Line #7 YMMV/OneHundredYearsOfSolitude


1	* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing now that Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/07/gabriel-garcia-marquez-career-dementia suffered from senile dementia]] and could no longer write near the end of his life makes the insomnia plague parts a bit of a cringe to read.
2	* HilariousInHindsight: One of the characters' nicknames is {{Meme\|ticMutation}}. It's pronounced differently in English, but it still looks hilarious on text. Ironically, the pronunciation of the two words are the same in the original Spanish.
3	* MemeticMutation:
4	** "Cease, cows! Life is short!"
5	** "The earth is round, like an orange."
6	* NightmareFuel: Full of this stuff, especially towards the end [[spoiler: like Ursula shrinking to the size of a fetus, and the last Buendia baby being eaten by ants]].
7	* OneSceneWonder: One of the book's greatest strengths is how characters who appear for just a few pages manage to make a lasting impact. Of note is Camila "The Elephant" Sagastume, a BigBeautifulWoman who only appears for a few paragraphs to challenge Aureliano Segundo to an eating contest, then disappears from the narrative.
8	** The poor Candida Eréndira, who is forced to prostitute herself by her own grandmother after an accident which led to their home burning down. She briefly appears in Macondo. Her story only gets fleshed out in Gabriel García Márquez's short story collection The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother.
9	* SignatureLine: The opening line.
10	--> "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
11	* {{Squick}}:
12	** It's mentioned that Úrsula's fear of consummating her marriage to her [[KissingCousins cousin/husband José Arcadio Buendia]] was caused by her learning how inbreeding in the family led to its members giving birth to ''iguanas''
13	** Rebeca has a habit eating dirt and whitewash. Even when the Buendias have broken this habit of hers, she still occasionally falls back into it when she's ''very'' emotionally stressed.
14	** Colonel Aureliano Buendia marries Remedios, ''[[WifeHusbandry who is a little girl.]]'' Sure, she's WiseBeyondHerYears, but that doesn't change the fact that [[OldManMarryingAChild she was a child when she married the much older Colonel.]]
15	** Aureliano [[spoiler:Babilonia]] and Amaranta passionately [[MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces make love in whichever room they can find]] [[FanDisservice ...all while ants slowly destroy their house, causing their lives to be endangered at one point in their lovemaking.]]
16	** The ants come into play again when it's revealed [[spoiler:that the last Aureliano [[DeathByAThousandCuts died from]] [[EatenAlive being devoured]] by them.]]
17	* ValuesDissonance:
18	** Among other things, such as Colonel Aureliano Buendia marrying the literal child that is Remedios, the Romani characters are referred to exclusively as gypsies, which is nowadays considered an outright slur.
19	*** The spanish word "Gitano", is a case of this in [[RealLife Real Life]]. While sharing the same roots than the word "Gypsy", it doesn't share its negative connotations and is used by Spanish speaking Romani to refer to themselves.
20	** Pilar Ternera seducing (and getting pregnant by) a teenaged José Arcadio.

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