Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan: In Their Shoes:
Role Playing
Teachers' Names: Ms. Murphy & Mrs. Goodlow-Walker
Grade: Grade 11-12
Subject: Literature Activities
Goals:1. Students will learn to go beyond the text to find the subliminal messages or underlying meanings of the author who portrays his/her characters.
2. Students will come to understand why a certain character made the decision they did in a particular event in the novel.
3. Students get the chance to experience the type of pressure or feelings that the character may have had by being placed in the same predicament of the scene, to act it out either in accordance to what was already done or in a way they believe would have been more appropriate for the given factors i.e. time period, environment, consequences, etc.
Objectives:
1. Pupils will be assigned a given character after being placed in groups.
2. After five - ten minutes of researching they will choose a passage from the novel that includes their character to analyze and reenact.
3. Students will be given 15 minutes afterwards to decide whether what actually took place was what was best for the character first and then for those who were affected as well.
4. Each group will present their views and motives as evidence and then act out their incident.
Materials:
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Knowledge after it being read)
2. Notebook and Pen3. Thinking Caps and an Imagination : )
Introduction:
1. Get into groups of threes or fours.
2. Assign tasks after a character is given to evaluate e.g. the searcher - one who finds the text, the writer - one who jots down notes for the presentation, and finally the leader - one who designates parts in the revision of the occurrence, keeps everyone on task making sure the duties are completed, introduces the group and the process/steps taken for them to draw their conclusions.
Development:
1. After everyone has their jobs, the group together, though inputting individual thoughts, gathers information from prior information known and the book itself.
2. A passage is then chosen with relevance to a subject that may touch on a theme that, in the group’s eyes, made the character act the way they did.
Practice:
1. Reasons are written for why that passage was picked and why the group agreed or disagreed with what was done.
Independent Practice:
1. A plan is drawn up of how to approach applying the implications from the critiquing of the segment selected.
Accommodations:
1. Make sure that things are the way you all want them to be and that the general idea will come across.Checking For Understanding:1. Give a brief background of the character so the class can maybe get an idea of why the character made the decision they did and why you all feel it was right or wrong.
Closure:
1. Act out your presentation with enthusiasm and heart as if it were your life story and not the character themselves so your audience can feel, learn and experience the journey with you.
2. Concise synopsis is given, then questions can be asked by your peers and then you all can finally take a bow after a day of hard work and a job well done.
Evaluation:
1. The students will have met the criteria for their determined topic of portraying the character in their natural (agreed) or supposed (disagreed) light. They will be graded at this point consistent with the passage chosen, the thoroughness of the scrutinizing of the character, proof of what was learned, and quality of presentation (acting).Teacher Reflections:Students will be commended for their efforts and given pointers and suggestions on how to approach assignments such as this in relevance to the work studied for the time being.

Lesson Plan

Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Date: March 28, 2007
Grade: 12th
Teacher(s): Miss L. Murphy and Mrs. N. Goodlow- Walker

Content:
This lesson contains a different way of learning. The crossword puzzle is being utilized with hints based off characters and other aspects of the story. This process is a more fun way of learning about details in the novel instead of being dispassionate about the novel through reading.

Overview:
This crossword puzzle can be beneficial in the future because it highlights details of the novel that may be present in a future quiz or test.

Goals:
The main goal is to help prepare the students to comprehend the story and pass the overall assignment dealing with the novel to the best of their ability.
Standards: The quality of the work should be done with diligence and effort. All that is required of the student is to research the answers in the book and note if the student has read the book will not be necessary.

Objectives:
(1) Be able to comprehend complex literature.
(2) The ability to utilize the information they have learned and apply the concepts to other literature to make the text simpler.
(3) To prepare the student for college level reading.
Materials:
One Hundred Years of Solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pen (Blue or Black) or Pencil

Procedure:
First, the worksheet is to be handed out and the students are allowed to use their books. (Even though, it is preferable for the student not to use the book because they are suppose to know the material.)

Teacher Reflection:



Evaluation:

Lesson Plan : Lesson PLan

Teacher Name:
Ms. Murphy & Ms. Goodlow

Grade:
Grade 11-12

Subject:
Literature Activities

Content:
This lesson contains a conventional way of learning. The conventional process of teaching through technology. The students have the ability to read major details on the story that may be helpful in passing the quiz or test.

Goals:
The main goal is to help the student prepare for exams and aid with study skills.
Objectives:
(1)Be able to understand and comprehend Literature. (2)Encourage Reading by highlighting major details.

