100 Years of Solitude

I absolutely loved the ending to 100 Years of Solitude.  The novel itself is so dense, meaning there were many ways in which Marquez could have ended it.  Thus, I love how the ending was nearly impossible to predict because of many ways in which the ending could have gone.  However, I feel that the ending that Marquez chose truly ties together the whole novel.  The whole novel seemed like a circle in which time, events, and characters kept repeating.  The ending is supposed to be the end to this circle and these repetitions.  Near the end of chapter 20, I thought that with Aureliano (the baby) born the cycles and repetitions would continue.  However, as I continued raeading, I was shocked and surprised to find that Aureliano (the baby) was eaten by ants.  But when I soon realized that the manuscripts were actually the history of the Buendia family, it became so much clearer and I liked how Aureliano, the one who was translating the manuscripts, was the last Buendia alive and the one who finally was able to translate the manuscripts.  Not until writing this blog post and actually looking back on the ending did I have a second thought about the fact that Macondo was taken away by the winds.  The idea that Macondo flew away was an absolutely perfect ending which, because of all the bazar things that have happened in this novel, fits in perfectly.