Reflective Reading for Chpt. 18-20

Well well, we have finally finished Gabriel Marquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Though this is not a book to read for pleasure and it is not one of my favorites I would have to say that it is a good book and i recommend it to many. It is not a book of pleasure but of learning. I may not totally understand the entire moral of this novel, but I do have a gist of it. If we as a society isolate ourselves from the world we will surely die and do not have a chance at survival. We need to educate our self of the world so that when the time comes we will be ready. We will be ready to defend ourselves the right way and win. Also, to not repeat the same mistakes of our ancestors like so many of the Buendias have. If we do not learn from our past and history it is likely to repeat it self again. From the beginning the book the Buendia house was rich, full, strong and full of life. By the end of the book, however, the house is decomposing, everything broken, paint chipping away, so weak that even the ants and termites were taking over. I believe that this signifies that all societies are great in the beginning, but you need to care for it last. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a lesson that we all must learn if we want to survive.