http://www.hotchkiss.k12.co.us/HHS/nobelnov/marquez.htm This source helps me out because it has a long discussion on the historical themes of the book and being that the paper is on the themes on the book, it will assist to my knowledge of the thems of the book and shall help me to write this paper.
Margaret Lee, May, 1998 "http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9181/main.html"
This website could help me because it is a whole website dedicated to the book, there are also other links to other websites which I am sure deal with the book and I am sure could helpme along with this paper.
"The following is the full text of a lecture delivered, in part, in Liberal Studies 402, on Tuesday, March 28, 1995, by Ian Johnston. This text is in the public domain, released May, 1999; the text was edited slightly on April 11, 2000]" >This source helps me because it is a lecture that is full of such useful information and information that possible you couldn't get out of the book itself. For example it tells you what some of the things in the story may be based on. For example the civil war in the book may be based on the wars of Colombia. I know that may not directly involve the purpose of the paper, but it may be called for for one or for another reason.
I don't know why but the dumb website wont come out but when you click on the link it sends you to the page.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 28 Mar 2007, 21:12 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 31 Mar 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude&oldid=118612702>. This site helps me because it gives me a ton of information of the book. Anything from summaries, to descriptions of ALL the characters to examples of allegories. Let me tell you something also, it gives you ALL the Buendia's seperated into generation in case there is some kind of confusion as to who is who. It also gives you their own interpretation of the themes of the book, which could help me very much because it'll give me someone else's point of view as to what the themes are.
Aureliano seems more bored with his life and more angry for he is and always has been irritated by Fernanda but now he is actually showing it when he goes all crazy breaking things.
tragedy: The town of Macondo is destroyed by horrible thunderstorms that have been lasting for quite some time now.
Macondo is suddenly overcome in thunderstorms, meanwhile Ursula feels her end coming and Aureliano Segundo is bored and starts to fix things in his home. The animals that Aureliano had bred are now all dead. Aureliano Segundo is still in the same old same old "Fernanda and Petra" situation and he ends up staying with Fernanda to take care fo the kids but unfortunately Fernanda is still nagging at him. Aureliano Segundo then becomes obsessed with finding the gold coins that Ursula has buried. The same gold coins that were in the saint that some people brought to her during the war and then said they would come back for and when Ursula realized there was money in there, she buried it because then everyone would want it.
“One morning Ursula woke up feeling that she was reaching her end in a placid swoon and she already asked them to take her to Father Antonio Isabel.”
-This quote is in around the beginning of the chapter and it is describing how Ursula feels her death coming and she already wants to talk to a priest, I guess to confess herself before she dies.
“He finally became worried about the state of his animals and he threw an oilcloth over his head and went to Petra Cote’s house.”Train: when in this chapter they mention that trains are jumping their track in the rain
Brooks, Gary. Literature Board Games. 1997.A to Z Teacher Stuff. March 29, 2007< http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/pages/487.shtml>
We really didn't use this website at all. It did not help us in ANY form or manner. We thought of our own plans. We did not need a website. Well this plan consisted of making a board game. After reading the book, the students have to remember the adventures of the protagonists. This will help students remember important themes and scenes of the book. We thought of a similar idea. In the sense that we also thought of a game. Let us remind you that we did not need this website, we thought of it on our own, but we conclude that this could have been a good idea as well.
The Project.2007. Founding Principles. March 29,2007 <http://www.favoritepoem.org/theproject/index.html>
This website provided us with absolutely nothing. We just used this website because it was required. We did not think of doing a poem at all, it did not even cross our mind, but here it is. Imaginary Use: We incorporated the thoughts of this website along with ours, it was an awesome website!! A poem WOULD HAVE been a good idea, but we went along with our own ideas. We were creative and thought of such things as a mobile or powerpoint.
HANDS-ON ACTIVITY/LESSON PLAN
Date: March 25, 2007
Lesson: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Lesson: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
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Dear Blog,
Although that Amaranta wasn't one of the biggest characters in the book, to me she was one of the most...how could I word this? One of the most controversial? Yes, controversial. For some reason Amaranta was always bitter, mysterious, mostly to herself. I feel as though Amaranat is this way for several reasons, first off because when she was a baby, her mother left her to go searching for Jose Arcadio and although she was a baby and perhaps you think she didn't know, babies do sense and it's difficult to explain but I feel that was one factor. Another factor was Rebeca. Rebeca was around Amaranta's age and although it is not mentioned in the book, perhaps Rebeca received special attention from the Buendia's for being the somewhat orphaned child? Perhaps attention that Amaranta never receieved? That jealousy also grew because we also know that Rebeca was prettier than Amaranta and Rebeca is the one that received Pietro's love first. The obvious jealousy started then for Amaranta would even threaten to kill Rebeca to halt the wedding. Soon after, Amaranata had her chance with Pietro and in the end she ruined it just as throughout the book she ruins the rest of her chances with men...which leads to her ultimate finale: her death, she dies an old, lonely, virginal woman who was still bitter for she would ask God to take Rebeca before he would take her.