Materials:
Computer with web access
One Hundred Years of Solitude Book

Introduction:
The procedure is simple, the student will go online to the blog called V-solitudelp.blogspots.com and the details will be on the site, including discussion questions, activities, and maybe even quizzes that the teacher may or may not decide to post.

Evaluation:



Teacher Reflections:

Annotated Bibliography

Lee, Margaret. One Hundred Years of Solitude. May 12, 1998.
March 26, 2007 www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/9181/main.html

This website is very helpful because it gives me a general idea of the different types of solitudes that are present in the book. Even though, there is not a lot of information present on the site, it is enough for me to narrow my topic from Solitude into the "solitude of power, madness, silence, or death" that is present throughout the story and gives me a general idea of the topic that I prefer doing the most.

Knopf, Alfred A. (c) 2003. Themes of Solitude. a division of Random House Inc
March30,2007.<http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/oyos/novel/oyos_novel_themes.jhtml>

This website helped me in numerous ways because it gives me a general idea of the solitude that is present in this section that helps me out big time with that topic that I have chosen to my research project. The site only has a little information so it can only help you out so much. I would not recommend this chapter to a person whose doing a big 8 to 10 page paper that we are doing.

<http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=4361>

Lesson Plans
Anonymous.©1998-2007.Lesson Plans. Teachnology, Inc.
March27,2007 < http://www.teach-nology.com/lessons/lsn_pln_create_lessons.php>

This website was extremely helpful with creating my lesson plans. It was excellent in explaining how to create one. This site is really great as have previously said andI recommend it to everyone who does it. I rarely used but when I did I enjoyed it or you would say I enjoy being that I have never had enough time to use the website due technological problems with my home computer and not enough time on the school computer.

Anonymous.(C) 1998-2007. Crossword Puzzle Maker. Teachnology,Inc.
March 21,2007<http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/crossword/>

Now this website was very difficult to use at first and then it became very simple. I did not understand the concept of how to do or number the words in the puzzle but it later proved beneficial. I was able to create a crossword puzzle that helped students understand themes and characters as well as make the reading lesson more exciting.

Dialogue Journal

From Kiesha:"D" I actually like your blog and how you've orgnaized it. You were very accurate in depicting the book and your information was right on point. Even though this book is not better than Song of Solomon, it wasn't that bad. It was bogus how the whole town was just erased off the face of the earth with no trace of life ever existing.

From Drea: Kiesh Pie, Thanks alot! I'm glad that my blog seems to be good and all. But it's funny cause I strive because of what kind of work you do. And I don't want to be bad or lazy, but someone like you. I think that it is simply ironic how they just erase the town away from ever existing. It must of happened because of all the insane things that were doing. Solitude can sometimes cause a person to go and commit violent things like totally destroying a town. And sometimes you think what would happen if my town were burnt down to the ground and told that we never were here.
From Kiesha: But you know how Amaranta Ursula had a husband and Aureliano had that friend who went out of town; wouldn't they remember the town existence and come back to the town eventually and realize the change just like Amaranta Ursula did. So how can the town be erased off the face of the earth with no known of existence. It was also bogus how the families died, the only people who died naturally was Ursula and Rebeca, the rest died tragically pretty much.

From Steff: I am jumping in the Dialogue journal with you, d, and maybe genesis okay??? well okay. You have no choice.. hahAnd guess what!??!? You always have something to say about everything.. especially this book. But look over my web page, and comment.. and i will get back to you.But your page is really good, your information is well placed, and i like the effort a lot.. so keep up the work as we dwindle down in this project!!!Love ya sweets!

From Kiesha: Whats up Steff! I guess I will allow you in the dialogue conversation with us... So what did you think of the book?... I thought the book was okay... I really didn't have no particular favorite part in the book. It didn't really excite me,you know! Reading this book was more hard and depressing than our regional game in basketball. I think after this I am done with reading books for life.


From Drea: KEESH!!!!I think that even though they know where the town is, maybe they don't want to go back to the place that has harmed their family with so many issues. Everything seemed to go wrong or crazy when they were there and they possibly could not want that anymore. Even the fact that maybe it was written in the history of the family, is a cause for them to not want to go back. Tragically dying has to be the worst and not the best feeling in the world. And I think that it was fate to go there!"D"

From Steffie: Hey Keesh---- Well yeah, the book was okay i guess, but nothing was more depressing than the Regional game. And even though the book had a real whack ending, it was not all that bad to read. Spark notes you know helped it along. And i do not think that you shouldn't read books anymore. Some books are really really good!!! And sometimes you just have to deal with the bad ones. So just be happy it is over, and this project is almost over with too. So no worries, and we got you.Love ya much peaches!

