Active Reading-Summary: Chapter Two

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.