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Death in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'The House of the Spirits' Attitudes toward death tend to differ between cultures. The Latin American novels 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'The House of the Spirits' show us an attitude toward mortality that stems from many of the attitudes towards life itself. Death in the novels serves as a commentary on life, society, the characters and their spirituality. Each death and the way in which it is received, mourned and celebrated by the other characters is unique but each as significant as the life that preceded it. Consciousness transcends death and is inborn in the next generations ensuring that physical death is not the end. In other cases however a person 'dies' in a spiritual or emotional sense well before their actual physical mortality. The deaths are not incidental, rather the timing and manner of each is crafted and developed by...

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