Plot summary:
chapter18- Aureliano stays in Melquiades room and studies all the books and parchments. Sofia tries to fix the house but can't keep up with it so she leaves. Fernanda is helpless without her so she asks Aureliano to help her make coffee. Things in the house start moving around and she doesn't know how so she starts thinking there are elves in the house. She also spies on Aureliano because she thinks he is stealing things from her. Her arm gets shorter. Fernanda dies. Jose Arcadio comes back to Macondo and Aureliano goes out to get books. Jose Arcadio invites kids to stay in the house and some of the elder ones would help him with his appearance. They discover the Plaster st joseph gold. JA fixes the house that is soon ruined by the kids then he kicks them out. Aureliano Amador comes to the house for help but they turn him away and he gets shot. Kids come back and take the money after drowning JA while Aureliano is unaware of it all.
chapter 19- Amaranta Ursula returns with her husband tied to a string. His name is Gaston. She brought birds to repopulate in Macondo but they just fly away. Gaston starts spending time in Melquiades room with Aureliano. He wants to ship an airplane to Macondo. Aureliano has more freedom and Macondo is at peace. Aureliano meets a woman named Nigromanta. He begins to fall in love with Amaranta Ursula at the same time. Nigromanta and him are lovers and she makes him pay her just so she can give it back when he needs it. Aureliano makes new friends. AmarantaUrsula is irresistable to him and she learns from him. She does not want to leave Macondo. Aureliano divulges his secret passion for Amaranta U. She wants to leave after that . Aureliano talks to Pilar and she knows about the repitition of his family. Aureliano and Amaranta U. have sex.
chapter 20- Pilar Ternera dies in a rocking chair. Aureliano and German helps a Man who travels. all of Aureliano's friends leave Macondo and some write and others don't. Gaston returns to Brussels. AU and Aureliano keep making love while he is gone. Aureliano stops leaving the house and the two destroy it. Gaston writes that he is returning but AU tells him she is in love with Aureliano and he accepts that. The two new lovers try to make money and AU gets pregnant. Aureliano tries to find his origins and they are scared that they are brother and sister. They restrict themselves to one area. AU gives birth to a son and wants to name him Rodrigo but Aureliano names him Aureliano and wants him to fight in wars. Their son has a pigs tail. AU dies after giving birth and Aureliano has a broken heart. The son is eaten by ants. Aureliano realizes a quote from the parchments. Melquiades had written their entire lines history 100 years ahead of time. He finds out who he is and what will happen. When he finishes reading it Macondo is wiped out.
Theme: the fall, ignorance, circular time
Magical Realism: Fernanda's arm gets short and she thinks there are elves in the house. there is also a yellow glow that comes from the floor then the floor breaks.
Characters:
Aureliano: Meme's son, Locked in Melquiades room, loves Amaranta Ursula, discovers Melquiades Parchments true meaning, the last in the Buendia house.
Jose Arcadio: Fernanda's son, Discovers the gold from the plaster st Joseph, drowned to death by kids
Fernanda: paranoid about elves and thieves. dies in alone in her room
Amaranta Ursula: married to Gaston but loves Aureliano, has Aureliano's child but dies shortly after giving birth
Gaston: Amaranta Ursula's husband waits for airplanes to arrive in Macondo
Nigromanta: Prostitute, Aureliano's lover.
Pilar Ternera: 140ish, knows the repetitiveness of the Buendia line. dies in her rocking chair
Quotes:
chapter 18
#1 : pg 375- "Only then did he understand how he had began to love him." Aureliano doesn't even realize he loves JA until he dies...i guess that goes under the saying, you don't know what you have until it's gone..
#2 pg 375 : "Aureliano shut up in his room was not aware of anything."
this quote shows the ignorance in the family.
chapter 19
#1 pg 381: "..two strong sons who would be named Rodrigo and Gonzalo and never Aureliano and Jose Arcadio, and a daughter Virginia and never Remedios. " She doesn't want the names of former Buendia's because they would have the same horrible fate as the rest of them.
#2 pg396: "History of his family was a machine of unavoidable repetitions."
Pilar knows the circular time of the family and how they always repeat.
chapter 20
#1 pg410: "The silver shop, Melquiades room, ........in the depths of a domestic jungle that no one would have had the courage to penetrate." This relates to the quote in the beginning when he says he found immortality ..when he says that i guess it related to his room also..
#2 pg415: "The first of the line tied to a tree and the last eaten by the ants."
Melquiades new this and wrote it down but didn't do anything to stop it..i guess it shows that this was truely their fate.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Reflective blog chapters 18-20!!!!!!!!
This is the last blog for One Hundred Years Of Solitude and I am surprisingly going to miss it.
I was really excited entering chapter 18 because i knew that it was the beginning of my last blog
and I really wanted to find out the ending of the book. Chapter 18 was not all that amazing I didn't really enjoy it as much as i enjoyed the previous chapters. I was pretty sad when Sofia left because she was my favorite just because she was not all obnoxious and she still helped out a lot. I really wanted to know what happened to her after but information doesn't come up about her after she leaves. Then again i guess it is good that she left because then she didn't die with the rest of Macondo. Those little kids are so stupid i was pissed when they came back to the house and stole the money and drowned Jose Arcadio. I mean seriously what a waste..Ursula wouldn't even give the money to her family and then some boys come and just take it, But i guess it was destined because Jose Arcadio was not meant to spend it and he did. I'm not sure if it is considered a motif but they repetively fix the house in this book. Jose Arcadio comes and fixes it, Amaranta Ursula tries to fix it, Ursula fixes it, Sofia tries to also. That might represent trying to make something out of things that are destined to fail, such as Macondo and the Wars that CAB were in. We finally see what happens to Aureliano Amador and he gets shot that is so sad. not to be rude but I was not sad when Fernanda died...I was like "FINALLY!" haha i think thats mean but she needed to die sometime. It is really gross how Amaranta Ursla has sexual relations with her nephew i wanted to puke. I mean it is enough that she is cheating on her husband...but with a relative, that is just disgusting. Pilar Died at a really OLD age i was shocked to see she was alive for pretty much the entire book. Since she could read cards and knew the lives of the whole Buendia family so she was one person who actually did know the repetitions of their history. Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula's son has a pigs tail which is weird but they diserve it cuz they committed incest. Ew it was nasty how he was eaten by ants. I was so excited when i got to chapter 20 and figured out what ONE HUNDRED YEARS really meant. they are rrealllly ignorant because even Jose Arcadio read the Parchments and he didn't even realize he read his death. Macondo was wiped out and i was sad for it to be finished but i guess it was destined from the beginning. I am done and I am happy woop woop!!!!
