Thursday, January 8, 2009
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.
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Interesting theory, Corey. I'm not sure if the text supports it or not. My hunch (perhaps, just as "out there" as yours) is that this search for Ursula's gold at the end of the novel is somehow related to the gold, which also belonged to Ursula, that José Arcadio Buendía boiled down into a caramel-like substance at the beginning of the novel, and José Arcadio said that it looked like excrement. I don´t know what makes me think that. Maybe it´s just the trend that we see with other elements from earlier in the novel, but I´ll certainly be watching for it the next time I read this one.
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