FAITH

Ashley Nealon and Liz Otto


 * Postive //Words//:**

//Happiness//-belief that something good will come //Hope//- hoping for the best //Strength//-to have faith that someone can get through a negative time //Love//-having faith in loving and accepting other people //Belief//-having something to believe in //Optimism//-faith can be believing in something good and positive //Peace//-puts people at ease


 * Negative Words:**

//Doubt//-having faith in something bad happening //Let-down//-having faith something in something that doesn't go how you hoped //Naive//-believing in something too good to be true //Gullable//-" " //Hurt//-having a negative outcome could hurt somebody //Deceit-//being tricked into hoping for something //Laziness-//if one thinks that something will just happen and does not work for it

The first word I chose to write about was the word 'peace'. I beleive we see a feeling of peace in the book many times, but one incident that sticks out in my mind that demonstrates a feeing of peace among Mocando is the death of José Arcadio Buendía. On page 140 is states 'through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling'. the phrase 'light' and the fact that they were flowers give a sense of calm and tranquility. As you could imagine looking out your window after sometime awful happened, and seeing millions of small flowers falling from the sky, would probably make you feel better. I beleive this is a sign after the death that everything will be okay, and that Jose Arcadio Beundia was at peace.The second word I chose was 'naive'. In the book, page 135 Col. Gerineldo Marquez and Col. Aureliano Buendia are having a conversation about why they are fighting the war. Col. AB asks Col. GM why he is fighting the war, in which GM answers 'For the great Liberal party', Col. AB responds 'You're lucky you know why, as far as I'm concerned I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride.' Col. AB began fighting the war because he was naive enough to be convinced that there was a reason for the war. He started out with full faith in the Liberal Party, and was influenced and persuaded by it's members that it was something worth fighting for. It was not until just then in the book that he realizes in actuality that the war is pointless and there is no need for it.