Active Reading-Summary:Chapter 3

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.