Meaningful Passage

Meaningful Passage:

The passage that stands out most to me is one that captures the basic idea of the most important theme of the book to me. That theme would be the repetition of time, the basic notion that time is going circles amongst the Buendia families, as though they are doomed to repeat the same tragedies over and over again. The second paragraph on pg. 221 in chapter 11, tells about how Ursula is sitting back and watching how generation after generation has resembled the previous ones before them. And in Colonel Aureliano Buendia's son, Aureliano Triste, she saw the spirit and habits of her husband Jose Arcadio Buendia. She noticed that he had the same adventurous and whimsical spirit. I think that this one passage has great significance to every character in the book, because many of the people resemble, even in the smallest way, some one who came before them. Such as how the twins resembled Aureliano Buendia and Jose Arcadio. It also explains on how the tragedies that happened to newer generations were similar in some way to the trials and tribulations happened to the generation before. I strongly wonder if a certain trait/characteristic is inherited simply because a person was given a name. I also wonder if it is just a coincidence that the similar tragedies happen to the people with same names or if it really is the name that brings upon a certain tragedy to that person who was cursedly cast with the certain name.