I was really excited entering chapter 18 because i knew that it was the beginning of my last blog
and I really wanted to find out the ending of the book. Chapter 18 was not all that amazing I didn't really enjoy it as much as i enjoyed the previous chapters. I was pretty sad when Sofia left because she was my favorite just because she was not all obnoxious and she still helped out a lot. I really wanted to know what happened to her after but information doesn't come up about her after she leaves. Then again i guess it is good that she left because then she didn't die with the rest of Macondo. Those little kids are so stupid i was pissed when they came back to the house and stole the money and drowned Jose Arcadio. I mean seriously what a waste..Ursula wouldn't even give the money to her family and then some boys come and just take it, But i guess it was destined because Jose Arcadio was not meant to spend it and he did. I'm not sure if it is considered a motif but they repetively fix the house in this book. Jose Arcadio comes and fixes it, Amaranta Ursula tries to fix it, Ursula fixes it, Sofia tries to also. That might represent trying to make something out of things that are destined to fail, such as Macondo and the Wars that CAB were in. We finally see what happens to Aureliano Amador and he gets shot that is so sad. not to be rude but I was not sad when Fernanda died...I was like "FINALLY!" haha i think thats mean but she needed to die sometime. It is really gross how Amaranta Ursla has sexual relations with her nephew i wanted to puke. I mean it is enough that she is cheating on her husband...but with a relative, that is just disgusting. Pilar Died at a really OLD age i was shocked to see she was alive for pretty much the entire book. Since she could read cards and knew the lives of the whole Buendia family so she was one person who actually did know the repetitions of their history. Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula's son has a pigs tail which is weird but they diserve it cuz they committed incest. Ew it was nasty how he was eaten by ants. I was so excited when i got to chapter 20 and figured out what ONE HUNDRED YEARS really meant. they are rrealllly ignorant because even Jose Arcadio read the Parchments and he didn't even realize he read his death. Macondo was wiped out and i was sad for it to be finished but i guess it was destined from the beginning. I am done and I am happy woop woop!!!!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Active Reading for chapters 14-17
Theme: Repeating of time; Disaster
Magical Realism: The thing that they did not know if it was an animal or a man and were it had wings that were cut off. The invisible doctors. The butterflies that followed Mauricio and The four year rains
Quotes:
quote 1 ch14 : "The yellow butterflies would invade their house at dusk." Mauricio wold come over at night but no one really realized.
quote 2 ch14 273: "He was creating a second version of Petra Cotes room." He loves his daughter just as much as he loves Petra.
quote 1 ch15 293: "The events that would deal Macondo it's fatal blow..." Forshadow of Macondo's end blow may symbolize winds?
quote 2 ch15 296: "last butterfly destroyed in the blades of the fan..." Represents that Mauricio is actually dead and Meme actually is accepting that
quote 1 ch16 316: "...floating throught the atmosphere in the rooms.." the atmosphere is damp so it could represent that things are sad or falling apart.
quote 2 ch16 330: "Sunk up to his neck in morass of dead branches and rotting flowers.." May symbolize dead hope or a dead dream.
quote 1 ch17 342: "there were not many left that remembered her.." Ursula and her husband founded Macondo and these people dont remember her..that could show that when Macondo dies no one will remember it.
quote 2 ch17 335: "What did you expect..time passes..that's how it goes..." This is a repeat time really is repeating.
Characters:
ursula: Tries to help with the house; becomes a plaything for the children; dies at age between 115 to 122
JAS: Locks himself up in Melquiades room; dies
AS: Stays at Petra Cotes house finds his love for his daughter; dies
Amaranta: still somewhat bitter but dies in peace
Rebeca: Dies in her room old and alone
Meme: comes home and falls in love with a man from the Banana Company, gets sent off
Mauricio: Loves meme; shot by a man; yellow butterflies follow him
Fernanda: bossy and tries to run the house; does not feel respected
Petra Cotes: concubine; seems like AS loves her more sells raffle tickets
Browns: American family
Amaranta Ursula: Fernanda & AS baby sent off to a private school
Aureliano: Meme's son; is sent to the house ; a mark of shame for fernanda
Gerineldo Marquez: dies during the rains
Plot Summary:
ch14- Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo have a baby named Amaranta Ursula. Fernanda becomes even more controlling. Meme comes home and has some freedom. She realizes that she likes Petra Cotes better than her own mother. Meme tells Fernanda that she loves her but doesn't really mean it but she is so moved by it that she tries to take care of her. A father daughter relationship begins to grow and he rearranges her room. Petra did not like Meme because she did not want her to take AS away from her. She was not alowed at her house. Meme gets American friends and learns English and american games. Meme opens up to her father about drinking and boys and he only laughs. Amaranta dies. Fernanda catches Meme kissing a boy in the movies and she does not approve of him but Meme loves him. Butterflies follow him everywhere. Meme see's pilar not knowing that she is her great grandmother and she is told to have sex. After they are caught Meme and her fathers relationship is never the same and Mauricio is shot on the roof; framed as a chicken thief.
ch15- Meme's baby is sent to the house and no one finds out it is her baby except for meme's parents. Fernanda take Meme away from home to her old town and leaves her there. The butterflies finally disapear. Ursula again notices the repitition in time. Fernanda believes she has more authority than the bible. The Banana workers begin to complain. They say the workers don't exsist. There are orders to kill the strikers. There was a Massacre and people were piled in a train car. People of Macondo don't even remember or know about the Massacre, the army people kill members of the strike in their homes and lie to the families. The go to find JAS but they do not see him in the room. JAS becomes like his Great grandfather.
