Plot Summery: Entering chapter three Pilar Gives birth to her son Arcadio, and does not tell him his true identity. A girl appears at the door of the Buendia's home and is taken in by them, her name is Rebeca. The family soon discovers the disease that Rebeca brought with her called insomnia. This disease prevents you from sleep and causes a severe memory loss. The family after their knowledge of the disease still does not give up Rebeca and soon they are all under the insomnia. Later the whole town can no longer sleep and slowly have fading memories. Melquiades returns to life helps with their memory problem. Aureliano was going to take away a women who's mother was selling her night by night to pay off their burnt house but she had gone before he could. Ursula adds on to the house because she sees how her family is growing. The Moscote family moves in and Aureliano falls in love with the 9 year old Remedios. In Chapter four a man named Pietro Crispy comes to assemble a pianola. Rebeca has a secret love with pietro. Aureliano gets drunk and sleeps with Pilar. Amaranta also has a love for pietro and writes him letters that she never sends. A dicision is made that Rebeca would marry Pietro and Aureliano would marry Remedios. Amaranta tells Rebeca the two will not get married even over her dead body. Melquiades dies in a river. Soon JAB goes crazy speaking a different language so they tie him to a tree. In chapter five Aureliano and Remedios get married.A priest comes and tries to teach his ways to the Macondo people. Amaranta does everything she can to postpone her step sisters wedding and eventually goes to extremes, Remedios dies with twins still inside of her. Jose Arcadio comes home and marries Rebeca. Pietro eventually falls in love with Amaranta and asks her to marry him. Aureliano Decides to fight in the war. In Chapter six Aureliano leaves for war and Arcadio goes crazy with power and kills people who go against him. Soon he was over taken by Ursula. Amaranta denies Pietro causing him to kill himself. Arcadio does not know Pilar is him mother so he wants to sleep with her, she sets him up with another women that he falls in love with named Santa Sofia de la piedad. They have a child and one on the way, he decided right before his death to give them the names of their grandparents and maybe also Remedios.
Magical Realism: In chapter 5 it shows that Jose Arcadio's ship killed a sea dragon in the Gulf of Bengal and seen ghosts and masts on a ship chewed by sea worms. i dont think there are sea dragons that could be killed by a ship. and i don't think there are such thing as sea worms, and if there were could they eat parts of a ship?
Theme: The theme could be change and the beginning of disaster and/or the falling of love.
Characters:
Jose Arcadio Buendia- Recently goes crazy and starts speaking Latin, he gets tied to a tree.
Ursula- Sees the change in her kids and builds onto the house, diowns a few of her children
Aureliano- Falls in love with Remedios and get married
Remedios- Marries Aureliano after Puberty, Dies from poinson
Moscote family- Move into the town and try to change them
Melquiades-comes back to life, finds immortality and then dies.
Amaranta- A buendia who attempts to end a wedding because of her love for Pietro
Pietro- a Pianola man who loves Rebeca first then loves Amaranta. Kills himself after rejection.
Rebeca- falls in love with pietro but leaves him for Jose Arcadio
Jose Arcadio- Returns home a huge man with tattoos and marries rebeca
Arcadio- Goes crazy with power and then has it taken away, loves a girl named Santa Sofia..
Santa Sofia- Has the children of Arcadio
Aureliano Jose- Son of Aureliano by pilar Ternera not much in the story yet.
Quotes:
Ch.3
(Pg 39 ) " It was also Jose Arcadio Buendia who decided ...they should plant almond trees....Many years later, when Macondo was a field of wooden houses with zinc roofs, the broken and dusty almond trees still stood on the oldest streets , although no one knew who had planted them." This quote shows that in time the people in Macondo will forget who JAB was and maybe his entire family.
(pg 55) "They say he's an authority sent by the government." The town was new they had nothing to judge but the government is sending people in to help. This shows a sign that things are going to go badly soon after.
Ch.4
(pg 68) "Love is a disease." this quote may be a symbol of all the deaths that accured in the chapters because a person dies in some point in a relationship after they find love. (ex:Remedios, Arcadio, Pietro..)