.Aurora.
Dear Blog,
I think all these characters are messed up in the head. All the characters seem so boring, plain and simple and if not that they're bitter, mean, or have some sort of negative feeling. For example throughout this book, I don't really get a sense of love. Not from husband to wife or sister to brother, not even mother to son or anything of that sort. The only one relationship I somewhat feel love in is between Meme and Aureliano Segundo. Which is father to daughter love and vice versa. They're the only ones that you can read on and you feel the love. Meme and Aureliano get along, spend time together and even laugh about things which isn't really something you hear throughout the book. Not even when you read about the couples who are "in love". When I say everyone is bitter or mad or something of that sort I mean for example, Colonel Aureliano Buendia when he was fighting in the war. It seems like that was all he cared about. Amaranta was practically biitter all her life, she seemed to always be jealous of Rebeca even to the end of Rebeca's days when she was old and ugly. Jose Arcadio Buendia always seemed like a madman obsessed with finding out about new things, being stubborn. To be honest, now that I think about this, the book is an uncomfortable book. It is not a world I would like to be stuck in. Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia are cousins and married and they never seemed like they were in love.
The whole book seems to be based around technology, war and discoveries and oh yes...having children with similar names which only makes the book more confusing. For Pete's sake, I'm pretty sure you only read one phrase from a character telling of love, which is the scene were Meme tells her parents she just realized how much she loved them. (I'm not sure if I worded it right).
So yes...this was one of the things that was on my mind throughout the book and in a way it bothered me...
Aurora.
"She had to tolerate him against her will for the rest of her life..she lacked the courage to go through with her inner determination to drown him inthe bathroom"-This quote is about how Meme had her baby and Fernanda is not to o proud of that so she wants to get rid of him."Lets go renata" -This is what Fernanda says to Meme because she is goig to take her to the convent, where she dies quiet and alone.
Tragedy: Is a theme, for all those 3,000 innocent people died, coldbloodily.
Tragedy: Is a theme, for all those 3,000 innocent people died, coldbloodily.
memory wipeout: this one is pretty obvious. How can you wipe out an entire towns memory?
Fernanda: Continues to be the same person she was, strict, overbearing, big headed. Except now she has gotten worse, Meme has fallen in love and Fernanda is being unfair. She kills the ppor guy and she takes away Meme's baby and sends her to a convent wheer she lives unhappily till she dies. She is a cold, cold woman.
Meme: Has grown up in this chapter and has graduated with a degree with her clavichord, she seems really outgoing and a happy person. Her father and her get along, not so much with her mother but she seems so live life normally despite that. it isn't till she falls in love and has a child that her life changes. She is sent away wheer she lives in solitude and dies in solitude.
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Meme has given birth to a son and Fernanda orders Mauricio Babilinoa dead, since then Meme doesn't really talk. Fernanda farces her on a trip which we later find out leads her to the convent where Fernanda grew up in. At the moment she is left there, in the book we find out she dies alone, sad and never speaking a word. Fernanda returns and Jose Arcadio Segundo wanted to start a riot at the banana company. Aureliano Segundo wanted to help Meme out but Fernanda told him that Meme went to the convent on her own free will.
Later a strike breaks out. The people ate gathered and murdered. The whole town of Macondo is wiped out of memory. Jose Arcadio Segundo is the only one who rmeebers and who survived the massacre.
Death: It is a theme for the bitter Amaranta has finally passed away.
Realization: Maybe it is weird how he realized it but Aureliano finally realiuzed how to be a fatherly figure for he and Meme get along and even laugh of Fernanda together. I think her being a drunk (which is what I understood from the story) has brought them closer together.
butterflies: After Meme falls for the guy at the garage, there are butterflies following her everywhere for some reason, which I think are supposed to represent the butterflies you feel in your stomach when you are in love.
omen: The omen of Amaranta's death is magical realism for no one really gets warnings on when they are going to die.
Meme grows up and graduates from college as a concert clavichordist. She has become a drunk and Aureliano wants to and tries to take care of her. He has become a more fatherly figure to Meme than to any other of his children. Aureliano continues to think about Petra for he has even decorated Meme's room the same. Meme has American friends who break through barbed wire to come see her. Meme spends a lot of time over there and she learns new things from them. Amaranta dies in this chapter, and it is kind of asurprise for she still seemed healthy. Amaranta knew she was going to die for she had already received an omen and after all this happens, Meme falls for a guy she met at a garage.
Meme in this chapter is beginning to grow up and she is becoming more close to her father. Her father has seemed to grow up more and actually has time now to spend some time, it's as if Aurliano is the one that has grown up for he now spends time with his family.
