![]() ![]() The town where his grandparents lived, Aracateca, served as a model for Macondo in fact, “Macondo” was the name of a nearby banana plantation. ![]() His grandfather, a veteran of the civil wars that had shaken Colombia over the years, gave García Márquez a foundation for the many wars fought by Colonel Aureliano Buendía. His grandmother was a storyteller whose superstitions, legends, and realistic tone provided him with much source material. ![]() Gabriel García Márquez said that everything he wrote is drawn from the first eight years of his life, a period when he lived with his maternal grandparents. In Lesson 3, students turn to an informational text, García Márquez’s 1982 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, “The Solitude of Latin America.” They pay witness to the author’s observations on how the lines between the fantastic and realistic intersect in the culture and history of Latin America so vividly depicted in this novel. They trace how García Márquez used actual events and people from his own life and factual incidents from Colombian history to create his epic. In Lesson 2, students ascertain the realistic elements in this author’s style. In Lesson 1, students are introduced to the term “magical realism” and go on to investigate how García Márquez used magical and fantastical elements to enrich his story of the Buendía family and the history of Macondo. The fictional village of Macondo is modeled on García Márquez's hometown, Aracataca, Columbia. García Márquez actually recapitulates episodes in the history of Latin America through the story of real and fantastical events experienced over the course of one century by the Buendía family. Through these lessons they will discover how Gabriel García Márquez meshes magical elements with a reality which is, in his view, fantastical in its own right. This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore magical realism in the hands of one of the world’s most gifted authors. ![]()
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