(pg 78) "ten men were needed to get him down, fourteen to tie him up, twenty to drag him out to the chesnt tree in the courtyard, where they left him tied up..." The people of Macondo are tying up the founder of the town..this could represent the bad times to come to the small town.
ch.p 5
(pg86) " She had died three days later." This could represent the death of innocence. Jesus raised from the dead three days after he died on the cross, an innocent man. In the book Remedios died 3 days after she woke up soaked in a hot broth that exploded from her insides and she was an innocent girl.
(pg 100) " a 6 pm curfew was established"giving curfew it shows that the new people want power because usually it is the people in charge who put a curfew for others who are beneath them.
ch.6
(pg 109) "i wouldn't marry you even if i were dead." Amaranta goes from willing to die to end a wedding to have pietro to telling him she wouldn't marry him even if she were dead. She could be playing hard to get or maybe it goes along with the saying..you always want what you can't have, and now that she has him she doesn't want him.
(pg 105) "he had become the crulest ruler that Macondo had ever known." Macondo has not really had a ruler and he is some what the first so they may not have a ruler worse than him in the future.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Reflective blog for chapters 3-6 :D
After leaving chapters one and two i picked up OHYOS and began to read chapter three, telling myself it would in fact get better. As i slowly turned each page i slowly developed i liking for the book. yes, some things were odd but the text became less confusing and more of a story than an explanation of history.
Pilar's son was born, Arcadio, and i guess that it is good he doesn't know his identity, but again it is bad because the feelings he begins to desire for pilar later on in chapter six.
The Moscote family annoys be just because things begin to get bad when they come into town.
When Aureliano starts to like the nine year old girl, remedios, i think that is disgusting. he is a pedophile. Then also i felt sad when she had to die expecially when she was going to have children.
A girl named rebeca came to live with them and she had a disease called insomnia, i never really admired her character because all she brought was somewhat pain and illness. I mean if she never came maybe Remedios would not have had to die. It seemed like JAB liked Rebeca more than his own daughter Amaranta which would explain the anger Amaranta has for Rebeca. Not only does Rebeca recieve more affection from her non biological parents but she also has the heart of the man that Amaranta loves. Which brings me to my next point, why does Amaranta not marry Pietro crispy after he falls in love with her? She finally wins his heart but she rejects it. She plays hard to get and makes him kill himself. Melquiades came back to life in the begining/middle of chapter three and i was excited because everyone thought he was dead and they had lost their memories so they did not know who he was. in these four chapters so much happens it's kind of hard to take it all in. Aureliano goes to war, Arcadio goes mad with power has a child and one on the way and eventually dies, Remedios dies, Jose Arcadio comes home and marries Rebeca, JAB goes crazy, and the peacful like of Maconda changes in the matter of pages.
i like how much goes on because it keeps you locked on the book but it also drags on and somewhat gets boring.
It's funny how Arcadio says to name his child if a girl Ursula like her grandmother and if the next child is a boy to be named Jose Arcadio, not like his uncle but his grandfather. this is humurous because ursula and JAB are actually thr great grandparents of his children and he is their grandson. and the childrens uncle, Jose Arcadio is actually their grandfather.
After Aureliano goes to war he has 17 kids that all die.. how sad and kind of gross that he sleeps with 17 women, but i guess that is what happens in war. I believe this is were the solitude begins.
it is so sad people are dying right after they find love, and that is what Arcadio, pietro, Remedios, and Melquides all have in common, they find something important and then they die.
Pilar's son was born, Arcadio, and i guess that it is good he doesn't know his identity, but again it is bad because the feelings he begins to desire for pilar later on in chapter six.
The Moscote family annoys be just because things begin to get bad when they come into town.
When Aureliano starts to like the nine year old girl, remedios, i think that is disgusting. he is a pedophile. Then also i felt sad when she had to die expecially when she was going to have children.
A girl named rebeca came to live with them and she had a disease called insomnia, i never really admired her character because all she brought was somewhat pain and illness. I mean if she never came maybe Remedios would not have had to die. It seemed like JAB liked Rebeca more than his own daughter Amaranta which would explain the anger Amaranta has for Rebeca. Not only does Rebeca recieve more affection from her non biological parents but she also has the heart of the man that Amaranta loves. Which brings me to my next point, why does Amaranta not marry Pietro crispy after he falls in love with her? She finally wins his heart but she rejects it. She plays hard to get and makes him kill himself. Melquiades came back to life in the begining/middle of chapter three and i was excited because everyone thought he was dead and they had lost their memories so they did not know who he was. in these four chapters so much happens it's kind of hard to take it all in. Aureliano goes to war, Arcadio goes mad with power has a child and one on the way and eventually dies, Remedios dies, Jose Arcadio comes home and marries Rebeca, JAB goes crazy, and the peacful like of Maconda changes in the matter of pages.
i like how much goes on because it keeps you locked on the book but it also drags on and somewhat gets boring.
