Memory

Memory comes up throughout One Hundred Years of Solitude.  The village nearly falls to insomnia, when people die they become memories, when Colonel Aureliano Buendia goes to sign the peace treaty he destroys all physical memory of himself.  An interesting note about the memory of Colonel Aureliano Buendia and his present self is the difference between the two.  He has returned a man beaten by war that appears to have very little emotion left and certainly does not care about his old hobbies such as crafting the gold fish.  When the village looses all memory, it falls into the hands of a deck of cards.  Memory is the way that we recall the past.  It is not necessarily accurate and therefore not always true.  I do not believe that heredity memory exits in reality although I am sure there are plenty of people who would argue the point.  In these ways, memory not only what makes us intelligent, able to speak, read, and write, but also human.