[drycleden]

I have recently read the book 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and in a strange way, I see it as a representation of the life of an average human being (the early part of the book, the village (I can't remember what it's called) could be compared to a small child because the village is small (like a child), and the everyday inventions and objects the gypsies bring with them are new to the villagers (again like a small child to the outside world)\ in in the early-mid part of the book, the village has grown and has a larger population (which could be compared to adolescance, and the small child growing up physically into an adult), and it gets involved in a civil war by sending men to fight against the government's regime (which could represent the conflict that an adolescant would have with parents)\the mid-end part of the book and the village is at it's largest (which could represent reaching physical maturity for an adult) and trades and workers and connections (which could represent the village being an adult going to work and such)\ the end of the book, the village is slowly 'dying' in a sense in that the village has stopped getting bigger and is now shrinking (like a human getting weaker from age) before being unable to sustain itself any longer (which could be interpreted as the 'death' of the village/human). So, for anyone who has read the book, do you see any hidden thing like this in it, or am I just over thinking it?