ch16-it Rains for four years. AS stays at the Buendia's until the rain clears and helps fix up the house. He discovers he is losing emotion for his past. He recognizes Aureliano is his grandson. Fernanda has Uterine problems. She thinks doors were invented to stay closed. Gerineldo Marquez's funeral occurrs during ther rains. Ursula calls him son and says she will die after the rain ends. AS goes back home to save the animals and realized he can't be with Petra and goes back to the Buendia's. Fernanda complains more and more so AS smashes everything in the house then goes to get food. AU and Aureliano play with Ursula like a toy. AS tries to find the plaster st Joseph and eventually starts neglecting the children. Rains end in June and it does not rain for another 10 years. Macondo is in ruins. people can swim. AS goes back to Petra who has mule in the house that she is planning to raffle off.
ch17- Ursula tries to fix the house and dies at about 120. AS and Petra begin the love eachother more. Rebeca dies in her room. The gypsies come back and show the magnets and the magnifying glass. Fernanda nails the windows shut. She has a check up with the invisible doctors. Her doctor hanged himself. No one really cares for her. Aureliano and JAS become close friends and hang out in Melquiades room. They begn to believe what JAB believed about everyday being Monday. They both see Melquiades. AS has an ache in his throught so he goes to see Pilar to find out what is wrong, she tells him that Fernanda is trying to get him home by making him suffer. He realizes he is just dying but he does not tell anyone. He sends Amaranta Ursula to private school. JAS dies with his eyes open. Aureliano Segundo also dies. Fernanda wont let Petra put the shoes on AS that he wanted to wear in his coffin. In the end AS and JAS coffins are mixed up and they are put into the wrong graves
Magical Realism: The thing that they did not know if it was an animal or a man and were it had wings that were cut off. The invisible doctors. The butterflies that followed Mauricio and The four year rains
Quotes:
quote 1 ch14 : "The yellow butterflies would invade their house at dusk." Mauricio wold come over at night but no one really realized.
quote 2 ch14 273: "He was creating a second version of Petra Cotes room." He loves his daughter just as much as he loves Petra.
quote 1 ch15 293: "The events that would deal Macondo it's fatal blow..." Forshadow of Macondo's end blow may symbolize winds?
quote 2 ch15 296: "last butterfly destroyed in the blades of the fan..." Represents that Mauricio is actually dead and Meme actually is accepting that
quote 1 ch16 316: "...floating throught the atmosphere in the rooms.." the atmosphere is damp so it could represent that things are sad or falling apart.
quote 2 ch16 330: "Sunk up to his neck in morass of dead branches and rotting flowers.." May symbolize dead hope or a dead dream.
quote 1 ch17 342: "there were not many left that remembered her.." Ursula and her husband founded Macondo and these people dont remember her..that could show that when Macondo dies no one will remember it.
quote 2 ch17 335: "What did you expect..time passes..that's how it goes..." This is a repeat time really is repeating.
Characters:
ursula: Tries to help with the house; becomes a plaything for the children; dies at age between 115 to 122
JAS: Locks himself up in Melquiades room; dies
AS: Stays at Petra Cotes house finds his love for his daughter; dies
Amaranta: still somewhat bitter but dies in peace
Rebeca: Dies in her room old and alone
Meme: comes home and falls in love with a man from the Banana Company, gets sent off
Mauricio: Loves meme; shot by a man; yellow butterflies follow him
Fernanda: bossy and tries to run the house; does not feel respected
Petra Cotes: concubine; seems like AS loves her more sells raffle tickets
Browns: American family
Amaranta Ursula: Fernanda & AS baby sent off to a private school
Aureliano: Meme's son; is sent to the house ; a mark of shame for fernanda
Gerineldo Marquez: dies during the rains
Plot Summary:
ch14- Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo have a baby named Amaranta Ursula. Fernanda becomes even more controlling. Meme comes home and has some freedom. She realizes that she likes Petra Cotes better than her own mother. Meme tells Fernanda that she loves her but doesn't really mean it but she is so moved by it that she tries to take care of her. A father daughter relationship begins to grow and he rearranges her room. Petra did not like Meme because she did not want her to take AS away from her. She was not alowed at her house. Meme gets American friends and learns English and american games. Meme opens up to her father about drinking and boys and he only laughs. Amaranta dies. Fernanda catches Meme kissing a boy in the movies and she does not approve of him but Meme loves him. Butterflies follow him everywhere. Meme see's pilar not knowing that she is her great grandmother and she is told to have sex. After they are caught Meme and her fathers relationship is never the same and Mauricio is shot on the roof; framed as a chicken thief.
ch15- Meme's baby is sent to the house and no one finds out it is her baby except for meme's parents. Fernanda take Meme away from home to her old town and leaves her there. The butterflies finally disapear. Ursula again notices the repitition in time. Fernanda believes she has more authority than the bible. The Banana workers begin to complain. They say the workers don't exsist. There are orders to kill the strikers. There was a Massacre and people were piled in a train car. People of Macondo don't even remember or know about the Massacre, the army people kill members of the strike in their homes and lie to the families. The go to find JAS but they do not see him in the room. JAS becomes like his Great grandfather.
ch16-it Rains for four years. AS stays at the Buendia's until the rain clears and helps fix up the house. He discovers he is losing emotion for his past. He recognizes Aureliano is his grandson. Fernanda has Uterine problems. She thinks doors were invented to stay closed. Gerineldo Marquez's funeral occurrs during ther rains. Ursula calls him son and says she will die after the rain ends. AS goes back home to save the animals and realized he can't be with Petra and goes back to the Buendia's. Fernanda complains more and more so AS smashes everything in the house then goes to get food. AU and Aureliano play with Ursula like a toy. AS tries to find the plaster st Joseph and eventually starts neglecting the children. Rains end in June and it does not rain for another 10 years. Macondo is in ruins. people can swim. AS goes back to Petra who has mule in the house that she is planning to raffle off.
