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.
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