Active Reading-Themes: Chapter One

Stubbornness: It's a theme in this chapter because it is expressed in the first chapter. As we know Jose Arcadio Buendia is interested in the magnets and wants to buy them from Melquiades and although Ursula asks him not to do it and although Melquiades tells him the won't work for what he wants him for, Jose Arcadio Buendia still goes along with the trade, therefore showing his stubbornness.