MEANINGFUL PASSAGE JOURNAL

A meaningful passage in the book is when Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula experience love. They expericence love throughout chapters nineteen and twenty.

" Since the afternoon of their first love, Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula had continued taking advantage of her husband's rare unguarded moments, making love with gagged ardor in chance meetings and almost always interrupted by unexpected returns. But when they saw themselves alone in the house they succumbed to the delirium of lovers who were making up for lost time. It was mad passion, unhinging, which made Fernanda's bones tremble with horror in her grave and which kept them in a state of perpetual excitement...they lost their sense of reality, the notion of time, the rhythm of daily habits...and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love."

Nothing absolutely nothing could diminish the love they had for each other. Their house was falling apart, but they did not care. They were very poor and very hungry, but that just strengthened their love. The fact that Amaranta Ursula was married did not stop them, they just simply did their mischevious acts behind his back. Lastly, the fact that they knew they were related did not stop them from loving each other in that manner. This is a really meaningful passage because this is the first form of love within the family. I'm not saying it's the correct way to love a family member but it was the first form of love that ws present between two family members. I know that Amaranta really loved her brother Colonel Aureliano Buendia, but he didn't even care for her that much, he didn't even love her. In the case of Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula the love was returned by both parties. Going even further they had the first child that was created out of true love. The baby that they had was the last Buendia and he died the way Melquiades' had predicted. If the baby had not died I guess the Buendias would have kept on living, or Marquez would have had to create a different ending. Perhaps an alternate ending could have been naming the child what Amaranta Ursula had wanted, Rodrigo. So does that mean that true love had to occur to end the miserable solitude of the Buendias? And supposedly Macondo and the solitude of the Buendia's is supposed to be wiped out of memory when Aureliano finishes reading the parchment, is that literally true? If not, won't Aurelino be living in solitude again?