Linear Progression

... Time in One Hundred Years of Solitude is a complex interaction of linear and circulatory development. In the first place, we see that there is a strong sense of a linear development to the history of the town of Macondo. We follow the story from its founding, through various stages up to a moderznizing town, to its decline and eventually we witness the town's complete physical and psychological extermination. In general, the linear history of the town falls into four sections: (a) utopian innocence and social harmony, in which Macondo exists like an early Eden, its inhabitants so innocent that no one has yet died and they don't even have names for things, the world "was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point" . This section takes up the first five chapters of the book. The story then moves on

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