He uses precise descriptions of how they feel after witnessing the atrocities they have committed. He's able to get inside his character's head and really bring out the confusion he experiences on a daily basis. Colonel and José Arcadio Segundo live an experience that people are still trying to understand today. The fact that people still don't know how to deal with post-traumatic stress makes it even more amazing how García Márquez was able to write about it so profoundly when he did. He writes in a way that makes the reader feel a little of what people like José Arcadio Segundo and Colonel Aureliano Buendía experience on a daily basis since the horrors they witnessed. José Arcadio Segundo with the massacre of the banana company and the colonel with the many years of war in which he participated. Both suffered greatly and what they had to experience changed the way they functioned as people for the rest of their lives. Trauma is a life-changing experience, and it's something that García Márquez describes well in One Hundred Years of