En el fin, ¿cúales la importancia y las resultados?

In the end, what can be gathered from this survey? Have we been able to understand the usage of magical realism and it's purpose?

We've gathered that magical realism serves as a way to create a nearly believable environment in which the reader can relate to the fictitious characters while still being reasonably removed from the environment.

In addition, by using magic realism in the character's life and death, the author is able to create an echo or reflection of the character's life. Often meaningful, and always personal, it serves to put an emphasis on the important aspects of the character and to make a statement about what is important to the individual. In the aspect of death, García Márquez establishes his unique writing style in defining the death of the character.

However, could it be said that the most useful aspect of the motif is to add social commentary? By combining imaginative writing with social and political commentary in a novel, García Márquez is providing his native Colombia with not only a novel of respectable quality but with an iconographic work of literature of which they can be proud.

Perhaps the best way to discern the true potential and goal for not the only usage of magical realism and yet the novel itself is not to study multitudes of journals and books, but to look to the author himself. In reading or listening to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1982, it's not too difficult to read between the lines and understand what it is he had hoped to accomplish through his prized novel and lifetime of work.

"Latin America neither wants, nor has any reason, to be a pawn without a will of its own; nor is it merely wishful thinking that its quest for independence and originality should become a Western aspiration. ... No: the immeasurable violence and pain of our history are the result of age-old inequities and untold bitterness, and not a conspiracy plotted three thousand leagues from our home. But many European leaders and thinkers have thought so, with the childishness of old-timers who have forgotten the fruitful excesses of their youth as if it were impossible to find another destiny than to live at the mercy of the two great masters of the world. This, my friends, is the very scale of our solitude." (Ortega 90, emphasis my own)

Later on in the speech, García Márquez continues with the idea of Latin America's own solitude.

"Faced with this awesome reality that must have seemed a more utopia through all of human time, we, the inventors of tales, who will believe anything, feel entitled to believe that it is not yet too late to engage in the creation of the opposite utopia. A new and sweeping utopia of life, where no one will be able to decide for others how they die, where love will prove true and happiness be possible, and where the races condemned to one hundred years of solitude will have, at last and forever, a second opportunity on earth." (Ortega 91, emphasis my own)

A closing thought perhaps,

"The repeated follies of José Arcadio—like the name and hereditary stubbornness of his great-grandson, like Ursula's pronouncements, like the end of the novel—are attempts on the part of García Márquez to assert that history is, in some sense, circular. The "primitive" past of Latin America, like that of Macondo, might have provided countless omens of Colombia's future, if anyone would have paid attention—that is, if anyone would have avoided the delirium of progress." (Conniff 177) 

For academic purposes, I have attached a Works Cited page.