Active Reading

.~ Chapter One ~ 3/5/07

• Magic Realism

*Gypsies are a magical element that bring Jose Arcadio Buendia technology that leads him to become admired with gold and elements

*Magical Irons were instruments that pulled things like magnets. It was able to pull things that were lost for many years. This is something that is impossible because there is no such thing as a magical iron that is used as a magnet.

*Melquiades is the gypsy who survives a lot of things and also he has supernatural powers.

*Aureliano is able to predict things before they happen and so far in the chapter he has not been wrong.

*a hen who laid a hundred golden eggs to the sound of a tambourine ; this is something that is impossible because a hen can not lay golden eggs and they will definitely not lay them to the sound of a tambourine

*a trained monkey who read minds ; this is impossible as well because you can trained a monkey but you can not trained them to read minds which is something humans have yet to accomplish or prove to occur.

*multiple-use machine that could be used at the same time to sew on buttons and reduce fevers

*jugglers with six arms

• Characters

*Jose Arcadio Buendia has an "unbridled imagination that goes beyond the genius of nature, miracles, and magic. He is stubborn when it comes to purchasing or trading things when he has his mind set on it but is a kind of youthful patriarch that gave advice on raising kids and animals. He was a very helpful person who collaborated with everyone and was becoming the most enterprising in the village. But now in the chapter since the gypsy has made him become focus on alchemy he became lazy in his appearance and so forth.

*Ursula Iguaran is the wife and cousin of Jose Arcadio Buendio. She tries to change his mind when he trades their animals and her inherited gold for worthless gizmos . She is known as active, small, severe, and a woman of unbreakable nerves.

*Melquiades is a gypsy that survived diseases and disasters across the globe, he is very intelligent and is a friend of Jose Arcadio Buendia. Ursula dislikes him because she believes he is the cause of his madness.

• Summary

*In this chapter, Marquez starts the book off with a reminisce of Melquiades, a gypsy, coming into town with a lot of magnificent inventions. The inventions led Jose Arcadio Buendia to become obsess with making new inventions and so forth. The chapter describes how JAB begins to isolate himself from his family and community to focus on his work. The people of Macondo finally finds out that the earth is round. Melquiades backs JAB up when he discovers that stating that the notion has been previously proved and they should be proud to have someone of his intellect in their village. This leads him to the recollection of him discovering of Macondo when he was younger and how nobody is over thirty and no one has died. Later, in the chapter, JAB finds out about the death of Melquiades but stops thinking about it when he sees a large piece of ice that he believes is the greatest invention ever.

• Quotes

*"The earth is round, like an orange" this is a quote I chose because this quote shows how the people are so far behind in the knowledge of the world that they still did not know that the earth was round.

* " That was the way he always was, alien to the existence of his sons, partly because he considered childhood as a period of mental insufficiency, partly because he was always too absorbed in his fantastic speculations." This quote shows how much Jose Arcadio Buendia really valued the importance of family since he's become obsess with alchemy.

• Themes

*Discovery" This would involve JAB discovering Macondo and the earth being round

*Loss of Reality" JAB loses his sense of reality when he becomes in depth in his work.

*Solitude" This is when JAB locks himself in the laboratory and works with no sense of what's going on around him.

~Chapter Two~ March 7th, 2007

• Magic Realism

*Prudencia Aguilar is the ghost that returns and hunts the family repeatedly until they leaves.

*Ursula's cousin was born with a pig's tail due to what they believe is incest.

• Characters

*Ursula has a big fear of her kids being born with animal parts because of sleeping with her cousin, Jose Arcadio Buendia.

*Aureliano had begin to take a similar interest in alchemy just like his father, Jose Arcadio Buendia. He longs to feel the same passion his brother feels and is lonely after he leaves with the gypsies.

*Jose Aracadio is not really interests in alchemy and is having a secret love affair with Pilar but when he finds out that she's pregnant; he sleeps with a gypsy girl and leaves.

*Pilar Ternera is the fortune lady he gets pregnant by Jose Arcadio.

*Amaranta is born in this chapter. She is the daughter of Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran.