ch17- Ursula tries to fix the house and dies at about 120. AS and Petra begin the love eachother more. Rebeca dies in her room. The gypsies come back and show the magnets and the magnifying glass. Fernanda nails the windows shut. She has a check up with the invisible doctors. Her doctor hanged himself. No one really cares for her. Aureliano and JAS become close friends and hang out in Melquiades room. They begn to believe what JAB believed about everyday being Monday. They both see Melquiades. AS has an ache in his throught so he goes to see Pilar to find out what is wrong, she tells him that Fernanda is trying to get him home by making him suffer. He realizes he is just dying but he does not tell anyone. He sends Amaranta Ursula to private school. JAS dies with his eyes open. Aureliano Segundo also dies. Fernanda wont let Petra put the shoes on AS that he wanted to wear in his coffin. In the end AS and JAS coffins are mixed up and they are put into the wrong graves
Reflective blog for chapters 14-17
In chapters 14- 17 it made me sort of sad because all of the misfortunes and the the depressing events that took place. In the beginning it was somewhat alright but you could tell some bad things were about to happen. My dislike for Fernanda constantly began to grow because of the way she CONSTANTLY began to nag. She should just leave because the house isn't even hers and her husband doesn't even stay there much. I think if she was not so stuck up and rude then Aureliano Segundo would actually like her. I thought it was cute how Meme liked a boy. I was so mad when Fernanda made someone shoot him. i am still trying to figure out what the yellow butterflies stand for but i am hoping to figure that out. Amaranta dies...that's so sad, i guess most people would be happy because she was so bitter but i kind of liked her. I mean she had a broken heart and she was the only girl in the family until Rebeca came..and then her parents showed more love to Rebeca than her, OFCOURSE she is going to hate Rebeca. If i knew that i was going to die after i finished sewing something..i would take a long time just like she did. I guess theres a lot of forshadowing in these four chapters. the number three constantly shows up over and over again and i always think of when jesus rose from the dead three days after he was put on the cross. I would hate if it rained for FOUR years..i mean it would be so depressing and i guess thats what it symbolizes. I always wondered why they always brought up the smell of mud in the previous chapters and i think that it might have been a forshadow of the rain to come. Everyone always denies or does not tell anyone when they are hurt or dying ..they have issues..i would tell someone so i could live. I feel bad for Ursula because the kids always play with her and then she dies. a lot of people just randomly die in the end of these chapters i mean they have no story of how it happened. JAS just dies in the room and Rebeca dies in her home then AS dies and also Ursula. oh my i hate those stupid people who killed those 3,000 or so people, and no body even remembers they are so dumb. I was happy that JAS survived that but still theres no point in surviving when no one believes your story! When the gypsies came back i was like ok this is definitely repeating itself because they even bring the magnets back. When they mixed up Jose and Aureliano Segundo's coffins i thought about when they were young and people would mix them up because they changed clothes. They forshadowed the end of Macondo in these chapters so i was sad but i already knew that, but anyway theres no one really important thats alive anymore so i dont really care if it is destroyed. the only person alive that i like now is Santa Sofia
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Active reading 12-13
Theme: New experience, change, and things falling apart.
Characters:
Ursula: old and blind, senses are better, not really in charge anymore
Fernanda: Tries to rule the house, a widow with her husband still alive
Petra Cotes: whore, takes A.S away from Fernanda
Pilar: Fat, old
JAS:Joins Banana company, Forman. spends time with CAB
JA: goes to seminary right away
CAB : can not love, bad memory, dies
Amaranta: Still bitter, scared of love
Meme: like father, goes to school with nuns
AS: gets fat , lives with petra, More of a husband to petra
Santa sofia: not much exsistance, notices CAB dead
Quotes:
ch12
(Quote #1 pg 236) "The flapping sheets that rose up with her." This could represent wings taking her to heaven where true beauty is, where she is meant to be.
(Quote #2 pg 225 ) " No one had noticed him until the first bunch of Bananas had been eaten." Shows the families ignorance and how they never notice change.
Ch.13
(Quote#1 pg245) " ..Or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the shape of things." dark clouds could represent bad things ahead or her blindness kicking in, it might be a metaphor.
(Quote #2 pg246) "Sinking into the darkness." This is like Macondo is sinking slowly into the darkness each time new things appear there.
Plot summary:
Chapter 12:
People of Macondo Spend nights exploring and observing the railroad trying to figure out what the train is. New inventions are discovered and they are tested and unliked by the people. Mr. Herbert comes and no one notices him for a little. After he comes everything begins to go wrong. New cops come and they kill a boy for spilling soda. CAB says that him and his sons will kill the gringos, so they hunt his sons down and kill 16 of them. A man spies of Remedios and she shows no care for him. Remedios is lifted into the sky and does not return. The streets become crazy with life. People have sex in the streets in front of everyone. New people cover up Jose Arcadio's tomb to get rid of the smell. Herbert brings the first car in Macondo.
Chapter 13:
Jose Arcadio goes to a seminary right away and Meme is sent to a nun school. Ursula discovers that she is blind and lost count of how old she is. Lights were invented and Ursula could barely see them. Ursula is scared that if her family finds out she is blind then they will think she is useless. She begins to use her four senses and is keener than ever. She notices the Repetition in the families everyday lives and noticed that when they do things different then things go wrong and she knows were to look. When the sun changes so does the family. Ursula finally figures out what is wrong with Amaranta and is sorry for outcasting Rebeca. Pilar says that old age is more keen than the cards. When Ursula tries to see she just bumps into things and gets in the way. There are more new comers in Macondo. Fernanda bans JAS from the house but he still come back later. AS stays with Petra because Fernanda is to much for him. AS has parties all the time and becomes fat. CAB burns remedios' dolls because of the moths and Ursula says his heart is made of stone. Meme invites the nuns and schoolgirls to the house and it become chaotic. Fernanda thinks she is barbarian like her father. JAS is no longer a partial memeber of the family. CAB watches the circus just like his childhood then forgets it. He sits by the chesnut tree and dies. Santa Sofia find him with vultures flying away.
