Solitude, whether it be perceived or real, individual or collective, physical or emotional, condemns a race to self-destruction. Time, repetition, magical realism, historical parallel, humor, and fate are all elements that contribute to the effects of e family saga mirrored through the Buendia family. The Buendia family’s predisposition towards self-destruction and solitude is highlighted by the cycles of self-inflicted destruction and destitute in the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. One Hundred Years of …showed first 75 words of 1986 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1986 total…life aren’t history, they are reality. To him he minus-well be tied up to a tree because he is alien to anything real in the world. In One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel Marquez Garcia introduces a cycle, inflicted upon themselves, of destruction and destitute, as a result of the Buendias family failure to predetermined fate. “...races condemned to 100 yeras of solitude did t have a second chance on earth.” (Garcia, 448) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** vhvhhhhjhbjkhol