Religious Relations
Macondo's first priest who attempted to prove the existence of God by drinking a cup of hot chocolate and levitating.
Who is Father Nicanor Reyna?
The result of the act referred to in the book as "the original sin".
A "tail in the shape of a corkscrew and with a small tuft of hair on the tip" (pg. 16)
When the Buendía patriarch, José Arcadio, dies these objects rain down from the sky.
What are yellow flowers?
A result or privilege of the current pandemic that many people in the world and the people of Macondo are not fortunate enough to practice in full.
What are social isolation/distancing measures?
The people of Macondo to dug into their meager savings of gold pieces just for a chance to see the town using this seemingly magic item.
What is the flying carpet brought to the village by gypsies?
Aureliano Segundo's wife, Fernanda, is a strict and devout follower of this denomination of Christianity.
What is Catholicism?
The Spanish Flu of 1918 had a deadly second wave which is why lifting the current quarantine could be disastrous; in the book, this event (contradictory to the second wave of the Spanish Flu) was strictly a one-time incident.
What is the insomnia plague cured by Melquíades?
In the modern world, this item is common in everyday life however it is mystifyingly perplexing to José Arcadio Buendía.
What is ice?
Possible answers also include magnets, daguerreotype, and magnifying glasses.
Differing from our current social restrictions as a result of COVID-19, in the novel, this measure did this to stop the spread of insomnia.
What is the act of convincing travelers and outsiders from eating and drinking in Macondo?
This character is seemingly resurrected and cures the insomnia plague with a magic potion.
Who is Melquíades?
In the novel, Úrsula believes that this character is destined to become the Pope and send him to Rome only to find out he never even attended seminary.
Who is the firstborn child of Fernanda del Carpio and Aureliano Segundo: José Arcadio II?
In the narrative, this character believed that "time was going in a circle" (pg. 111)
Who is Úrsula Iguarán ?
The marks that stayed on Colonel Aureliano Buendía's seventeen sons until their respective deaths.
What are the cross of ashes?
Today, people commonly refer to the anonymous "guy who ate a bat" as 'Patient Zero' for the covid-19 pandemic; in the novel, this character could be considered 'Patient Zero' for the insomnia plague that overtook Macondo.
Who is the orphan Rebeca?
Using magnetized ingots from the gypsy Melquíades, this character found this artifact completely intact.
What is José Arcadio Buendía unearthing a complete suite of fifteenth-century armor with a locket of women's hair inside it?
This location, discovered in 1492, in the Dominican Republic that is commonly regarded as the birthplace of Christianity in Latin America.
What is the city, Santo Domingo?
Throughout the novel, this event is repeatedly connected to the execution of Colonel Aureliano Buendía although it chronologically happens far in the past.
HINT: it has to do with the notion of solitude and that Macondo is so cut off from the modern world objects as simple as this is seen as bewildering.
What is the discovery of ice?
In the novel, this character prophesied the complete history of Macondo that were indecipherable hitherto the character's death.
Who is the gypsy Melquíades?
Just as COVID-19 patients experience seemingly harmless symptoms such as headaches and loss of taste and smell that lead to serious respiratory failure, the people of Macondo experienced these similar symptoms during the insomnia plague.
What is the inability to sleep and dream eventually leading to the loss of: memory; sense of reality; and compassion?
In the novel, this character has seemingly endless knowledge, much more than he could have gained from just reading the family's books.
Who is Aureliano II?
Upon replacing Father Nicanor, this character can be seen as the reason for the burlesquing and mocking of organized religion
Who is Father Coronel otherwise known as The Pup?
These two characters both have separate ideas that would bring "civilization" to Macondo using a railroad and a canal respectively.
Who is Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Buendía?
In the novel, this event is the apparent result of Amaranta's prayers for something to stop her from killing Rebeca.
What is the death of Remedios Moscote?
The current pandemic has devastated the global economy, impacting the financial stability of people around the globe. In the novel, this event devastated the financial stability that the banana trees provided.
What are the four years of rain?
This character thought to be sticking pins into a picture of a betrothed in an effort of resurrection but accidentally caused a tumor in their own body.
Who is Fernanda Del Carpio?