Part one of term paper
"…Races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." These powerful last words of the novel ring true. The book demonstrates through many examples that human beings cannot exist in isolation. People must be interdependent in order for the race to survive. Solitude. Examples are found of this idea ...

Part two of term paper
... novel begins with geographic isolation. Jose Arcadio Buendia shouts, "God damn it! Macondo is surrounded by water on all sides!" Whether it is, in truth, an island is irrelevant. The town believed itself to be cut off from the rest of the world. In addition, Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula are looking for solitude. The founding of Macondo was a result of escaping Jose Arcadio Buendia's murder of Prudencio Aguilar. Aguilar's ghost haunted them, eventually forcing them to retreat. The fam ...