"They spoke in whispers, ate in silence, recited the rosary three times a day and even clavichord practice during the heat of the siesta time had a funeral echo."
-This quote is describing after, Aureliano's death, how they all acted for a while in the house yet everything was still stained with the funeral, even the music they played.
"At tha time Aureliano postponed any appointment in order to be with Meme..."
-This quote is about how when Meme gets a drinkin problem, and all that Aureliano wants to do his time to with her
Death: This is one of the themese of this chapter for Colonel Aureliano Buendia dies in this chapter. and he was one of the more major characters in the book.
Ursula: Ursula had pretty much been the same throughout the book. Keeping order and having a somewhat steady head on her shoulder. In this chapter thought she finally begins to notice the bitterness that Amaranta has, recalling Pietro Crespi.
Ursula's Blindness: Is magic realism because how can she being so blind still thread a needle, that is impossible.growth: Ursula notices that the children grow faster and obviously age can't be rushed, it takes it's time just like life.
"In the bewilderment of her last years, Ursula had had very little free time to attend to the papal education of Jose Arcadio..."
-This quote is talking about how Ursula has no time to help Jose Arcadio with his training to be Pope because that is what was planned for him, for him to be Pope.
"In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when milk was about to boil"-This quote is abour how Ursula has become so blind yet she can still do a lot of things that many people younger than her can't even do.
In this chapter Macondo becomes more industrialized and a gringo has been invited to eat in Macondo and since then a banana factory is established there. Things become so drastically changed that Aureliano Buendia regrets having ended the war. This whole time while this is happeneing Remedios the Beauty if killing men allover Macondo, not purposely though. Her beauty is so strong that it leads to their deaths. Speaking of deaths, soon after attemps of death on the Aureliano's are made. They shoot all of them on their heads, right on the crosses that the ashes were put on with.
Lust/love: Everone (sarcastically speaking) is in love with Remedios, people die for her, people want a glimpse of her, Remedios beauty deals with alot in this chapter.
Macondo:I know that Macondo isn't exactly a character but being that it is described and changed the way it is, it should be considered a character. it starts our form nothing and had climbed it's way up. With a lot of bumps on the way also. For example the war or whent he magistrate tried to enforce certain rules or how now the gringos are trying to take over and now the criminality has raised in Macondo.
Beauty: The beaut of remedios is magical realism. Why? Well, people in everyday life are beautiful but...people don't die from someoen being beautiful, or from trying to catch a glimpse of someone so beautiful.River: When the gringos came over and decided to move the river...who can actually move a river?
Religion: I don't know exactly how to explain it, all I know is that religion seems to make up a big portion of this chapter. For example, Fernanda is very religious and uptight and when the Aureliano's arrive to Macondo, they receive ashes that remain permantly on their heads.
Fernanda at the end of chapter ten seemed quiet and delicate and also in the beginning of chapter 11, for she is very virginal and pure, very religious and such but as we learn, when the marriage continues, she seems to brag a lot of her family and tries to change the Buendia family to seem more like hers. No one really likes her, Amaranta talks crap about her, right in her face but in gibberish.Amaranta is very much the same as she always was. She seems to be one of those people that will be eternally bitter. For she is very old now and they mention that she is like the only person to remeber Rebeca yet she never says anything and I think this is for the fact from what happened with the whole Pietro situation.
Ursulas Old age: This is magical realism for Ursula is already passed her hundreds, if I am not mistaken she is a great great grandmother already. I know that people today do live to theire hundreds but I have to say that she is about one hundred twenty years old.
Crosses: The crosses on the foreheads of the Aureliano's are magical realism for who goes and gets ashes and tries to take them off and they never come off?
This chapter tells about how Aureliano Segundo marries Fernanda and how theire marriage isn't going so great. Aureliano is sleeping with Petra Cotes again and he makes fun of his wife, fernanda for the way she is. She tries to take over the Buendia household, trying to make things as if they wer her home and it makes Ursula very angry that even she begins to make fun of Fernanda's family. As you get deeper into the chapter we find out that there is a celebration that is going to go on to honor Aureliano Buendia and that is when his seventeen sons come to visit him and they all receive ashes. One of the sons tries to take off the ashes, and they don't come on, so the rest try to remove them and they realize that theirs also, don't come off. So, they are forever marked with those crosses even when they come nack to visit later in the book, that his how they are recognized by the crosses on their heads. When the Aureliano's leave, one of them stays behind and dixcovers a house that is so old. He goes in only to discover Rebeca sitting down, pointing a gun to him. He offers to rent the place to make an ice shop. No one even knew that Rebeca was still alive, they had all forgotten about her except Amaranta. It wasn't till Aureliano Triste mentioned her that Ursula remebered.
"The marriage was on the point of breaking up after two months because Aureliano Segundo, in an attempt to placate Petra Cotes, had a picture taken of her dressed as the Queen of Madagscar."
