The Determining of Reality in Application to One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Nailah Calhoun October 26, 2014 Ms. Bacon English 11/12

How o we eter!ine realit"#

$ealit" is e%ine as the state o% things as the" actuall" e&ist. 'n One Hunre (ears o% )olitue b" *abriel *arc+a Mr-ue, there are !an" things that see! surreal or outlanish to us, but accete as realit" in the conte&t o% this noel. He taes the e&traorinar" an !aes is co!!on lace, si!ilarl" !aing the e&traorinar" see! %antastical. or e&a!le, in the beginning o% the boo, g"sies co!e b" the illage an bring !agnets an ice, an the" are regare as great, !agical things to 3ureliano Buen+a. 'n our own realit", ice an !agnets are nor!al, eer"a" things that !ost gie no secon thought to. erhas it is the %act that this is be%ore !agnets or ice are inente, or i% it is si!l" because the characters call the! !agic that the" are. 5rsula is going blin an aging rail" she co!!ents on the assing o% ti!e an how it goes so -uicl". 7he alteration o% the ercetion o% ti!e is a co!!on asect o% !agic realis! that we hae learne. )o was 5rsula seaing o%

Mr-ue8s writing ti!e so -uicl", or is it 9ust realit" %or her# 't8s harer to tell what is realit" when it is 9ust an obseration. But ' beliee that because it is an obseration she !ae, it is her realit". 7he oice narrating this boo is uneter!ine, so there is no reason to assu!e the %act that it coul be biase towar one certain character or sie. 7here%ore, we hae no choice but to accet what haens in the stor" as truth. erhas realit" is so!ething that !a" not be e%ine, or, is co!letel" eenent on what we accet. Chilren born o% incestuous relationshis, in our realit", are in anger o% haing !an" health riss an birth e%ects, where a chil born in the boo is born with a igs tail. Our science roes this to be i!ossible, but in their worl, this is as nor!al as the" co!e. :h"# )i!l" because. 7he %act that certain things that occur are %antastical an surreal b" our stanars in no wa" !eans that the" are an" less real. $ealit" is co!letel" eenent on the interreter, because eer"one e&eriences the worl i%%erentl". or the banana worers, the" e%ine realit" b" oor woring conitions. But %or the goern!ent, their realit" is that these worers were wrong an neee to get bac to wor. M" realit" at that !o!ent is that this is all haening in the ages o% a .% %ile on !" sister;s lato. Mr-ue8s

realit" is that he is the creator o% this worl so si!ilar to his ho!etown. 7he %act that the" are all seerate in no wa" !eans that the" are an" less real. erhas, the realities o% the characters are %ictional, "es, but Mr-ue still wrote it that wa", so we !ust accet it. 'n Chronicle o% a
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narrator# 't8s uncertain. 'n OH(3), it8s clearer to interret the realities o% the Buen+as an other townseole, een i% the" are astl" i%%erent %ro!