Both Uses of
commotion
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- At the start of another winter, however, a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.†
Chpt 11 *commotion = noisy disturbance
- A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
a disturbance -- typically noisy