Themes
Florentino
Fermina
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Random Chapter 2
100

How is the theme of old age shown in Chapter 1?

What is the suicide of Jeremiah because he refuses to grow old, Dr. Urbino denying his own age with the daily tasks he does?

100
Florentino plays this instrument.
What is the violin?
100
Fermina's Last name.
What is Daza?
100
The theme of literature am I most known for.
What is Magic Realism?
100
The name of Fermina's Aunt
What is Aunt Escolastica?
200

Give an example of how love is similar to a plague in the book.

What is Florentino suffering from lovesickness as one does with a plague, or Florentino being so ill with worry that when his mother calls the doctor they mistake it for cholera, or raising the cholera flag at the end of the book?

200
Florentino writes Fermina a 60-70 page "dictionary of compliments" but instead gives her a letter of this length.
What is 1/2 a page?
200
Fermina's Father
Who is Lorenzo?
200
Other than Love in the Time of Cholera, my best known novel is probably this.
What is One Hundred Years of Solitude?
200
Fermina gets expelled from school for this reason.
What is being caught writing a love letter during class and refusing to reveal the identity of its recipient?
300

How are social norms represented as being different from personal fulfillment in the novel?

What is despite what society says, the main goals of the upper class (being wealthy and having a stable marriage) do not guarantee happiness? The contentment that Fermina displays to the outside world does not equal that which she feels inside her house where she is considered a slave to her husband?

300
It been this long since the love affair ended between Florentino and Fermina.
What is 51 years 9 months 4 days?
300
Fermina says this to Florentino after they are reunited following her journey.
What is Forget it?
300
In this country I was born.
What is Colombia?
300
It takes this amount of time for Florentino to propose to Fermina.
What is 2 years?
400

What are some examples of moral corruption or moral values in the novel? 

What is the nuns expell Fermina from school for writing love letter, but later organize her marriage with Dr. Urbino; Lorenzo Daza was not an honest trader but a man who took part in illegal schemes to profit; ship captain abandons a man on shore for killing a manatee?

400
Florentino hires Euclides to search for this.
What is Sunken Treasure?
400
In response to sending away her Aunt, Fermina does this.
What is Lock herself in her room and refuse to eat or drink?
400
I first published my novel Love in the Time of Cholera in this year.
What is 1985?
400
In addtion to playing the violin, Florentino learned this from Thugut
What is Morse code?
500

What is Magical Realism and how is it shown in the novel?

What is a genre that depicts the real world as having an undercurrent of magic or fantasy; in this novel the narrator adopts a neutral tone toward immoral or horrific events; complex moral issues are met with indifference or detachment?

500
How does Florentino track Fermina's movements when her father takes her away? (be specific)
He looks at the itinerary sent via telegraph to Lorenzo's brother.
500
This condition Fermina gives Florentino if they are to be married.
What is she will never have to eat eggplant?
500
1982
What is the year I won the Nobel Peace Prize?
500
The name of the waltz Florentino wrote for Fermina.
What is the Crowned Goddess?
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