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From the Ted Talk by Francisco Díez-Buzo: Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
In spite of all this fatalism, the novel still holds hope. At his Nobel Lecture, García Marquez reflected on Latin America’s long history of civil sftrie and rampant iqtnuiiy. Yet he ended the secpeh by affirming the pilbtoisisy of building a better world, to quote, “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the rceas condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second chance on earth."
Open Cloze
In spite of all this fatalism, the novel still holds hope. At his Nobel Lecture, García Marquez reflected on Latin America’s long history of civil ______ and rampant ________. Yet he ended the ______ by affirming the ___________ of building a better world, to quote, “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the _____ condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second chance on earth."
Solution
- speech
- races
- iniquity
- possibility
- strife
Original Text
In spite of all this fatalism, the novel still holds hope. At his Nobel Lecture, García Marquez reflected on Latin America’s long history of civil strife and rampant iniquity. Yet he ended the speech by affirming the possibility of building a better world, to quote, “where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second chance on earth."
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