-This quote is about Aureliano Segundo and he had married Fernanda and the marriage was already not working out. and he had dresses Petra Cotes in her clothes. Petra is the woman he used to date before he was married.
"That's the most obscene thing I've ever seen in my life."
-This is when Aureliano Segundo sees Fernanda's nightgown on. I think they are about to make love and he sees her and recognizes how beautiful she is but then he realizes what she is wearing and he laughs at her.
Aureliano Segundo is a very sneaky man for he is sleepig with his brothers mistress and she doesn't know that that is him. He is like his grandfather spending hour sin that room, speaking to Melquiades and reading his books.
Ursula is fed up with the home and she wishes to be por again but for her unfortunate luck she has a statue at home that someone left during the war and it had money in it which she buries somewhere so no one will find it.
Vanity: In this chapter beauty is talked about alot. Remedios the beauty is so beautiful that she has to be covered with a shawl or otherwise guys will go crazy over her. This new guy in Macondo also is very attractive and gives Remedios yellow flowers but the women of Macondo say that he should be th eone wearing the shawl.
Magic Carpet Ride: Ursula mentions this to Aureliano Segundo and these carpets dont exist so this is magic realism.
Melquiades Ghost: It's magic realism because ghost don't really exist.
"The decisive difference was revealed in the midst of the war, when Jose Arcadio Segundo asked the Colonel to let him see an execution."
-This is when Jose Arcadio Segundo is all grown up and they begin to see the likeness he has to his relatives, even though they don't know if this is Jose Arcadio Segundo or not because he used to switch with his brother alot and they could never tell them apart.
"I go Tuesday nights"
-This is what Petronio says to Jose Arcadio Segundo about how he has sex with donkeys. Petronio doesn't know word it like that so Jose Arcadio Segundo is confused on what it is so he offers to take him on Tuesday when he goes.
In this chapter we learn more of Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo. Since they were little they had been difficult to tell apart and when they got older, they became very different from each other. One became involved in the room where Melquiades things were at and the other wanted to see an execution but when he did, he in a way converted to priest like manners but he soon got into cockfights which Ursula saw as bad because of what had happened with Jose Arcadio Buendia and the cockfights and Prudencio Aguilar. Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo slept with the same women with her not knowing it, eventually, she contracted Jose Arcadio Segundo with a disease. Aureliano Segundo becomes rich with money because his livestock starts breeding like crazy so he goes and pastes his money on Ursula’s house. Ursula is fed up with money and prays that they be poor again but instead a statue of a saint is broken in the house and there are a lot of gold coins in there, from which she buries to hide them. Soon, a carnival comes to town and Remedios the Beauty is proclaimed Queen of it. Her beauty is powerful that she has to walk around with a shawl on her face. At a celebration, someone shouts out “Long Live the Liberals!” and a riot breaks out that eventually ends and Aureliano Segundo marries the Queen of Madagascar.
Colonel Gerinaldo has become bored of the war yet when he returns to Macondo Amranta keeps his passions alive. He visits her everyday therefore remaining loyal. Colonel Aureliano’s power has gotten to his head for he has decided that no one can come closer than ten feet towards him. Not even Ursula, his mother. He even set afire the house of the windo of Mayor Moncanda all because she didn’t let him in. Eventually, Aureliano has noticed something different and begins distrusting in everything from the people he meets to his own officers. Aureliano has become so cold that he sentences Colonel Gerinaldo to death. Eventually, Ursula convinces him out of it and Aureliano ends the war. Aureliano laters tries to commit suicide but his attempts fail.
Realization Both Aureliano and Ursula have come to the realization that Aureliano has turned into a monster hence Ursulas threat to kill Aureliano and Aureliano's attempted suicide.
Aureliano has become a monster even to the point where he was willing to execute his best friend. Ursula threatens him saying that if he goes forward with it she will kill him herself and I guess he opens his eyes to all of this and doesn't go forward with the execution but I guess he feels guilty for everything he has dones so he attempts to kill himself.
Bullet Wound: When Aureliano tries to kill himself he tries to shoot ihmself in the heart and somehow miracly or magically he misses. Which is hard to believe because your heart isn't such a small thing to miss.
"Colonel Gerinaldo Marquez was the first to preceive the emptiness of the war."
-This quote is describing how Gerinaldo Marquez is getting confused on the war. He doesn't know why he is even fighting anymore and he has become bored of it.
Surrender Your Weapons"
-This is what Aureliano tells to Gerinaldo Marquez when Marques doesn't really agree on a decision that Aureliano makes and he calls it betrayal. Aureliano tells him to give up his weapons and to he is going to be excuted.
Pilar sees in the cards that Aureliano doesn't have a good fate that night and she begs him to stay.
