Final Entry for One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
November 5, 2008

People are more likely to expemplify determinism when they pursue a solitary lifestyle. Most of the members of the Buendias family experience ongoing solitude, and they tend to repeat the mistakes of their ancestors. Garcia Marquez may be indicating that we achieve a greater sense of individuatlity (somewhat ironically) by reaching out to others and openly communicating with them. When we strive to understand and love one another, as well as when we pursue knowledge, particularly of history and literature, we achieve an individuality that we cannot have otherwise. Only when we are knowledgable and aware of the myriad choices and paths available to us can we exercise an individuality more reflective of free will.
Similarly, we can only over come "vices" through love and knowledge. Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano's child (the last of the Buendias) was "predisposed to begin the race again from the beginning and cleanse it of its pernicious vices and solitarly calling, for he was the only one in a century who had been engendered with love" (378). Perhaps the rest of the Buendia family, and in general people not engendered with love, are predisposed to solitude, and misery even.