Magical Realism:
when Ursula can find things easier while being blind
she can sew, know when the milk was boiled, and knew locations of things, forgetting she was blind. The fact that she can do so much being blind seems like magcal realism.
When AS and the elephant lady eat all day could be M.R because no one can eat for an entire day.
The breeding of the animals was wilder. they were already breeding alot and if it was wilder than that is A LOT of animals.
Characters:
Ursula: old and blind, senses are better, not really in charge anymore
Fernanda: Tries to rule the house, a widow with her husband still alive
Petra Cotes: whore, takes A.S away from Fernanda
Pilar: Fat, old
JAS:Joins Banana company, Forman. spends time with CAB
JA: goes to seminary right away
CAB : can not love, bad memory, dies
Amaranta: Still bitter, scared of love
Meme: like father, goes to school with nuns
AS: gets fat , lives with petra, More of a husband to petra
Santa sofia: not much exsistance, notices CAB dead
Quotes:
ch12
(Quote #1 pg 236) "The flapping sheets that rose up with her." This could represent wings taking her to heaven where true beauty is, where she is meant to be.
(Quote #2 pg 225 ) " No one had noticed him until the first bunch of Bananas had been eaten." Shows the families ignorance and how they never notice change.
Ch.13
(Quote#1 pg245) " ..Or the dark clouds that barely permitted her to make out the shape of things." dark clouds could represent bad things ahead or her blindness kicking in, it might be a metaphor.
(Quote #2 pg246) "Sinking into the darkness." This is like Macondo is sinking slowly into the darkness each time new things appear there.
Plot summary:
Chapter 12:
People of Macondo Spend nights exploring and observing the railroad trying to figure out what the train is. New inventions are discovered and they are tested and unliked by the people. Mr. Herbert comes and no one notices him for a little. After he comes everything begins to go wrong. New cops come and they kill a boy for spilling soda. CAB says that him and his sons will kill the gringos, so they hunt his sons down and kill 16 of them. A man spies of Remedios and she shows no care for him. Remedios is lifted into the sky and does not return. The streets become crazy with life. People have sex in the streets in front of everyone. New people cover up Jose Arcadio's tomb to get rid of the smell. Herbert brings the first car in Macondo.
Chapter 13:
Jose Arcadio goes to a seminary right away and Meme is sent to a nun school. Ursula discovers that she is blind and lost count of how old she is. Lights were invented and Ursula could barely see them. Ursula is scared that if her family finds out she is blind then they will think she is useless. She begins to use her four senses and is keener than ever. She notices the Repetition in the families everyday lives and noticed that when they do things different then things go wrong and she knows were to look. When the sun changes so does the family. Ursula finally figures out what is wrong with Amaranta and is sorry for outcasting Rebeca. Pilar says that old age is more keen than the cards. When Ursula tries to see she just bumps into things and gets in the way. There are more new comers in Macondo. Fernanda bans JAS from the house but he still come back later. AS stays with Petra because Fernanda is to much for him. AS has parties all the time and becomes fat. CAB burns remedios' dolls because of the moths and Ursula says his heart is made of stone. Meme invites the nuns and schoolgirls to the house and it become chaotic. Fernanda thinks she is barbarian like her father. JAS is no longer a partial memeber of the family. CAB watches the circus just like his childhood then forgets it. He sits by the chesnut tree and dies. Santa Sofia find him with vultures flying away.
Magical Realism:
when Ursula can find things easier while being blind
she can sew, know when the milk was boiled, and knew locations of things, forgetting she was blind. The fact that she can do so much being blind seems like magcal realism.
When AS and the elephant lady eat all day could be M.R because no one can eat for an entire day.
The breeding of the animals was wilder. they were already breeding alot and if it was wilder than that is A LOT of animals.
Reflective blog 12-13
I thought these two chapters were not as interesting as the past ones. They were still really good but not as much WOW. I don't like the fact that the town is becoming more modern and finding new things like the movies and the railroad. I guess it is because all of that just seems like it is taking away all the natural ways of Macondo and bringing in new people and new things. I didn't like Mr. Herbert because after he came a lot of new people and inventions came and that might lead to worse things for Macondo. The new cops make me really mad, like FURIOUS, grrr. I can't believe they cut some kid into pieces just for spilling soda and then killed the boys grandfather. That is worse than disgusting it is inhuman and should not happen at anytime. When CAB told people that him and his sons would kill the gringo's I thought something bad was going to happen and i was right. I was super angry when his sons died, expecially because the people killed them in such harsh ways. I didn't understand what happened to the 17th son that escaped, does he not come into the story anymore? When Remedios the Beauty is lifted to the sky I didn't really expect that, ( well actually i did because Mrs. Blaber gave it away in class.) but i did not expect it to happen like that, with the white sheets. i thought that the sheets symbolized wings of angels, and that maybe Remedios is to beautiful to be human so she was lifted to be an angel. I was suprised that Fernanda only cared about her sheets and not Rememdios.
When all the new peopl come the town gets all crazy and people have sex in the street. that is gross! just because there is a lot of things going on in town doesn't mean you get to do that, it is so disrespectful. I feel bad for Ursula because she doesn't want to tell her family that she's blind just becasue she doesn't want them to think she is useless. I like how she realizes more things when she is blind, that may represent that when you don't try to hard to see things you can understand it better. I was happy that it finally shows what is wrong with Amaranta and why she rejects men.
I was really annoyed when Meme brought the nuns and schoolgirls, i don't know why but I think it is because if they were in my house i'd be pissed.
I dislike Fernanda A LOT, she thinks she can take control of the house. I understand why Aureliano doesn't stay with her, but i don't like Petra Cotes either. I dont like anyone in that love triangle. Why does mud always show up in the text with blood. there is the number three a lot in this book. CAB seriously has no heart, but i still feel bad for him. when he see's that he made 17 fishes I thought that they symbolized his 17 sons. He died next to where his father rests.
