Active Reading-Summary: Chapter Two

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.