Okay, so one of the books I am reading for my final project is this book The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset. An essay on the beginnings of the "mass-man" and his/ the mass' rise to power, Ortega y Gasset also discusses the progression of civilizations. One part that reminded me of One Hundred Years of Solitude: "...I believe that all life, and consequently the life of history, is made up of simple moments, each of them relatively undermined in respect to the previous one, so that in it reality hesitates, walks up and down, and is uncertain whether to decide for one or other of various possibilities."
Marquez's One Hundred Years is in fact, just this. A compilation of moments in no linear order, many of the moments told in Marquez's story would be considered more common, but it is times when Colonel Aureliano Buendia plays checkers with Moscote that eventually lead him to start a war against the Conservatives. In essence, it is what we could consider the littler, more every day moments in One Hundred Years that truly make the big impact.
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