One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez(fin)

Marquez's Solitude shows how solidarity can at times, not be best. The Buendia family came down in part, because of their desires. Choices were made that had consequences that revealed later were tragic. The Buendias were happy people(at times) and while warned (Jose Arcadia and Ursula), travel a path that went to a place of possible danger. In Solitude, was Marquez thinking that people who became colonialized became trap in a life predetermined if not by nature than by post colonialism? Was their fate predetermined before outside influence came in to play? While I'm not saying I approved of marring family members and having children by them, is there more a mythology of oneness here? Were we all related anyway and for us all to achieve oneness and for everyone to be true and caring for each other, that we must be one?

As for Frantz Fanon's views on anti-colonialism, there are things to think about. Change can be good, like our new president elect Barack Obama, but when change comes to third world countries where we think they are wrong about things and we tend to impose our will on them, to eventually ruin what was once a utopia to them and change it to something we think they should be. This is not what should be, but actually what we should be careful on. In Solitude, how outside influences helped Macondo turn a small community into a seemingly thriving society that eventually would resort back a bit to it's former self and then an end that was tragic tells you that the phrase: The grass is always greener on the other side, might just be a deeper truth. Was the moments the men(Col. Buendia, Aureliano Segundo and Aureliano) being in solitude, a realization of the outside world's influence and was this Marquez's way of telling the world to butt out of things that do not concern them? People always seemed to die after bringing something from outside Macondo. Maybe Aureliano figured it out too late, ignorance is bliss.