My Intro Paragraph for 100 Years of Solitude Paper (Thesis in Bold)

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story profuse with complex symbolism and paradoxes.  Pilar Ternera is a character in the novel with a strange, yet vital role.  Although she is portrayed as a whore, Pilar is actually more of a mother to the boys who she sleeps with than a genuine prostitute.  She seems to have taken the place of Úrsula in the Arcadio family’s boys’ lives.  José Arcadio, Aureliano, and Arcadio all have a common attraction to this woman.  Incest was a more acceptable  in those times in South America, so, the fact that someone like Arcadio desperately wishes to have sex with his own mother would not be all that unusual of a desire.  All of the Arcadio boys (and Arcadio) want their mother while they want to have sex.  However, Pilar acts on this general desire among the boys, not for her own pleasure, but in reality to make “her boys” happy.  The relationship that Pilar has with the Arcadio boys is not a purely sexually one.  Surprisingly, it is more of a maternal bond.