Active Reading: Themes-Chapter Three

authority: The magistrate feels he has some sort of authority over in Macondo when no one even knew they had a magistrate but then Jose Arcadio Buendia feels he has the authority because he goes to the magistrate and takes away some of his authority.

Chester: I know thi isn't the correct term but it sounded better than "child molester" becaus eit isn't exactly what is going on. Aureliano is just in love with Remedios but it's kind of awkward because Remedios is nine years old and Aureliano is all grown up.

Child Exploitation: Aureliano coincidently gets himself into a situtation where he may sleep with a young girl. The reason that she is in this is that she has to pay off her family's debt. Which is exploitation.