All 8 Uses of
enigma
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The new place seemed to please Melquiades, because he was never seen any more, not even in the dining room, He only went to Aureliano's workshop, where he would spend hours on end scribbling his enigmatic literature on the parchments that he had brought with him and that seemed to have been made out of some dry material that crumpled like puff paste.†
Chpt 4
- Rebeca was so preoccupied with the enigma that she told it to Jose Arcadio Buendia, and he scolded her for believing in the predictions of the cards, but he undertook the silent task of searching closets and trunks, moving furniture and turning over beds and floorboards looking for the bag of bones.†
Chpt 4
- Aureliano, who was the man of the house, confused her further with his enigmatic and final opinion: "These are not times to go around thinking about weddings."†
Chpt 5
- Don't worry, dear friend," General Moncada said enigmatically.†
Chpt 8
- To a neighbor woman who brought her a set of candles so that she could light up the picture of her lost lover with them, she said with an enigmatic security: "The only candle that will make him come is always lighted."†
Chpt 11
- "Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically.†
Chpt 12
- that answer planted an enigma in Fernanda's heart that she was never able to clarify.
Chpt 13 *enigma = unexplainable mystery
- Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(enigma) something mysterious that seems unexplainable