This book begins with an isolated town of Macondo and the Buendias family. Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iquaran are cousins that got marry and had the town first born child. Ursula mother warns her many times about incest and it consequences. She warns them that. their child will be born with pig tails. Ursula with gratitude was thankful for her normal born child The town of Macondo begins to come in contact with other regions of the town. The Gypsy and Macondo occasionally come in contact and to town gradually lose its solitude. Macondo become modernize with electricity and technology. Civil wars begin causing violence and death in the solitary town of Macondo. Century goes by and the Buendias family wealth expanded, births increases, death inclined, and also love affairs within the family. Ursula Iguaran warns the family about ancestry of the pig tails curse that her mother had told her. However, the Buendias family continues to marry their own family tree. With the Buendias greater wealth comes along greater social problems. Imperialist capitalism took over Macondo banana plantation and exploits workers. The banana workers go on strike and was killed by the army and dumped into the sea. Five years of continuous rain flooded Macondo into a beaten down city. Once again, the village is isolated and the Buendia family has destructed themselves into solitude.
             The town started off with isolation and solitude. They only come into contact with the Gypsy once in a while for technology trade. The author used the railroad to symbolize the beginning of expansion in the world of Macondo. The Buendia family also expands along with the town as well. They repeat the family name throughout their generation. With repetition of names comes repetition of personalities of characters. Their names and personality traits passed down from generation to another. This was a foreshadow that Mancodo will end with what they had start with. As the town po...