Active Reading-Summary:Chapter Ten

In this chapter we learn more of Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo. Since they were little they had been difficult to tell apart and when they got older, they became very different from each other. One became involved in the room where Melquiades things were at and the other wanted to see an execution but when he did, he in a way converted to priest like manners but he soon got into cockfights which Ursula saw as bad because of what had happened with Jose Arcadio Buendia and the cockfights and Prudencio Aguilar. Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo slept with the same women with her not knowing it, eventually, she contracted Jose Arcadio Segundo with a disease. Aureliano Segundo becomes rich with money because his livestock starts breeding like crazy so he goes and pastes his money on Ursula’s house. Ursula is fed up with money and prays that they be poor again but instead a statue of a saint is broken in the house and there are a lot of gold coins in there, from which she buries to hide them. Soon, a carnival comes to town and Remedios the Beauty is proclaimed Queen of it. Her beauty is powerful that she has to walk around with a shawl on her face. At a celebration, someone shouts out “Long Live the Liberals!” and a riot breaks out that eventually ends and Aureliano Segundo marries the Queen of Madagascar.