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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude Question: Illustrate how the theme of the novel you read is developed and enhanced by plot, character and setting. Enhance your essay with specific references to the text. This novel seems to have multiple themes. One important theme is that every action causes a reaction, and one person’s doing can result in something unpredicted. Similarly, it also seems to say that fate is bound to happen, no matter …

…blends together, to return to the book’s beginning, as Macondo continues towards its inevitable self-destruction. Even though the Buendias were a strong family, their fate had been pronounced since the incestuous marriage over a century before their collapse. By refusing to acknowledge the world outside of their village, they unknowingly sealed their fate. As said in the book: “Races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”