much the same, and Marquez brings out the fact that the underlying social and political structure is fraught with repetitions of themes and patterns from one generation to the next. In this sense, nothing ever changes in Macondo. On quite a different)n level, however, this town changes much more than most because of the supernatural happenings and the fantastic events that make up its history. The author brings to the work a certain sardonic attitude apparent in the way he describes the plague or the five years of rain. Characters see the future, they die and come back because they are bored, they give birth to deformed children, and so on. These fantastic events are commonplace in this novel, and Marquez uses them as a means of exaggeration of themes and ideas in the interaction of the people in times of particular crisis or in the face of challenges such as no one else truly faces.
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