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...ely motivated from a novel by Kafka titled The Metamorphosis. Faulkner and Sophocles would become the biggest influences in the early years of the young author. His first really successful novel he wrote was One Hundred Years of Solitude. He won many awards and was critically acclaimed. He won the Novel Prize in Literature in 1982. He was also worked for the Columbian newspaper El Espectador as a foreign correspondent in many major cities. 2. The novel consists of acknowledgments, eleven chapters, and an epilogue. The plot took about seven to eight months. There were a lot of references to past events to help the reader better understand the characters. There was usually more than one event happening at any time. The author changed topics fairly frequently. The plot was about how the Extraditables, led by Pablo Escobar, held nine people hostage so they can get what they wanted, which was most protection for themselves by the government. The hostages and their families suffered throughout the time until Pablo Escobar finally released the hostages and turned himself in. What Pablo wanted the most was that the government guarantee that they would not extradite him or his followers to the United States, where they would face harsher sentences for their crimes. The government finally agreed to that condition and to other ones that he imposed and he finally turned himself and other important people involved with him in. The beginning of the story involved the kidnapping of the protagonist and her sister-in-law. It was very fast-paced and frantic. The ending involved a joyous moment for Maruja and Alberto, the main protagonists in this story. 3. This novel is written in the third person in the past tense. The author w...