and the banana massacre that is denied by the Colombian Government and erased from history books. Marquez pasted his book to show some overlooked parts of Colombia's history and the dangers of circularity and repetitions and he wants his book to be a guide, a warning at least for a better future.

" "He's become a gypsy!" she shouted to her husband, who had not shown the slightest sign of alarm over the disappearance. "I hope its true," Jose Arcadio Buendia said, grinding in his mortar the material that had been ground a thousand times and reheated

Then Jose Arcadio Buendia decided to build a memory machine but the absolute solution came with Melquiades, the old gypsy. He brought the permanent remedy and whole town's memory back. Writing the names of the objects on piece of paper and pasting them on the objects is a method used against memory lost. The past, values, names, and functions of objects and even feelings were remembered by the help of this method. In fact, it is Marquez who has invented that method and he has named his peoples, Colombia's history and pasted it to literature. By this way, Latin Americans would be able to see what their history was like and construct their future accordingly. Marquez pasted his book as a warning for Colombian peoples, to give them a chance to view their past and behave accordingly. So they would have the chance to see and reinterpret their past that would enable them to construct a better future. One has to rethink, retell and deconstruct his history for a better future as Salman Rushdie mentions in his Imaginary Homelands:

"and after sometime she discovered that every member of the family, without realizing it, repeated the same path every day, the same action, and almost repeated the same words at the same hour. Only when they deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of loosing something" (252)

An other important issue in One Hundred Years of Solitude is gypsies and their nomadic lifestyle. Gabriel Garcia Marquez mentions gypsies and their culture that plays on important role for the Buendia family. It is obvious that gypsies in Marquez novel is another culture that is closely analyzed and narrated. Their effects on the Buendia family can not be denied. Their arrivals and departures effects all the inhabitants of Macondo. Since they are the only culture that is closely narrated other from the inhabitants of Macondo, the reader may search the differences and/or similarities between these to distinct cultures. Gypsies with their nomadic way of life full of change, flexibility and mobility can be compared with settlers of Macondo, specifically the Buendia family. The reason of that comparison is to find some clues about the failure of Buendia's.

"on that suffocating noontime when the old

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