... Macondo the story line follows a continuous linear structure until it's destruction. The story follows it's foundation, development into a growing modern town and to it's eventual decline. Following this linear structure the town Macondo itself develops over time. Isolation and innocence is the initial existence of the town, where "the world was so recent that many things lack names." Implying that the town was initially like Eden. Macondo turns to military struggle leading to economic prosper and the eventual destruction from the hurricane. Gabriel Garcia Marquez however does not account for events in a linear time frame. He rather works back and forth through time evoking the atmosphere of history being recounted as a meandering story. The first sentence of the novel "Many years later, as he faces the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice", refers ...

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