Active Reading-Characters: Chapter One

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.