Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude takes place in a Latin American setting. ... Petra Cotes, the young woman in the selection from One Hundred Years Of Solitude, intrudes in the narrative and distracts the Segundo twins from their normal daily activities in the isolated village of Macondo. ... This is quite similar to the overall narrative of One Hundred Years of Solitude which is being read out of Melquiades' history book by the last of the Buendia family. ... In One Hundred Years of Solitude Petra Cotes is unaware that she is being violated, whereas Juliana, in ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cooper's wife Susan bet Cooper that he could write a better book then the one she was reading. ... In a sense they are right and no one would recommend it to the general reader."... The gothic episodes clash with the historical ones. The Last of the Mohicans was one of his most acknowledged masterpieces. ... One of Coopers major criticizing peers was Mark Twain. ...

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• Grade Level: High School