At fifteen years old, she returned to the Institute to further her education. Her study of piano and violin led the Institute to hire her as a music teacher. She graduated in 1895. When she received her diploma, Zitkála-Šá gave a speech advocating for women’s rights
going back to the institute was best fro her. she got an education and was hired as a music teacher. she got a diploma and gave a speech advocating for women's rights
She returned to live with her mother on the Yankton Reservation in 1887, but left only three years later. She felt that she did not fit in after her experiences at the Institute
why did she feel like she did not fit in? maybe she felt she was just too different
In terms of style, it opened the doors to new ways of writing, but it also decentralised Europe as the heart of new literature. The first edition of the novel sold out in a matter of weeks, unheard of for a Latin American author.
this novel opened new opportunities for many future authors
The fact that a powerful company was able to get away with it, and then calmly deny the massacre with impunity led to the creation of the term “banana republic”.
this is very interesting. i did not know that is how the term "Banana Republic" came about.
The Buendías are constantly entangled in passionate and unhealthy love affairs, driven by their obsessions, haunted by their secrets. Members of each generation repeat, or respond to, the destructive choices of the last, the patterns of behaviour they are raised with and locked into.
i think the same actions are repeated over and over to teach the readers a lesson
One Hundred Years of Solitude is funny, tragic, sensual and political. The novel explores cyclical time, meta-fiction, social taboos, the history of Latin America and more specifically, Colombia.
the book exspresses many different emotions
It goes back to José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán, who found Macondo in the middle of the jungle, and it finishes roughly 100 years later with baby Aureliano, the cursed child born with a pig’s tail.
It is wild to me that it starts so far back and basically jumps to 100 years later
Most recently, I read the book because Netflix is about to release an adaptation of the novel, which I find exciting and alarming in equal measure.
i think it is cool that Netflix released something similar to the novel mainly because it is old
this story introduces Macondo and the Buendia family. Jose becomes fascinated with inventions brought by traveling gypsies (magnets and alchemy) He dreams of discovering new things. he leads an expedition to find the sea. The chapter also introduces his sons Jose Arcadio and Aureliano. it ends with Jose Arcadio amazed by ice because he has never seen it before. The chapter shows themes of curiosity, isolation, family, and the strange connection between past and future.
José Arcadio (the son) returns, enormous and tattooed, and marries his adopted sister (Rebeca), and Pietro Crespi turns his affections to Amaranta
this is weird to me because that is still his sister..
the ghost of a man who José Arcadio had killed
why did he kill this man and why is the ghost haunting them
The story follows the Buendía family across several generations in the fictional town of Macondo, exploring themes of solitude, memory, and the cyclical nature of history
i like that there are many themes with this story but it can also make it a little confusing
Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in stillness rocks. All is visible and all elusive, all is near and can't be touched. Paper, book, pencil, glass, rest in the shade of their names. Time throbbing in my temples repeats the same unchanging syllable of blood. The light turns the indifferent wall into a ghostly theater of reflections. I find myself in the middle of an eye, watching myself in its blank stare. The moment scatters. Motionless, I stay and go: I am a pause.
i think it's talking about a person who feels stuck. they don't know if they want to stay still or move forward. this person realizes everything is visible but impossible to fully understand
CounterpartsIn my body you search the mountainfor the sun buried in its forest.In your body I search for the boatadrift in the middle of the night.
talks about 2 people deeply connected. they are searching for something within each other. to me this shows that you can look at someone you love for comfort.
Octavio PazFollowLast DawnYour hair is lost in the forest,your feet touching mine.Asleep you are bigger than the night,but your dream fits within this room.How much we are who are so little!Outside a taxi passeswith its load of ghosts.The river that runs by is alwaysrunning back. Will tomorrow be another day?
this poem talks about 2 people. one is awake and one is sleeping. he talks about how small they are compared to the night. he says their dreams are bigger then anything. he also suggests uncertainty about the future.
Paz talks about the women's body and mind and admires it
poems are not my favorite and i didnt exactly understand it but i think he is trying to say that everything around us is always changing
Porfírio Díaz served as president from 1876 to 1909, and although he brought many improvements to the country, he was also a ruthless dictator whose policies benefited the powerful at the expense of the poor.
he used his power for bad instead of good.
The literature evolved through colonial influences, blending European and indigenous languages and themes, particularly during the tumultuous periods of the Mexican Revolution and subsequent sociopolitical changes.
different influences contributed to literature aspects through cultures
when he was younger Paz spent time in the United States and Spain. while being there he was influenced by the Modernist and Surrealist movements. this helped his future works
Octavio went to the National University of Mexico and studied law and literature. He began his literary career in his teens by founding an avant-grade magazine and publishing his first book of poems. (Barandal, Luna silvestre)