Active Reading- Summary:Chapter Seven

In this chapter Colonel Aureliano Buendia is sentenced to death. It takes a few days for when the sentence will actually be carried out but when it is about to Jose Arcadio stops it. A few days later, Jose Arcadio is found dead in his room. Since then Rebeca isolates herself from people and from the town. Someone in this chapter attempts to kill Colonel Aureliano for he receives coffee with some sort of poison inside. Ursula cleans him out and he remains sick for a while but he gets better. As we know Pietro has killed himself leaving Amaranta alone. We now find out that Colonel Gerinaldo Marquez has always been in love Amaranta and although she likes him too she pushes him away. Jose Arcadio Buendia keeps on seeing Prudencio Aguilar but one day, he eventually dies. And on the day he is buried, flowers fall from the sky.