Chapters 18-20 Reflection

I liked these final chapters because they made the book full circle. Aureliano II is like the Aurelianos before him, isolated and reserved. The entire setting reflects on whats left of the Buendia family, the house is old and falling apart, and Macondo is deserted and poor. It is ironic that Jose Arcadio II comes home to inherit money but returns to a town in poverty and then meraciously finds Ursulas huge stash of gold. It was nice of him to share the gold but the people of Macondo are horrible.

I think it is kinda strange that Amaranta Ursula would choose her cousin over her husband. I think it is fitting that Aureliano III has a pigs tail because Ursula predicted that it would happen over a hundred years earlier and nobody listened. It is tragic that Amaranta Ursula died in child birth but it was her fault for not listening. Aureliano II is a very bad parent for allowing his son to be eaten by ants. But he is punished, the Buendia line is severed because of him and he destroys Macondo, ending the book.