It's funny how Arcadio says to name his child if a girl Ursula like her grandmother and if the next child is a boy to be named Jose Arcadio, not like his uncle but his grandfather. this is humurous because ursula and JAB are actually thr great grandparents of his children and he is their grandson. and the childrens uncle, Jose Arcadio is actually their grandfather.
After Aureliano goes to war he has 17 kids that all die.. how sad and kind of gross that he sleeps with 17 women, but i guess that is what happens in war. I believe this is were the solitude begins.
it is so sad people are dying right after they find love, and that is what Arcadio, pietro, Remedios, and Melquides all have in common, they find something important and then they die.
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Active Reading blog for chapters 1-2
Plot Summary- Chapter one of One Hundred Years Of Solitude Presents the imperceptible size of Macondo and how recent the town is. Even though Macondo was lacking names, causing you to point for indication, they knew that every year during March the gypsies came to show off inventions. a Gypsy named Melquiades, Jose Acardio Buendia, and his wife Ursula are introduced in this chapter. Jose Acardio Buendia begins to show an obsession towards the gypsies discoveries and his wife does not approve. You can begin to see the father son relation ship in chapter one but it also carries on to chapter two. During the second chapter it reveals why they left their old home to find Macondo. The story carries on with the pregnancy of a girl named pilar and the run away of Jose Acardio. Ursula leaves to search for her son and discovers a different civilization. In this chapter you meet Aureliano, Pilar Ternera, and Jose Acardio.
Quote ch1 pg( 11) "The ground became soft and damp...the vegetation was thicker and thicker, and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad." This quote could be showing what could be to come. The constant "became" and words such as more and more, and thicker and thicker lets us know that things are beginning to get worse. This could be an over view of what will come later on in the book. one hundred years seems like eternity ..so that relates to the "eternal sadness."
Quote ch1 pg(11)"a path between wild orange trees." I thought that the orange trees might symbolize the world, so this phrase is showing that the world can be a wild place and there are so many paths you can take in you own life. It can also means that there are so many different worlds in just the one world we have, and the things going on between the various places are wild.
Quote ch2 (35) "If you don't fear God, fear him through the metals" This quote could mean that if you are not afraid of God than you should fear what he can do through magic.
Quote ch2 (24) "One morning...they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range." This quote shows us that it was morning when they first found the slopes of the mountain range. It also shows that no other human has seen it before because they were the first.
Jose Arcadio Buendia - Husband of Ursula and Father of two sons and married to Ursula. After the gypsies come he is overtaken by their discoveries and finds his interest in alchemy.
Ursula Iguaran - Wife of JAB and mother of two sons. Dislikes her husbands obsession with alchemy.
Jose Arcadio - Ursula's first son is born on the journey. He runs away with gypsies.
Jose Aureliano was the second son of Ursula. He discovers a intuition for alchemy. He finds out about love from his older brother.
Pilar Ternera - She is in love with Jose Arcadio and he causes her to become pregnant. she was raped and heart broken.
Quote ch1 pg( 11) "The ground became soft and damp...the vegetation was thicker and thicker, and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad." This quote could be showing what could be to come. The constant "became" and words such as more and more, and thicker and thicker lets us know that things are beginning to get worse. This could be an over view of what will come later on in the book. one hundred years seems like eternity ..so that relates to the "eternal sadness."
Quote ch1 pg(11)"a path between wild orange trees." I thought that the orange trees might symbolize the world, so this phrase is showing that the world can be a wild place and there are so many paths you can take in you own life. It can also means that there are so many different worlds in just the one world we have, and the things going on between the various places are wild.
Quote ch2 (35) "If you don't fear God, fear him through the metals" This quote could mean that if you are not afraid of God than you should fear what he can do through magic.
Quote ch2 (24) "One morning...they became the first mortals to see the western slopes of the mountain range." This quote shows us that it was morning when they first found the slopes of the mountain range. It also shows that no other human has seen it before because they were the first.