General Moncanda (and Aureliano Buendia) has been a real respected figure in Macondo bue one day they come in to arrest him. He is in the prison when Aureliano comes to visit him and tells Moncanda that in his shoes he would do the same and Moncanda tells him to go to hell. That day they exceute Moncanda. Although I am ahead of chapters it goes hand in hand with what I am trying to say of Aureliano, he has turned into a monster for not only he has executed a really respected figure but he goes to his widow and burns her house down. He is now a monster like tyrant.
Incest once again is major theme for Aureliano Jose no longer looks at Amaranta with motherly or auntly eyes but he begins to be lustful. He even gets to the point of wanting to marry her. He tells her that he will go to the pop if he has to for it to be allowed. Eventually, Amaranta realizes what is going on ans stops the "fling"
Aureliano Jose is now older and the incest comes upon this chapter also. Although Aureliano Jose has always seen Amaranta nude, he suddenly desires her. They begin to have a fling type of relationship but Amaranta knows it would never work and stops it. Colonel Aureliano Buendia continues on with the war issues and has gone to the Caribbean to take care of more war issues (which by the way, confuse me). While he is gone, all the women that Aureliano had children come forward to baptize their child and Ursula writes down their information for Aureliano to find them when he came back. Aureliano Jose dies in this chapter and Colonel Aureliano attacks Macondo capturing the Mayor Moncanda, whom he sentences to death.
"Any children will be born with the tail of a pig."
Amaranta says this Aureliano Jose because he wants to marry her but she tells him that their children would be born with pig tails.
"We've done our duty by baptizing them"
-Ursula says this because all of Aureliano's seventeen children have come to be baptized and Ursula at first gave them gifts and money but she suddenly stopped and said they already were doing theire job. In other words, it was enough to baptize them.
Rebeca seemed to be the exciting type of a person. Was engaged to a foreign man and ran away with her step brother? When Jose Arcadio dies she isolates herself from everything and everyone.
Amaranta is playing around with Colonel Gerinaldo for she secretly likes him but for some reason keeps on rejecting him. It seems after Pietro suicide she just keeps on rejecting men although she may feel attracted to them.
In this chapter Colonel Aureliano Buendia is sentenced to death. It takes a few days for when the sentence will actually be carried out but when it is about to Jose Arcadio stops it. A few days later, Jose Arcadio is found dead in his room. Since then Rebeca isolates herself from people and from the town. Someone in this chapter attempts to kill Colonel Aureliano for he receives coffee with some sort of poison inside. Ursula cleans him out and he remains sick for a while but he gets better. As we know Pietro has killed himself leaving Amaranta alone. We now find out that Colonel Gerinaldo Marquez has always been in love Amaranta and although she likes him too she pushes him away. Jose Arcadio Buendia keeps on seeing Prudencio Aguilar but one day, he eventually dies. And on the day he is buried, flowers fall from the sky.
Blood is of magical realism for when Jose Arcadio is shot or shoots himself, the blood finds its way from that room in his house to Ursula's location in her house.
Flowers are falling on the day that Jose Arcadio Buendia dies. Mysterious because flowers don't usually just fall from the sky.
Jose Arcadio's Weight is magical realism because I don't think that a couple of years undera tree can make him gain so much weight that not even seven men could pick him up.
Death is a theme in this chapter because Aureliano is meant to die at the beginning which he gets to escape but he laters has an attempted murder on him when someone sends him poisoned coffee. Jose Arcadio also dies mysteriously. It is unknown whether he committed suicide or was murdered. Jose Arcadio Buendia also dies in this chapter after years of being tied to the tree.
"So if you have orders to shoot, start right in."
-This quote is said by Ursula when Aureliano is in jail and she wants to go visit him before they execute him. No one is allowed to go see him, not even her but she lets the guards no that she is going in no matter what.
"Holy Mother of God"
-Ursula also is the one that says this quote. She says this because she is surprised when she sees blood in her house. We later find out that she follows the blood and it leads back to Jose Arcadio's house and it happens to be his blood.
So, as I continue on with this book, I continue asking the many questions that go on in my head. In chapter seven as we know Colonel Aureliano is sentenced to death. I don't remeber if it was made specific in the book, but I think they're afraid of killing Aureliano Buendia. I'm kind of confused with what is going on when they are about to kill Aureliano and Jose Arcadio stops the murder. I'm not sure how, for that whole scene confuses me, well not just that scene but several scenes throughout the book confuse me. Anyway, a few days later Jose Arcadio is found dead. How he died? No one actually makes it clear yet. I don't think his wife killed him but I don't think he killed himself. It makes no sense. Things with Jose Arcadio Buendia aren't going so great...He is still seeing Prudencio Aguilar and finally it comes down to him dying. So, now we're back to the incest. Aureliano Jose if falling lustly in love with his Aunt, Amaranta. Amaranta raised him basically and she woiuld always undress around him. I find that a little funny. After a certain age, she should know not to change in front of him...sometimes, I wonder what goes on with the people in this book. For example, Colonel Aureliano Buendia's ten million sons (sarcastically speaking) come forward. This guy is a weirdo. It was like he was going all over the country planting his seeds. Anothe rhting I don't understand why if this book could go so far back in time and come so forward..why aren't there sexually transmitted diseases? Why can Aureliano Buendia go around having sex like crazy and not give women AIDS? Not that I wish anyone bad but, its like how conveniant you can have sewing machines and magic carpet but you can't have sexually transmitted diseases? The war is still continuing and the warriors don't even know what they are fighting for?
