100 Years Of Solitude
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When Ursula says, "If we go on like this we’ll be devoured by animals" (Marquez 309), it’s as if she’s looking into the future of the Buendia family. The future of the family, however, is not just to be devoured by the conventional animal, but also by other things taking the form of an animal.
It rains for four years, eleven months and two days (Marquez 291) and during that time, everything was constantly damp and that created the perfect environment for moss and weeds the grow everywhere. These intruders destroyed the house, and most of the town. Along with all of these plants came insects, and these insects also began the break down the house further. Unlike the plants, when the rains stopped, the insects didn’t go away. After finding a trunk full of cockroaches (Marquez 309), Ursula began an all out war on the insects. She would sweep them off the porch, use...