Outside Reading - Week 3, Post A

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The cultural element I noticed in reading this week was the sense of community that everyone in the village had with each other. When Jose Arcadio Buendia decided that it was time to move the village to a better spot in terms of communication with the outside world, everybody believed his reasons and followed him over the mountains in search of the ocean. They named their new village together, and worked together throughout the move. "At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger one on the main street that said GOD EXISTS" (47). In our culture, a family doesn't even move together, different members are split up all across the country, let alone friends moving cross state together.