General Gerinaldo is about to be exceuted by Aureliano but Ursula knocks some snse into him. What is up with Aureliano??? He sleeps with random women, is a tryant who wants to execute everyone...this character is getting annoying and on the circumstances that this characters doesn't exist, I will say this...Why won't he die???? Well, thankfully he knocks some sense into himself and ends the war although he does go a little loony when he tries to kill himself...
What else?
What else?
Oh yes, chpater ten is quite confusing towards the end....there is another carnival or something of that sort in Macondo? And another war is started when someone shouts "Long Live the Liberals" at that festival?
Arcadio: Aureliano's son is weird. For he tries to sleep with his mother and seems to rule with cruelty. It's as if he has qualities of his father yet witha twist.
cruelty/evil/weird:There is a lot of cruelty in this chapter, alot of coldness. For when Aureliano leaves he leaves his son in charge of mAcondo and he tries to sleep with his own mom. That's weird. Then we find out later that he is excuted. Once again, much drama.
"He had seventeen male children by seventeen different women and they were exterminated one by one on a isngle night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirty five."
-This quote is referring to Aureliano whom had seventeen male children.
"It was a twilight engagement."
-This quote is talking about Pietro and AMaranta who frienship seems to be growing that now Ursula doesn't find it necessary to have to have their "dates" watched.
"Little Remedios woke up in the middle of the night soake din a hot broth which had exploded in her insides with a kind of tearing belch."
-This quote is describing when Remedios is having weird symptoms which we find out later was something deadly for she died.
"She's Your Sister"
-This is when Pietro and Jose Arcadio are talking about Rebeca and Jose says he is going to marry Rebeca and which he eventually does. Ursula frowns upon it and kicks them out.
As we know, Jose Arcadio returns and the book makes it sound like he is bigger than ever. Which he already was but witht he tattoos it may seem eevn more bestial giving him that out of ordinary feel.
I wouldn't know how to word this but finding out people's real side. I know I've mentioned this before but Rebeca seemed like the goody goody two shoes and she is the one that ended up cheating. Not that it was expected for Amaranta to cheat because she wasn't in arelationship but just knowing the way she was, in trying to break up the wedding, it was wrong. Remedios also, she neevr seemed like a bad person but it just showed her to be a person of even better character whenn she chose to care for Aureliano's son.
Rebeca:It seems like Rebeca has done a 360 here she used to be the good one and Amaranta seemd as though she was the bad one and now the tables have turned for Rebeca has an affair with Jose Arcadio.
Aureliano: I feel that through everything he has been throught Aureliano has grown more stern and more tougher. After going through the death of Remedios and all this warfare, I feel as though it's toughened him up.
This chapter is full of drama. Aureliano's wedding to Remedio's is being postponed till Remedios has reached puberty, which is obvious when she brags to her sisters she has received her peiod. Yet at the same time so is Rebeca's becasue her fiance receeives a letter saying that his mothe ris ill. We soon find out that the letter is a fake. They plame Amaranta for it but I she wears at the alter it was not her. Remedios may be a child but she has a good heart for she chooses to raise Aurelianos out of wedlock son. This is not the only drama. Remedios dies. Jose Arcadio comes back and ebgins an affair with Rebeca which I feel is unexpected. They are kicked out and then there begins a growing attraction between Rebeca's old fiance and Amaranta. I'm confused on the warfar part of the chapter but I know that that is how Aureliano receives his "Colonel" name.
Love: Love is something positive in this chapter yet also negaitve. For Rebeca is in love and getting married and Aureliano is in love also. Yet there is a negative aspect to it because Amaranta is jealous and want's to prevent Rebecas wedding, obviously making her jealous.
pianola: possibly is magic realism because supposedly at that time the world was new so possible the pianola is something extraordinary and new.
Rebeca's Eating Of Dirt: Is something that is out of the ordinary, you normally don't see humans eating dirt.
In this chapter we learn that Amaranta has grown jealous and cold for she wants to stop Rebeca's wedding.
Rebeca seems to be having the perfect life right now, she is beautiful and is getting married and that's probablt a factor in Amaranta's jealousy for her.
