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             such specific physical, emotional, and mental details, the reader feels as though living the moments, that are in actuality so far from reality.

             Garcia Marquez has said, " One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a history of Latin America, it is a metaphor for Latin America." (Garcia, 449) The parallel includes colonization, settlement, scientific discovery, civil wars, technology changes, and th.

             disappearance, and forgotten long-established life. "historical cycle lived through character after character." (Kazin, 149) Examples of such politically historical events are of captured ships, the New world, and technology. References are made from th.

             first chapter when Jose Arcardio Buendia finds an old suit (description of an armor) and the remains of a galleon far from the sea, in metaphor to the raids of the English sailors. Jose Arcardio Buendia finding Macondo fits a metaphor to Christopher C.

             umbus finding America, the New World. ".the world was so new, many things did not have names and to mention them one had to point with a finger." (Garcia, 71) When the pioneers first found Americas, the new plants, animals, and resources were so astra.

             e to them, that they too could only mention things with a point of a finger, rather than by a familiar name. Technology was also a prominent metaphor. Mequiades and the gypsies had tools to help them navigate, a magnify glass, and other new devices Ma.

             ndo had never seen before. In the very same way, the Indians had things the pioneers had not seen before, popcorn, different farming and hunting techniques, that left the settlers in astonishment many times. .

             Automatically, repetition takes precedent in the novel. Repetition- a confusion and a problem that has plagued the human race since the beginning of time. From before the medieval times, throughout the 19th century, to currently in the 21st century,.