That's So Raven to Ursula

In One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ursula is paranoid at the thought of the consequences inflicted by incest. She worries of things such as a child born with a pig tail and their family's demise. She does as much as she can to prevent incest from happening in the rest of her family. She does things like wearing a chastity belt and warning her other family members. She refuses to consummate her marriage because Jose Arcadio Buendia is her cousin and she marries him. Eventually they have children, however she continues to warn her family members and attempt to prevent the concept of incest from happening throughout her family. After years and years of generations, her Aureliano Segundo has a baby with his relative who has a pig tail. The fall of the Buendia family comes and all of the work Ursula ever put in to save her family was for nothing. This can be related to the classic sitcom "That's So Raven." In the show, Raven, a psychic teenage girl, gets visions of bad things happening to the ones she loves and herself. Throughout the course of each episode she does everything in her ability to prevent the situation she had seen take place. By the end of each episode, no matter what Raven did to prevent her visions from coming true, they would happen. This parallel between a classic novel's theme and a modern tv show's theme proves to show that no matter what time period we are in, no one has a say in what happens concerning fate. No matter how hard you try, you can't change the things that are meant to happen.