Jose Arcadio Buendia has lost all sense and has become insane. Melquiades death has reallt hit him hard and he now even calls out to the dead including Prudencio Aguilar which the man he had muredered inhis old town.
"Well," Aureliano said. "Tell me what it is."
-This is when Aureliano and Pilar are together and Aureliano has Pilar read his cards and she tells him something that isn't good.
"He spent the whole night in bed with his eyes open, calling to Prudencio Aguilar, to Melquiades, to all the dead, so that they would share his distress."
-This quote is describing Jose Arcadio Buendia when he finally has become insane. This i sjust sign of his insanity that he is even calling to the dead.
In this chapter Ursula has fixed up the house really nicely and has even hired a man to tecah Amaranta and Rebeca to dance, all meanwhile Aureliano cant get Remedios out of his head. In one attempt to talk to gher he actually freaks her out. Amaranta seems to be an outcast for they even said she had "hermiticism", hermits go and dwell away form everything on their own. There is even some drama in this chapter, Aureliano sleeps with Pilar, the same woman who slept with his brother. After that Pilar actually tries to help Aureliano get with Remedios and soon there will be two weddings. I think Amaranta's hermitism is affecting her for she is jealous of Rebeca's getting married and I would say of he rbeauty for in earlier of the book they mentioned that Amaranta was darker and it's a stereotype but dark is associated iwth ugliness.
Also, Jose Arcadio Buendia had done the unthinkable. He has gone insane.
"It was Aureliano who conceived the formula that was to protect them against loss of memory for several months."
-This quote is about who Aureliano found ways for them to remeber things better and what he does is he labels things. It doesn't really protect them against memory loss it just helps them.
"Everyone was at peace except Aureliano."
-This quote is describing how when Aureliano and Jose Arcadio Buendia go visit the magistrate and everything is solved but Aureliano isn't at peace for when he sees Remedios the younger daughter of the magistrate he falls in love with her despite the fact that she is nine.
Melquiades
Melquiades returns in this chapter, he is still alive and yet it is confusing because he was already dead and with the simple fact he decided he didn't want to be dead, he wasn't. So, he returns to Macondo with Daguerreotype and intrdouces them to it as well as curing their insomnia plague. He and Jose Arcadio Buendia become close again and begin experimenting in the lab again.
insomnia: It's a "plague" that infest the whole town of Macondo.
daguerreotype: At that time of the book, that something very new and magical for they never had anything of that sort in Macondo.
Melquiades' Cure for Insomnia: Everyone gets insomnia and has no way of curing it.
authority: The magistrate feels he has some sort of authority over in Macondo when no one even knew they had a magistrate but then Jose Arcadio Buendia feels he has the authority because he goes to the magistrate and takes away some of his authority.
Chester: I know thi isn't the correct term but it sounded better than "child molester" becaus eit isn't exactly what is going on. Aureliano is just in love with Remedios but it's kind of awkward because Remedios is nine years old and Aureliano is all grown up.
Child Exploitation: Aureliano coincidently gets himself into a situtation where he may sleep with a young girl. The reason that she is in this is that she has to pay off her family's debt. Which is exploitation.
In this chapte, the town begins to change because of the people that Ursula brings with her. One day a girl named Rebeca arrives to the family and they make her a part of the family. Along with her, she brings the insomnia plague and soon there is chaos in Macondo. Soon everyone can't sleep. It gets so bad that even their memory starts going and they soon begin to label things. One day a man arrives to Jose Arcadio house and Jose doesn't recognize him. It turns out to be Melquiades who also cures the insomnia plague. Also with him he brings daguerreotype which is a type of photograph and soon him and Jose Arcadio Buendia bsically become obsessed with it. Later we find out that there is a magistrate in Macondo and Jose Arcadio doesn't like this. He orders the magistrate to leave and he later comes back with soldiers so Jose Arcadio Buendia and the magistrate come to a compromise where the magistrate can stay if he makes the soldiers leave and isn't tellinh everyone what colors to paint their houses. On that visit, Aureliano becomes in lone with the magistrates nine year old daughter.
Pilar Ternera
She seems like one of those women who is lonely and just wandering around being weird and mysterious. She is the woman who is in a somewhat love affair with Jose Arcadio although she is older. She seems to always be sad although they don't specifically say that, you can just assume that based on whats happened to her. She was raped at fourteen but I'm sure she was in love with the guy who did it for her family tried keeping her away from him.
This chapter starts out with the news that Pilar has had her baby and Ursula forcefully accepts the baby. One day a little girl named Rebecca arrives tot he Arcadio family and she brings with her the insomnia plague and soon everyone has insomnia. The insomnia leads to forgetting things and Aureliano came up with the idea of labeling things so that they would know what they are for. Melquiades is still alive and comes and visits and he cures the insomnia plague. Aureliano somehow gets himself into a situation where he is supposed to sleep with a girl and he doesn't so when he leaves he feels bad for the girl and wants to marry her to get her away from all the bad.
incest: There's incense going on in the book. Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula are cousins and they get married. Also, the day Ursula walks in Jose Aracdio and he is naked and she is astounded bu "his size".
guilt: When Jose Arcadio Buendia first kills Prudencio Aguilar, Ursula begins seeing him everywhere and then so does Jose Arcadio Buendia, so they try to move away to another town and they never find it so that is when Jose Arcadio Buendia "founds" Macondo.
