The Narrator of One Hundred Years of Solitude Essay -- One Hundred Yea

The Narrator of i Hundred age of Solitude     Who is this vote counter of One Hundred Years of Solitude? He or she knows the whole history of the Buendias better than whatever of them know it. But the narrator is not quite omniscient. For example, the opening conviction (quoted earlier) and Pilars insight into the axle of time are two of the very few places where the narrator claims to be able to read a characters thoughts. Gener every(prenominal)y, we get to know characters from near(a) observation of what they say and do, and we have to infer what they may be thinking. The narrators noesis also fails us in the wholeness great unresolved brain-teaser Jose Arcadio, elder son of the founder, is murdered in his bed, but no one ever knows by whom. The narrator is also ignorant of who guns down all of the colonels illegitimate sons and, in fact, seems as surprised as we are when the conclusion survivor from among these sons appears in Macondo and is also shot dow n.   There are two likely candidates for narrator. One is Melquiades, the gypsy magician and wise man...