One hundred years of solitude
After finishing “Father Goriot”, I searched for a new book which was good enough to tempt me. Surfing net, asking my friends and family members, I found “100 years of solitude” which was written by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez who was awarded in 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. This novel published in 1967, and has been translated into 37 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Since my own book has more than 500 pages, I’m afraid of being passive, but it turned out be a genuinely fantastic work.
To me the Buendia family. Founder of the Macondo city and patriarch of the Buendia family is Jose Arcadio Buendia who became insane for science and alchemy, and who is actually really lonesome and pitiful person. Because no one understands him and after becoming psychotic, he had tied to an oak tree until his death. After that, his son colonel Aureliano Buendia was the luckiest human being in the world. Colonel’s premonition was always right and he even predicted his own father’s death. Another highlighting character is 7th generation’s Aureliano who was born with a pig’s tail. Unfortunately, the infant were devoured by ants.
Background. The story takes place from 19th to 20th century. Actually I don’t know much about Columbia’s history ,yet, the book describes it perfectly even though it is not accurately written. For instance, election between the Conservative and liberal parties grew into civil war caused amount of blood and suffering. After long battle hardships, in the end the Conservative party won. Furthermore, workers of banana plantation were massacred by the Columbian army which was sent by the government. They left no evidence and tossed the corpses into the sea \based on real incident\. The novel itself almost script of the Maconda city. From the town’s inception to renaissance then it’s perish.
Interesting events. The most mind-blowing act was undoubtedly gypsy Melquiades’ the Buendias’ prophesy which tells about downfall of the Maconda and even more. Certainly, I predicted that ending but not in that way. Other an extraordinary fact was three years’ rain and ten years’ drought which happened at the Maconda city. The sole reason of establishing the Maconda city was for it’s own catastrophe. And I have to admit that the time is a magic that repeats itself.
Conclusion. There is no way that this novel is most recognized in the whole world. To me, writing style has always same rhythm that continuous throughout the story. The deaths, the acts, the accidents and everything were right on the time which never runs fast or slow. However, there were some difficulties to me for reading. The family members always gave same names to their children -almost every characters have the same names. Also the time runs as liner progression but backs up each characters and events so it is causes little confusion. After reading this book my first thought was that the Buendias- expect for Aureliano Segundo, 6th generation’s Aurliano and Amaranta Ursula- did not love others they only care themselves and all of them have self-inflicted personality. Even though I have the book which is white, soft covered and small sized, I prefer to buy very first edition because the book is hard covered and nice illustrated cover.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, really, so, then, as for, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 13.1623246493 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 7.85571142285 0% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 10.4138276553 240% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 19.0 7.30460921844 260% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 44.0 24.0651302605 183% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 41.998997996 124% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2846.0 1615.20841683 176% => OK
No of words: 544.0 315.596192385 172% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23161764706 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.20363070211 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93687184994 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 327.0 176.041082164 186% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.601102941176 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 860.4 506.74238477 170% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 11.0 2.52805611222 435% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 2.10420841683 333% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 16.0721442886 199% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.6987139285 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.9375 106.682146367 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.875 7.06120827912 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.67935871743 150% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 3.4128256513 264% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0447621352256 0.244688304435 18% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00880240023914 0.084324248473 10% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0286577383806 0.0667982634062 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0266090632498 0.151304729494 18% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0246677616096 0.056905535591 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 13.0946893788 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 50.2224549098 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.3001002004 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 78.4519038076 192% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 11.2359550562 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 0.67 Out of 6
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