When all the new peopl come the town gets all crazy and people have sex in the street. that is gross! just because there is a lot of things going on in town doesn't mean you get to do that, it is so disrespectful. I feel bad for Ursula because she doesn't want to tell her family that she's blind just becasue she doesn't want them to think she is useless. I like how she realizes more things when she is blind, that may represent that when you don't try to hard to see things you can understand it better. I was happy that it finally shows what is wrong with Amaranta and why she rejects men.
I was really annoyed when Meme brought the nuns and schoolgirls, i don't know why but I think it is because if they were in my house i'd be pissed.
I dislike Fernanda A LOT, she thinks she can take control of the house. I understand why Aureliano doesn't stay with her, but i don't like Petra Cotes either. I dont like anyone in that love triangle. Why does mud always show up in the text with blood. there is the number three a lot in this book. CAB seriously has no heart, but i still feel bad for him. when he see's that he made 17 fishes I thought that they symbolized his 17 sons. He died next to where his father rests.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Active Reading for chapters 7-11
Theme: the theme in this could be the repitition and fate, how they are destined to repeat history.
Plot Summary:
chapter seven- The war ended in the beginning of this chapter and CAB comes home.
He is condemned to death and his mother visits him in jail and they catch up on everything and brings him a gun. When CAB is about to get shot his brother Jose Arcadio saves him.
Sofia had twins five months, after Arcadio was killed, named Jose Arcadio segundo and Aureliano Segundo. Soon Jose Arcadio was Shot in his bedroom while Rebeca was locked in her bathroom. Blood traveled all the wasy the the Buendia house and to Ursula. After washing his body three times they burried him and the smell of gun powder still lingered. Rebeca begins to keep herself hidden in her home and rarely comes out. Gerineldo Marquez declares his love for Amaranta but she rejects him. CAB has a premonition the JAB is going to die and soon enough he does.
Chapter 8- Aureliano Jose Begins to notice things about Amaranta because he is growing up, He finds himself waking up in her room. The two begin to sleep in the same bed naked and chase eachother to corners of the house. Then she ended it. Aureliano jose leaves went with his father. Visitation dies. There were multipule rumors of the daeth of CAB's death. Macondo has a mayor named Jose Raquel Moncadano. Bruno Crespi marries Amparo Moscote. Remedios recieves the name Remedios the beauty. All of Cabs sons come for a baptism and Ursula gives them the name Aureliano with their mothers last name. Ursula discovers that all her sons are the same. At first the are good but when they grow up they are reckless whith a certain fate.
Captain Aquiles Ricardo Shoots Aureliano Jose wishing it was CAB and died right after the shooting. CAB attacks Macondo.
Chapter 9- Amaranta rejects love repeatidly and locks herself in her room. CAB is not welcome in Moncada's wifes house so his bodygaurd burns it down. Gerineldo Marquez tells CAB he is rotting alive. Six lawyers came and stayed with Ursula. The people that came announced that they were fighting for power. CAB decides he is only fighting for power from now on and signs a document. Gerineldo Marquez is accused of treason and condemned to death. Ursula says that if CAB kills him then he she will drag him out from where he is hiding and kill him with her own hands. she tells him that it is just like he was born with a pigs tail. CAB lets GM go and starts to fight for his own liberation. Ursula feels like CAB is a stranger. The two twins were mirror images of eachother. CAB begins to forget people and things even memories of Remedios are rare and he can not find affection for his mother. Ursula feels like her son is going to die soon and she wants him to remember them. CAB shoots himself but misses his heart and does not die. Ursula fixes the house and invites soldiers in. A guard was found dead under Remedios the beauty's window.
Chapter 10- It begins with a forshadowing of Aureliano on his deathbed remembering seeing his first son. He named him Jose Arcadio and his wife Fernanda agreed. Ursula began to realize the similarities between all the Aureliano's and all the Jose Arcadio's. The twins were a lot a like and they were givin bracelets and dressed in different colors with their initials on them. They would always try to confuse people by switching shirts. Ursula wondered that if in one point in their tricky game they switched and made a mistake and changed forever. If one drank lemonade the other could tell if it needed sugar. When they grew up their differences were easier to see. Aureliano Segundo became interested in Melquides old room and he spent most of his time in their talking to the ghost of Melquides and reading his old books. Jose Arcadio Segundo was fascinated by persecution until he discovered that the people were burried alive. He soon became a cockfighter. A women named Petra cotes was sleeping with both twins and didn't even know. Aureliano believed that she was his luck that made the animal breed. The fact that his mother bothered him about wasting champagne he pasted all his bills onto the house which made it mosque like and threw the rest into the streets. Ursula asked God to make them poor but he gave her the opposite when some men left a plaster saint joseph filled with gold coins. Jose Arcadio Segundo tried to create a boatline then set off on a journey like JAB's. Ursula thinks it is repeating. Men tried so hard to see Remedios the beauty. A man at church would always bring her flowers but she was not interested , she rejects many people. Remedios the beauty was queen for a carnaval and while it was going on strangers ( an intruder queen named Fernanda) came through and started shooting. He took Fernanda to his house where Ursula took care of her Six months later Aureliano Segundo goes to find Fernanda and marries her in Macondo.
Chapter 11- Aureliano Segundo's marriage was almost broken after two months because his photo taken of Petra cotes dressed as the queen. Fernanda left but he succeeded in making her come home. Aureliano did not tell petra cotes that he married. He tried to make petra cotes break by feigning anger. Fernanda's parents treated her as if she were really becoming a queen and spent most their money on her. She had no clue about the war until they took her to Macondo. Ursula thinks that Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda's relationship is a repeat of hers because they did not sleep together for a while. Fernanda is innocent and AS makes fun of her for wearing a night gown. Fernanda begins to take over the house and makes it like her ancestor ways. Every december he father would send a box of something and one December a box came with her father inside. All CAB's sons come to visit for three days and go to church where the Father puts a cross in ashes on their forheards that would not come off. The only son who stayed was Triste who was looking for a house and entered Rebeca's home then was faced to here with a pistol pointing at him. Him and a brother that came back helped fix the house up and she paid them. Triste wants to make a railroad so he leaves for over 8 months and returns with a train and the people of Macondo are shocked and scared by the new Railroad.
