"She started an endless, stumbling, deep prayer that lasted more than two days...and to never let any Bunedia marry a person of the same blood because their children would be born with the tail of a pig. Aureliano Segundo tried to take advantage of her delirium to get her to tell him where the gold was buried, but his entreaties were useless once more," (Marquez 342).
Ursula's last prayer and advice for the family resembles her constant personality throughout her entire life. She does not waste a minute of her living time in Macando without being productive in some shape or form. Since she is the bearer or such superior knowledge, she feels obligated to share her last words of wisdom before passing. Her advice on resisting marriage between the family is emphasized, since Ursula acknowledges the first-hand consequences of this, being a lifetime of suffering in some manner. Her departing prayer aligns perfectly with how her character is portrayed: a motherly and selfless figure. She even sticks to her refusal to share the location of the buried gold to Aureliano Segundo. Constantly, her family members bombard her to share the information, yet she knows that there is someone who is destined to find it for themselves. Even in her disoriented state, she still has waves of her lucidity. Her death is not as significant as I imagined it would be. It seems that Macando is not affected much, as I assumed a plague would follow, or the family would be in ruins without her direction. The only disaster that succeeds her death is a heatwave and a disorganized house. The scale of these disasters does not seem fitting for Ursula's long-awaited death. Ursula's funeral is nevertheless disappointing since she had done so much for the family and practically raised every one of them.
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