Jose Arcadio Buendia - Husband of Ursula and Father of two sons and married to Ursula. After the gypsies come he is overtaken by their discoveries and finds his interest in alchemy.
Ursula Iguaran - Wife of JAB and mother of two sons. Dislikes her husbands obsession with alchemy.
Jose Arcadio - Ursula's first son is born on the journey. He runs away with gypsies.
Jose Aureliano was the second son of Ursula. He discovers a intuition for alchemy. He finds out about love from his older brother.
Pilar Ternera - She is in love with Jose Arcadio and he causes her to become pregnant. she was raped and heart broken.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Reflective blog Chapters 1-2 :]
During the entire first chapter I had a hard time understanding what was going on because the story kept jumping back and forth to different times. The names are confusing and some are just variations of another name. There is a lot going on in such a short amount of chapters so I think that made me drift off the pages a bit at some points.
The Gypsies annoy me for some reason. maybe it's because they sell things, kinda like telemarketers and or peddlers trying to sell to naive' people. Gyp does mean to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.
It's weird how cousins can get married. Incest creeps me out. I guess the kid with the pig tail shows that when you commit incest your children may pay the price. Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia did not have sexual relations for a year because the fear of having weird children. They were lucky to have three normal looking children.
I'm beginnging to wonder why they named it One Hundred Years of Solitude, i felt like reading the first chapter took one hundred years, and I was alone reading it. hmmm makes me think. 100 years, but whose years are they..Macondo? Ursula? Jose Arcadio Buendia? His sons? Their family tree? The Gypsies? Who does the one hundred years belong too?
Ursula giving birth on the jurney could be a sign of new and great beginnings. If the son represents the start of their new lives than maybe their son leaving in chapter two represents bad endings. If he was the start him leaving could forshadow an end.
At one point Jose(Father) discovers for himself that the world is round like an orange and no one really believes him. People already knew the world was round. Macondo must be so off in isolation since they don't know anything. This means they can be ripped off by the gypsies who may pretend things are amazing discoveries , yet they are old and useless toys
Why is the guys name prudencio? If "prudence" means good judgment, but he assumes to much about Ursula's and Jose's marriage and judges them causing him to get hurt. I don't get why he didn't die either, he was stabbed in the throught wasn't he? Then again the synonym for prudence is foresightedness which is looking forward. Prudencio is the reason they leave their home and journey "forward" towards a new land.
Why did He name the town Macondo? Mac means fellow; or like an unknown name. So maybe he named it that because it's a far off place and some people don't even know of it.
The Gypsies annoy me for some reason. maybe it's because they sell things, kinda like telemarketers and or peddlers trying to sell to naive' people. Gyp does mean to defraud or rob by some sharp practice; swindle; cheat.
It's weird how cousins can get married. Incest creeps me out. I guess the kid with the pig tail shows that when you commit incest your children may pay the price. Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia did not have sexual relations for a year because the fear of having weird children. They were lucky to have three normal looking children.
I'm beginnging to wonder why they named it One Hundred Years of Solitude, i felt like reading the first chapter took one hundred years, and I was alone reading it. hmmm makes me think. 100 years, but whose years are they..Macondo? Ursula? Jose Arcadio Buendia? His sons? Their family tree? The Gypsies? Who does the one hundred years belong too?
Ursula giving birth on the jurney could be a sign of new and great beginnings. If the son represents the start of their new lives than maybe their son leaving in chapter two represents bad endings. If he was the start him leaving could forshadow an end.
At one point Jose(Father) discovers for himself that the world is round like an orange and no one really believes him. People already knew the world was round. Macondo must be so off in isolation since they don't know anything. This means they can be ripped off by the gypsies who may pretend things are amazing discoveries , yet they are old and useless toys
Why is the guys name prudencio? If "prudence" means good judgment, but he assumes to much about Ursula's and Jose's marriage and judges them causing him to get hurt. I don't get why he didn't die either, he was stabbed in the throught wasn't he? Then again the synonym for prudence is foresightedness which is looking forward. Prudencio is the reason they leave their home and journey "forward" towards a new land.
Why did He name the town Macondo? Mac means fellow; or like an unknown name. So maybe he named it that because it's a far off place and some people don't even know of it.
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