Religion in Gabriel Garcis Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

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In "One Hundred Years of Solitude", one largely recognizable theme that Gabriel García Márquez presents is the role of religion. García Márquez repeatedly ridicules the extreme value Latin American culture has placed in organized religion. He also depicts the negative effects the outside religion, and technology, had on Latin American traditional culture. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the character Fernanda del Carpio …

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…amp;amp;iacute;a household. The extensiveness to which religion impacts Latin American culture cannot be fully described in a single text. One Hundred Years of Solitude, in all of its greatness, can only exhibit a small part in the entire complex history of Latin America. Gabriel García Márquez makes use of this book to communicate the negative effects he sees of organized religion in his culture.