"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in general was a hard novel to understand and read. His style of writing was very complex and he used a lot of irony in his work. Now one case of irony that Gabriel Marquez used in one hundred years of solitude was how in the end Aureliano (II) sees that it was the end of the Buendias family that he was able to decipher from …showed first 75 words of 1020 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1020 total…phrases. Upon reading all the pieces of parchment, Aureliano (II) found out that all the predictions made in Melquiades ancient prophecies were all correct. Even up to the part where he is reading them right as he spoke. Suddenly a warm breeze comes out of the west and blow through every house and every being, sweeping their souls across the earthly plain into heaven where they will live happy for the rest of their days.