Characters:
Captain Aureliano Buendia: Condemned to death, is saved. wants to die, tries to kill himself. has 17 sons, he is cold hearted
Captain Gerineldo Marquez: Accompanied CAB in the final defeat. falls in love with Amaranta
Ursula: over or about 100 years old now a widow and see's the repetition of life as it goes on.
Amaranta: heart breaker, she has guilt and sadness inside of her and can't let go of her past
Don Moscot: lost authority
Jose Arcadio: Saved his brother then get shot in his bedroom
Rebeca: becomes a widow and alienates herself inside her apartment
Pilar: is getting old rarely reads her cards
JAB: Dies
Aureliano Jose: likes amaranta, dies after finding love
Carmelita montiel: love Aurelian Jose
Jose Raquel Moncada: Mayor,
Captain Aquiles Ricardo: shoots Aureliano Jose, dies after
Petra Cotes: Aureliano Segundo's luck for animals. sleeps with both twins.
Aureliano Segundo: one twin, Married to Fernanda but still has Petra.
Jose Arcadio Segundo: Cockfighter goes on a journey like JAB's
Remedios the beauty: most beautiful girl in town hides herself. men try to see her.
17 sons: visit CAB stay for 3 days. one son stays and builds a railroad.
Quotes:
chapter 7
(quote 1 pg132/133) "They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.....and even then the smell could be perceivedon the streets.." no matter how much they wash him his sins or his presents will not go away.
(quote2 pg 135) "Balancing on the edge of the suprises of a war with no future.." The war was destined to fail and it was from the beginning that it was not going to get them anywhere.
Chapter 8
(quote1 pg 146) " He created an atmosphere of confidence that made people think of the war as an absurd dream.." If the people forget it will probably repeat because when there is no knowledge than things turn out bad and they just happen all over again.
(quote2 pg 152) "They're all the same..at first they behave..and as soon as their beards appear they go into ruins." when the Buendia boys grow up they always cause chaos or do things that disapoint Ursula, it is a repitition of the Buendia fate.
Chapter 9
(quote 1 pg 161) "Colonel Gerineldo Marquez was the first to perceive the emptiness of the war."
The emptiness of the war could mean there was no passion behind it, that they were fighting for nothing. fighting for something that only leads to failure.
(quote 2 pg165) "you're rotting alive." This could represent not only the rotting of CAB's heart but the rotting of Macondo. Macondo is rotting alive because it is falling apart and everything bad is happening but it isn't completely gone yet.
Chapter 10
(quote 1 pg188) "although she was already one hundred years old...had determined the downfall of their line." At one hundred she figures out the downfall. it hasn't been one years of solitude yet but her being onehundred could relate to the title.
(quote 2 pg193) "it's as if time had turned around and we were at the beginning again." Ursula see's that everything is repeating and she feels like she has seen it all before. this is a motif of repitition.
Chapter 11
(quote 1 pg222) "This innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to macondo." this forshadows that the train is going to bring bad and good things to Macondo. It kind of represents the men of Macondo how they are innocent but then bring ruin and also good, and new things to Macondo.
(quote 2 pg211/212) "The doors of the house, wide open from dawn until bedtime, were closed ..and in the end they were closed for good." The Buendia house had open doors which could represent opportunities or being welcome. Now that they are closed that could mean closed opportunities or that there is no more welcome.
Plot Summary:
chapter seven- The war ended in the beginning of this chapter and CAB comes home.
He is condemned to death and his mother visits him in jail and they catch up on everything and brings him a gun. When CAB is about to get shot his brother Jose Arcadio saves him.
Sofia had twins five months, after Arcadio was killed, named Jose Arcadio segundo and Aureliano Segundo. Soon Jose Arcadio was Shot in his bedroom while Rebeca was locked in her bathroom. Blood traveled all the wasy the the Buendia house and to Ursula. After washing his body three times they burried him and the smell of gun powder still lingered. Rebeca begins to keep herself hidden in her home and rarely comes out. Gerineldo Marquez declares his love for Amaranta but she rejects him. CAB has a premonition the JAB is going to die and soon enough he does.
Chapter 8- Aureliano Jose Begins to notice things about Amaranta because he is growing up, He finds himself waking up in her room. The two begin to sleep in the same bed naked and chase eachother to corners of the house. Then she ended it. Aureliano jose leaves went with his father. Visitation dies. There were multipule rumors of the daeth of CAB's death. Macondo has a mayor named Jose Raquel Moncadano. Bruno Crespi marries Amparo Moscote. Remedios recieves the name Remedios the beauty. All of Cabs sons come for a baptism and Ursula gives them the name Aureliano with their mothers last name. Ursula discovers that all her sons are the same. At first the are good but when they grow up they are reckless whith a certain fate.
Captain Aquiles Ricardo Shoots Aureliano Jose wishing it was CAB and died right after the shooting. CAB attacks Macondo.
Chapter 9- Amaranta rejects love repeatidly and locks herself in her room. CAB is not welcome in Moncada's wifes house so his bodygaurd burns it down. Gerineldo Marquez tells CAB he is rotting alive. Six lawyers came and stayed with Ursula. The people that came announced that they were fighting for power. CAB decides he is only fighting for power from now on and signs a document. Gerineldo Marquez is accused of treason and condemned to death. Ursula says that if CAB kills him then he she will drag him out from where he is hiding and kill him with her own hands. she tells him that it is just like he was born with a pigs tail. CAB lets GM go and starts to fight for his own liberation. Ursula feels like CAB is a stranger. The two twins were mirror images of eachother. CAB begins to forget people and things even memories of Remedios are rare and he can not find affection for his mother. Ursula feels like her son is going to die soon and she wants him to remember them. CAB shoots himself but misses his heart and does not die. Ursula fixes the house and invites soldiers in. A guard was found dead under Remedios the beauty's window.
