As I had said in my first post "After reading this section, I think that a big theme is aging and death." This theme really kept up throughout the whole book. During most of the book Florentino, Fermina, Dr. Urbino and many others kept thinking about how much they had aged. They would compare their own aging with that of old lovers after meeting for the first time in a while. Death was what became of Dr. Urbino, Olimpia, América, Jeremiah, Florentino's mother. It is a big theme because people in the book had to deal with the deaths of people that they loved and with facing death in their old age.
Another major concept throughout the whole book is lying. Lying tends to cause trouble in peoples lives and especially when it is made public. Lying did cause trouble for Fermina when the local newspaper created gossip about a secret love affair between Dr. Urbino Daza, Fermina's son, and Lucretia. Lucretia retreated from the public after it was published and Fermina took that as a guilty move which caused emotional feelings for her. Florentino even feels that he should lie to Fermina about his virginity before he makes love to her.
All in all this book was confusing but good. The beginning was the most confusing because of the way it was written and how the characters were introduced. Then the book got gradually easier to understand even thought the plot was getting larger. As Gabriel Márquez wound us through the lives of Florentino and Fermina, I was hoping for a dramatic ending, but expecting a subtle one. What I got was a little of both. The part about Fermina and Florentino loving each other again was expected, but what was surprising was that they were going to be stuck on a boat in a river because of their own "brilliant thinking."
What about you Sasha? what do you think of the book and what were you expecting for the ending?
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