Active Reading-Summary:Chapter 11

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.