Chapter 10- It begins with a forshadowing of Aureliano on his deathbed remembering seeing his first son. He named him Jose Arcadio and his wife Fernanda agreed. Ursula began to realize the similarities between all the Aureliano's and all the Jose Arcadio's. The twins were a lot a like and they were givin bracelets and dressed in different colors with their initials on them. They would always try to confuse people by switching shirts. Ursula wondered that if in one point in their tricky game they switched and made a mistake and changed forever. If one drank lemonade the other could tell if it needed sugar. When they grew up their differences were easier to see. Aureliano Segundo became interested in Melquides old room and he spent most of his time in their talking to the ghost of Melquides and reading his old books. Jose Arcadio Segundo was fascinated by persecution until he discovered that the people were burried alive. He soon became a cockfighter. A women named Petra cotes was sleeping with both twins and didn't even know. Aureliano believed that she was his luck that made the animal breed. The fact that his mother bothered him about wasting champagne he pasted all his bills onto the house which made it mosque like and threw the rest into the streets. Ursula asked God to make them poor but he gave her the opposite when some men left a plaster saint joseph filled with gold coins. Jose Arcadio Segundo tried to create a boatline then set off on a journey like JAB's. Ursula thinks it is repeating. Men tried so hard to see Remedios the beauty. A man at church would always bring her flowers but she was not interested , she rejects many people. Remedios the beauty was queen for a carnaval and while it was going on strangers ( an intruder queen named Fernanda) came through and started shooting. He took Fernanda to his house where Ursula took care of her Six months later Aureliano Segundo goes to find Fernanda and marries her in Macondo.
Chapter 11- Aureliano Segundo's marriage was almost broken after two months because his photo taken of Petra cotes dressed as the queen. Fernanda left but he succeeded in making her come home. Aureliano did not tell petra cotes that he married. He tried to make petra cotes break by feigning anger. Fernanda's parents treated her as if she were really becoming a queen and spent most their money on her. She had no clue about the war until they took her to Macondo. Ursula thinks that Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda's relationship is a repeat of hers because they did not sleep together for a while. Fernanda is innocent and AS makes fun of her for wearing a night gown. Fernanda begins to take over the house and makes it like her ancestor ways. Every december he father would send a box of something and one December a box came with her father inside. All CAB's sons come to visit for three days and go to church where the Father puts a cross in ashes on their forheards that would not come off. The only son who stayed was Triste who was looking for a house and entered Rebeca's home then was faced to here with a pistol pointing at him. Him and a brother that came back helped fix the house up and she paid them. Triste wants to make a railroad so he leaves for over 8 months and returns with a train and the people of Macondo are shocked and scared by the new Railroad.
Characters:
Captain Aureliano Buendia: Condemned to death, is saved. wants to die, tries to kill himself. has 17 sons, he is cold hearted
Captain Gerineldo Marquez: Accompanied CAB in the final defeat. falls in love with Amaranta
Ursula: over or about 100 years old now a widow and see's the repetition of life as it goes on.
Amaranta: heart breaker, she has guilt and sadness inside of her and can't let go of her past
Don Moscot: lost authority
Jose Arcadio: Saved his brother then get shot in his bedroom
Rebeca: becomes a widow and alienates herself inside her apartment
Pilar: is getting old rarely reads her cards
JAB: Dies
Aureliano Jose: likes amaranta, dies after finding love
Carmelita montiel: love Aurelian Jose
Jose Raquel Moncada: Mayor,
Captain Aquiles Ricardo: shoots Aureliano Jose, dies after
Petra Cotes: Aureliano Segundo's luck for animals. sleeps with both twins.
Aureliano Segundo: one twin, Married to Fernanda but still has Petra.
Jose Arcadio Segundo: Cockfighter goes on a journey like JAB's
Remedios the beauty: most beautiful girl in town hides herself. men try to see her.
17 sons: visit CAB stay for 3 days. one son stays and builds a railroad.
Quotes:
chapter 7
(quote 1 pg132/133) "They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade.....and even then the smell could be perceivedon the streets.." no matter how much they wash him his sins or his presents will not go away.
(quote2 pg 135) "Balancing on the edge of the suprises of a war with no future.." The war was destined to fail and it was from the beginning that it was not going to get them anywhere.
Chapter 8
(quote1 pg 146) " He created an atmosphere of confidence that made people think of the war as an absurd dream.." If the people forget it will probably repeat because when there is no knowledge than things turn out bad and they just happen all over again.
(quote2 pg 152) "They're all the same..at first they behave..and as soon as their beards appear they go into ruins." when the Buendia boys grow up they always cause chaos or do things that disapoint Ursula, it is a repitition of the Buendia fate.
Chapter 9
(quote 1 pg 161) "Colonel Gerineldo Marquez was the first to perceive the emptiness of the war."
The emptiness of the war could mean there was no passion behind it, that they were fighting for nothing. fighting for something that only leads to failure.
(quote 2 pg165) "you're rotting alive." This could represent not only the rotting of CAB's heart but the rotting of Macondo. Macondo is rotting alive because it is falling apart and everything bad is happening but it isn't completely gone yet.
Chapter 10
(quote 1 pg188) "although she was already one hundred years old...had determined the downfall of their line." At one hundred she figures out the downfall. it hasn't been one years of solitude yet but her being onehundred could relate to the title.
(quote 2 pg193) "it's as if time had turned around and we were at the beginning again." Ursula see's that everything is repeating and she feels like she has seen it all before. this is a motif of repitition.
Chapter 11
(quote 1 pg222) "This innocent yellow train that was to bring so many ambiguities and certainties so many pleasant and unpleasant moments, so many changes, calamities, and feelings of nostalgia to macondo." this forshadows that the train is going to bring bad and good things to Macondo. It kind of represents the men of Macondo how they are innocent but then bring ruin and also good, and new things to Macondo.
(quote 2 pg211/212) "The doors of the house, wide open from dawn until bedtime, were closed ..and in the end they were closed for good." The Buendia house had open doors which could represent opportunities or being welcome. Now that they are closed that could mean closed opportunities or that there is no more welcome.
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