SPAN 312

  I've spent the weekend thinking about what I want to write about for this week, and I think the idea I keep going back to is the idea of isolation/loneliness I wrote about for part one. This second half of the book is similar to the first in that each character follows some kind of path to solitude, however in this half we see how that brings each character to their death. In true fashion, this book ends with the death of each character and sometimes in gruesome ways. By the end of the novel the town of Macondo has returned to its lonely and abandoned state, and Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano are the main remaining characters. However the words and fears of characters who came before them and since died, continue to haunt the remaining Buendías family. In particular, Ursula's biggest fear, which she refers to throughout the book, comes true, a child is born with the tail of a pig. Although disturbing, the ending almost felt fitting, I mean this in the sense that the demise of ...