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Arakawa realized the burgeoning youth of the early 2000s wasnt interested in another plucky spry optimistic young shonen protag. Instead she gave us a short ugly egotistical asshole smarter-than-you atheist with so much money and power that people could no longer best him in arguments by telling him “dude shut up ur literally like 12″ 

Five pages in we’re told Edward’s famous and rich and powerful. Five more pages and he’s calling some girl stupid for thinking God exists. Five more pages and he’s proven right. Five more and he’s kicked an evil priest’s teeth in. And no one can tell his mom on him.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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One hundred Years of Solituude.

The novel's conclusion, as Aureliano Babilonia deciphers the last of Melquíades' parchments to discover that they are a prophesy of the Buendía family, speaks to the thematic conclusion that Latin American history has largely been written by outsiders. Or, more accurately, the ideologies that shaped and contained Latin American thought throughout the period of western colonialism were those spoken by outsiders. This is seen in the isolation of the town of Macondo and the cyclical, annual return of Melquíades' people-- how they bring modern inventions to the area, and how they force modernity onto a utopic town.

A more elemental analogy outside of the novel is language itself. Latin America speaks many languages, but the languages that have dominated the region and shaped modern culture the most have been those of conquering, colonial outsiders-- Spanish and Portuguese, namely.

If you buy into linguistic relativity, the idea that language shapes thought, then the imposition of European languages in South America during colonialism can only be seen as a tool of cultural suppression. Personally, the implications of this idea are troubling in relation to my experience reading literature in translation, but that might be too big an idea for a pre-work tumblr post.

The act of prophesy isn't only the expression of an ability to see the future; it's an attempt at shaping the future by means of containing thought about what is possible. While One Hundred Years of Solitude functions as speculative fiction and therefore isn't contained by the laws of realism, its implications about language, prophesy, and fate can be mapped onto the real world in troubling and painfully real ways.

If you made it this far, thank you for justifying an MFA that I don't use and now just collects dust on my bookshelf-- forgive me if this was an elaborate Pepe Silvia moment. Read One Hundred Years of Solitude - it's good.

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