Thursday, March 29, 2007

SoUrCe FiVe

5. Marquez, Gabriel G.
1970

One Hundred Years of Solitude Text

The Book
- - Being that the themes are spread through out the book, various quotes and passages proved beneficial in my quest for knowledge. The characters and their personalities helped to exhibit certain themes of the book. For example, Jose Arcadio Buendia places himself into solitude after discovering that none of the objects the gypsies brought to him work. From this point on, many of his offspring display the same thoughts and actions when they encounter adversity. So the book is a very helpful source to understanding and using ''hands'' on material.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Source ThrEE and FoUr

4. McMurray, George R.
1987
Review of One Hundred Years of Solitude
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/introser/marquez.HTM
--This website is good to do research with because it gives you the larger picture of the storyline in the actual book. It explains the beginning, connects outside aspects of Latin America, and plugs in new ideas to the authors. Also, it is good for understanding the family history throughout the chapters. And the best part of the website is when the article explains the ending of the story to us. It gives another perspective that a reader may not look at. So all in all, it ties up the entire story to what you think, while explaining what solitude is all about.

3. Minta, Stephen and Cape, Jonathan
1987
Approach to History
http://bolivianstudies.org/history/journal/1994-5/Estorino.htm
--Understanding the approach to history is understanding solitude. At the end of the book when the memory is completely erased, I blame the Buendias family. They doomed their self into a fated destruction. If they understood that the story inside the story was about them, maybe they would not have been pushed into solitude by their own family members. So if the reader or in this case, the writer of the paper, can understand what was going on with not only the text, but also the family, then we can understand solitude. So this website can help you understand what is going on throughout the entire text, the author's thoughts, the author's biography and the family history.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

First and Second Sources

2. Lee, Margaret.
May 12, 1998 - - March 26, 2007
www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9181/main.html
- - This website allows me to understand solitude in different ways. There are different types of solitude. This website explains the different types individually to help the paper flow easier. The different types are solitude of : death, power, madness, disaster, and silence. Even though this website only explains these types of solitude, it can still help me add to the paper. The ordinary is not just put out, all options are, so it is very useful. Not only that, both websites that i have found go hand and hand with each other. They compliment the information that the other one does not give. So this website is more useful then.

1. Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia
March 12th, 2007
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>
--You are allowed to see the big picture on this page rather then just the ordinary. Normally when you read books, you only see the obvious, but this website allows you to see everything that is going on in the book. From the little themes that may not mean much to main themes like SOLITUDE, incest, disaster, and so on. By giving you all these details, it helps you understand your topic for your paper better. One will be able to get into detail by being able to use the entire book rather then just one theme. So in conclusion, everything on this page is able to help me understand my topic and the book so much more. With the website above each compliment one another, so this website is more useful now.