In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez used the motif of biblical references in order to outline the main theme of solitude in the novel. ... In the beginning, he had founded Macondo and was its leader, a very good leader that wanted the best for his village, "Jose Arcadio Buendia, who was the most enterprising man ever to be seen in the village, had set up the placement of the houses in such a way that from all of them one could reach the river and draw water with the same effort, and he had like up the streets with suck good sense that no house hot more sun ." .....

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