Active Reading for chapters 3-6

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.