TIME


 * **Positive** || **Negative** ||
 * - Growth || - Aging ||
 * - Memories/Nostalgia || - Can feel fast or slow ||
 * - Schedule || - Waiting ||
 * - Routine || - Never know how much you have ||
 * - Maturing || - Forget the past ||
 * - Promotes Healing || - Decaying ||
 * - Brings change || - Can make you go crazy ||
 * - Never-ending || - Never-ending ||

POSITIVE: ROUTINE One of the most positive aspects attributed to the word "Time" is the idea of a routine or a schedule. It is human nature to desire this constant. Without this consistancy, everything would be chaos. This concept is depicted through One Hundred Years of Solitude in Chapter 13 when Marquez describes the way Ursula's life has been transformed due to her blindness. When Ursula loses her sight, she learns to rely on "her four senses so that they never took her by surprise (247)." Along with smell, sound, taste, and touch, Ursula becomes highly dependent on time, or, more specifically, routine. On page 247, it also states, "after some time she discovered that every member of the family, without realizing it, repeated the same path every day, the same actions, and almost repeated the same words at the same hour." This may seem like a negative aspect of Time, because it may be too methodical. However, within One Hundred Years, it is clearly illustrated as positive. The page goes on, "Only when they deviated from meticulous routine did they run the risk of losing something." With the knowledge that the "search for lost things is hindered by routine habits," Ursula knows just where to find Fernanda's wedding ring when she loses it. She also uses routine to keep up with the house and remain, even in her blindness, the head of the house. Routine is only one of the many positive concepts attributed to the passing of time shown throughout the novel.

NEGATIVE: MADNESS Page 77: "What day is today?" Aureliano told him that it was Tuesday. "I was thinking the same thing," Jose Arcadio Buendia said, "but suddenly I realized that it’s still Monday, like yesterday. Look at the sky, look at the walls, look at the begonias. Today is Monday too." Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him. On the next day, Wednesday, Jose Arcadio Buendia went back to the workshop. "This is a disaster," he said. "Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too." The aspect of time is shown in a negative connotation here. Jose Arcadio Buendia realizes that everything is the same all the time. All of the flowers look the same, and everything seems to be happening at the same time. He is going crazy from all this, thinking it is Monday everyday. If everything is the same all the time, everything blends together and cannot be told apart one day from the next. This can make someone go crazy, just like Jose Arcadio Buendia.

Andrea G and Chelsey P