Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is sad story of the loves, tragedies, and everyday lives of the Buendía family. Throughout the generations, there are many themes, character types, and events that are always present and repeating. It is their fate to be stuck in a never-ending cycle. José Arcadio Buendía represents Adam in a biblical sense in "One Hundred Years of Solitude". He is the founder and …showed first 75 words of 1409 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1409 total…doesn't move forward or backwards. Instead, everything is just a repeat of what has happened before. People aren't developing, but just moving in circles. The Buendía's can do nothing to break the cycle they are trapped in. Even the title of the book represents the cycle. The book is titled One Hundred Years of Solitude, yet it happens over much more time symbolizing that it is the same one hundred years just repeating itself.