Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Last Son
Watching the last of the Colonel's sons get shot on the door step to his own house was again a disappointment. The way that the story has turned, it made sense but I was never the less hoping that something was going to come of him. I was also rather disappointed when the four boys came back and stole the money. I thought that even though he had no need for it, it would have been nicer if Aureliano was the one to find it.
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This is an interesting and under-commented moment in the novel. I think that I put in the same category as the flight of Amaranta Ursula´s canaries and the departure of the Arabs. The days of regeneration are over, the last of the golden fishes (melted down and forged a billion times)are being spent etc. This death, and the fact that they don´t let him into the house, somehow signify the end of the mythic House of Buendía. Also, keep in mind the he is name Aureliano Amador (Lover). Can we make any connections vía his name?
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