the word killer

Yeah, totally hate this character too. she's gotta get her life together.

On an actual analytical level I appreciate the way the author reverted back to primal emotions to engage the reader.
In my opinion this had two effects on the writing, and both of them are conflicting. The first brought the love to a new level, validating it while at the same time it lowered the love making it worthless.
I know this sounds funny and is not exactly comprehensible, however I shall try to explain. First, to explain its validity, this love is not a logical thought out plan such as arranged marriages. In this sense they love each other truly and in the purest sense of the word (It's not anything convenient).

Inversely, this love can be viewed as pure infatuation. Essentially these are two kids enticed by the new and intriguing; both are delving into the unknown and loving it. He had never had anything concrete before and she had never had anything so feral. It is an elevated schoolgirl crush on the guy with a motorcycle.

All of this is very interesting considering the confusion the author is purposely imposing on the reader.

macondo had to go

i touched on it before but i shall elaborate here. Macondo is a great town, its magical and was referred to as a sort of paradise with jose arcadio buendia being the divine figure head so to speak. We have also talked about how since the beginning there was a subtle but steady downfall. I talked about saddam and gamorrah before. Biblically speaking, Saddam and Gamorrah had reached such a point in its corruption and godlessness that the only option left was a total apocalyptic, divine destruction. I feel that Macondo by the end of the novel reached such a point of total corruption with zoological brothels and banana company massacres that the only option left was a total destruction. The ending hurricane can only describe what i am referring too. This is a common literary technique. having everyhign tin the storm like their eyes were watching god and romeo and juliet. But i feel this is a refference to biblical cities being created and destroyed. There is countless more to talk about ut i'll leave you with that. chew on it

the gold

I have a really quick point that I made in class. Throughout the novel Ursula has been like a guardian of the gold left at the house. Even after she dies the gold is guarded beneath her bed. The person who left the gold always said that when the rain stops. Nobody came and it can be assumed that the person who brought the gold is dead and gone at this point. My theory is that one of the kids that spent time with Jose Arcadio was a descendant of said person. This is because just like in the buendia family, characters repeat i think a kid could very well embody the man who lef tthe gold there to begin. Also the gold showed itself to the kids when before it was hidden from everybody, even when they stopped at nothing to find it.

Fernanda

Wow, i realize this isn't the most profound comment but i just totally hate Fernanda. I hate her and everything she stands for.she came over with the government, which was totally against the buendias the whole time and she ruined everything. Meme was rthe only one with any hope of getting away from solitude and Fernanda paralyzed her boyfriend and sent her to the nunnery where she never talked again. Like really? who does that. And then what she did to the kid. Sorry this isn't so much a literary analysis as much just a rant but i figured its alright. The intellectual part would be that Fernanda represents the government and the only way the government was able to destroy the buendia family was to infiltrate it. those bastards. This is basically a representation of them all being suppressed just like Fernanda suppressed the family with order and strictness. I really hate her.

the naming of things?

Ok really really quick thought that came to me.
I'm sure we all thought of this so i am not claiming anyhting brilliant, but about the names. It is an interesting concept that certain people with certain traits had names of people with similar traits. But i thought about it and people didn't just have these names... that would be a coincidence and i just don't believe it. I believe that the names that these characters were given actually gave them the traits we see.
We see this with a whole bunch of characters. Marquez kind of alludes to this with arcadio segundo and aureliano segundo.
But what really got me and is got me to write this is is remedios the beauty. It would be so totally bizarre if it was a coincidence that they named her "the beauty" and she just happened to be the most beautiful girl in the entire world. i feel like the fact that Ursula named her remedios the beauty she made her to be the totally most beautiful and stuff.
and then she totally blew away

Yeah i got more to say, whatever
So this post is about time...again. anyway, To me in this novel time is totally not conventional. what i mean is rather than passing at a uniform speed for everybody like time in the real world. it seems to pass at different speeds for different characters. This is hinted at originally with the way two generations happened to span like 300 years. The other thing i see is that characters seem to age at different speeds. Ursula has got to be well over 100 now and she is still the head of the household. Jose Arcadio Buendia never seemed to age too much except in those years he seemed to age incredibly rapidly.
Melquiades ages differently than everybody by growing old then young again, then dying, then coming back again, then aging really rapidly in the end.
My personal favorite is Colonel Aureliano Buendia. He was born an adult already. Then time went by. Then he joined the war and it talked about how much he aged and became detached and how it was really fast. So he was already old, then he got much older faster. Basically i feel time was accelerated for him.

I don’t know if you have read this far, we probably haven’t gotten here yet but I will blog about it regardless and you respond in a couple days. My thought is about cards. Cards come up in the book a lot. First we see them with Pilar Ternera. She uses cards to see the futures of characters. The cards hold the future of the characters so to speak. They cannot deny the cards or go against them. When Aureliano Segundo and Arcadio Segundo were born they were interchangeable. Ursula was convinced that they got mixed up in their childhood like a deck of cards being shuffled. The traits of these characters were decided by a deck of cards. The entire concept makes it seem like lives are all predestined according to how the deck is dealt. Hmmmm….. Interesting.