"Her name was Pilar Ternera. She had been part of the exodus that ended witht he founding of Macondo, dragged along by her family in order to separate her from the man who had raped her at fourteen and had continued and had continued to love her until she was twenty two, but who never made up his mind to make the situation public because he was a man apart."
-This quote is about Pilar Ternera whom is the woman with which Jose Arcadio has a love affair with and in result she becomes pregnant. This quote explains her earlier life before Macondo. It tells about how she was in love and she was raped by the man who raped her. Obviously
"Fearing that her stout and willful husband would rape her while she slept, Ursula before going to bed, would put on a rudimentary kind of drawers that her mother made out of sailcloth and had reinforced with a system of crisscrossed leather straps and that was closed in the front by a thick iron buckle."
-This quote is about when Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia got married, everyone warned Ursua that her children would come out deformed. Ursula was afraid of this so she wore a chastity belt so Jose Arcadio Buendia wouldn't even attept to rape her.
This chapter starts out telling the story behind Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia. It turns out that they are cousins. When they get married Ursula is told that people who consumate the marriage and have children, theyre children come out with animalistic features. So, at first Ursula would wear chastity underwear but then one day, Jose Arcadio Buendia murders someone and he returns to his room with the tool he used to murder and makes Ursula take off her undies and obviously they consumate. After some time Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula decide to leave for they are being haunted by Prudencio Aguilar's ghosts. On the way Ursula becomes pregnant and has a baby boy (Jose Arcadio) who luckily is human looking but was very "blessed".
Jose Arcadio grows up and is seduced by a woman named Pilar Ternera, eventually she becomes pregnant. One day Jose Arcadio goes to the gypsies fair and he sees a beautiful gypsy girl which he seduces and he runs off with. Ursula tries to search for him but she fails. When she returns, she returns with more people.
Juan Arcadio Buendia: Is a very stubborn person. He's powerful and proud for he is the founder of Macondo. He is stubborn when Ursula and Melquiades tell him not to get the magnets. He is obsessed with finding a way to make gold, which is the science of alchemy. He is more likely obsessed with gold in general because he thinks that the magnets will help him find gold. He is also very easily guilty? For when he was living in his old town, he murdered someone for saying things about his marriage and that is what drove him and Ursula out of that town to find another town but they never got through so they decided to make a new village which was Macondo.
Alchemy, itself is a form of magical realism for it's something of high wonder. Even to this day, alchemy is something of wonder but if it is in this day in age then it must've been back then when the people of Macondo found ice wonderous.
Magnets, magnets are of magic realism in this book for they think the objects have a mind of their own.
Magnifying Glass, Juan Arcadio Buendia wants to use the magnifying glass for solar war. He is amazed how the magnifying glass has the potential to create fire.
Stubbornness: It's a theme in this chapter because it is expressed in the first chapter. As we know Jose Arcadio Buendia is interested in the magnets and wants to buy them from Melquiades and although Ursula asks him not to do it and although Melquiades tells him the won't work for what he wants him for, Jose Arcadio Buendia still goes along with the trade, therefore showing his stubbornness.
"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
-You're probably wondering why I have chosen this quote being that it is the first quote in the book. I really admired the quote because it just sounded so bizarre. Discovering ice? It just seems weird, knowing that we look at ice everyday and it's not really a wondere to us because we're so used to being around it. Colonel Aureliano is Jose Arcadio Buendia's son and one day the annual gypsies brought ice with them and Jose Arcadio Buendia was fascinated for when he arrived to found Macondo he had a dream that it was a village made of mirror houses.
"They were new gypsies, young men and women who knew only their own language. handsome specimens with oily skins and intellegent hands, whose hands and music sowed a panic of uproarious joy through the streets, with parrots painted all colors reciting Italian arias, and a hen who laid a hundred golden eggs to the sound of a tambourine, and trained monkey who read minds, and the multiple-use machine that could be used at the same time to sew on buttons and reduce fevers, and the apparatus to make a person forget his bad memories, and a poultice to lose time, and a thousand more inventions so ingenious and unusual that Jose Arcadio Buendia must have wanted to invent a memory machine so that he could remember them all."
-This quote is about gypsies. Specifically, the gypsies that come annually in March with their new discoveries. They are the ones who brought the ice to Macondo and the same gypsies from which Jose Arcadio Buendia bought the magnets to discover gold.
