... probably be fascinated by the opening sentence, "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." The narrator seems to know everything already and we are experiencing as if it were a story foretold. It will be many pages before his narrative circles back to ice, and many chapters before the hero of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, stands before the firing squad. Similar sentences can be found throughout the novel, implying that every character in the story is predestined to solitude and death. Although one is living "at present", it doesn't mean that he can choose what kind of life he is to live, for he has a foreordained future. It doesn't mean he can forget about the past neither, for the past is skill haunting him. The ...

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