One Hundred Years of Solitude: end

Today’s class discussion really made me think more deeply about One Hundred Years of Solitude, and in fact, as I was leaving class, I couldn’t help but thinking that there is still so much more to discuss regarding this book.
The ending of this book is profound and groundbreaking. The fact that the Buendia family comes full-circle at the end of the book is something that I was not expecting. I still believe that this story is suppose to mirror the fact that the characters within the story exist only if the author, Garcia Marques, exists. In a way, these characters are all trapped in his mind and in his ideas, and therefore, he has complete control over them.
This book can easily parallel the Bible with the epic story lines, and the idea that human beings are all pre-destined to follow the path that God has chosen for them. And in this way, Garcia Marquez might be mocking religion and even the very existence of God.
During class today, it was my belief that Garcia Marquez’s point was that people need to look back into their history in order to improve the future. However, after thinking about it a little bit more, I now think that his main point was to show that an author is the God of a story and its characters in the same way that humans are “the creation” of God; whether that means that he is mocking the idea of a God, or just making a comparison.