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.