• Summary

In this chapter, Marquez informs the reader that JAB and Ursula are cousins and they do not consummate their marriage until a year and a half later and it didn't happen until JAB kills a man and threatens his wife to make love with him. Ursula and JAB begins seeing visions of the man he kills and decides to leave the town so that the ghost may rest in peace. Ursula haves her first son, Jose Arcadio, and after two years of traveling they found Macondo. The chapter later distinguishes more differences between Aureliano and Jose Aradio such as their interests in Alchemy. Ursula ,who just recently birth Armanta, sees Arcadio naked and has a lady who does fortune to read his palms. The lady, Pilar Ternera, and Jose Arcadio begins to sleep around secretly until she gets pregnant. Jose Arcadio leaves her, sleeps with a gypsy girl and leaves town. Ursula leaves town in search of Jose Arcadio but does not find hi instead she discovers a town a town her husband could not find.

• Quotes

*"She thought that his disproportionate size was something as unnatural as her cousin's tail" Ursula thought her son was unnatural because he was unusually BIG in a certain area and she believed that it was a curse of incest.

*...her stomach corrupted by monkey meat and snake stew..." This was what Ursula ate while she was pregnant with Jose Arcadio and it gives kind of an insight that he is and brute like man.

• Themes

*Incest Motif is a main theme that starts in this chapter with Ursula and her mother fear of having kids with animal body parts.

~Chapter Three~

• Magic Realism

*Plague of Insomnia is something that is unusual because it has not been heard of for people not being able to fall asleep and passing it on to others.

*Melquiades is an example of magic realism because he comes back to life and goes to Macondo with a potion that cured the memory loss from the insomnia.

• Character Development

*Pilar Ternera has the baby but is pushed away because of the animosity between her and Aureliano.

*Ursula is a very enterprising woman in the village and is beginning to expand the village as well.

*Rebeca is an orphan girl who appears through message and is supposedly a cousin to them. they accept her and she is supposed to be the cause of the insomnia.

*Jose Arcadio Jr. (Arcadio) was born and moves in with the Buendia family in this chapter.

*Melquiades who is suppose to be dead comes back to Macondo

*Francisco of Man is a man whose 200 years old and travels through the town to report news that villagers pay to have him find out.

• Summary

In this chapter, a little girl name Rebeca comes to town and she is declared by a letter as a distant cousin of the Buendias through a letter sent with her. After breaking the orphan of her bad habits they decide to take her under their wing and even give them their last name. Rebeca later starts the plague of insomnia which causes memory loss. The insomnia spread like wildfire through the town and their memory loss was so bad they to put tags with descriptions so that they wouldn't forget what items were and their usage.The insomnia is cured when Melquiades returns to Macondo with a potion that cured their memory loss. Ursula recognizes that the house they live in is too small for them and decides to get a mansion built. A man called Don Apolinar Moscote comes out of nowhere declaring rank from a government and declares that they have to paint their house blue. JAB goes over to straighten things out with them when he brings his family to the town. He reminds that as long as he doesn't try to be a dictator he can stay. This is when 36 year old Aureliano begins to fall in love with 9 year old Remedios Moscote.

• Quotes

*"Rebeca was so rebellious and strong in spite of her frailness that they had to tie her up like a calf to make her swallow the medicine and they could barely keep back her kicks or bear up under the strange hieroglyphics that her bites and spitting, and that, according to what the scandalized Indians said were the vilest obscenities that one could ever imagine in their language." This quote lets people know despite appearance, skinny people are strong and I can relate to being strong despite my skinniness. Page 53

*"Several months later saw the return of Francisco the Man, an ancient vagabond who was almost two hundred years old and who frequently passed through Macondo distributing songs that he composed himself."This is amazing because the man travels through harsh conditions and he is still alive and is 200 years old which is an age that is impossible to reach in this day in age. Page 55

• Themes

* Biblical can be a theme because the plague in a reference to exodus and the infamous seven plagues occur in this chapter.

~Chapter Four~

• Magic Realism

*Pietro Crespi because he is said to be a fairy by his appearance.

• Character Development

*Rebeca is an adolescent now and she is described to beautiful. She is in love with the guy who taught them how to play piano whose name is Pietro Crespi. When he leaves she becomes depressed and starts her bad habits of eating whitewall and dirt.

*Amaranta is jealous of Rebeca and Pietro when they get engaged.

*Arcadio is older and attractive and a lot of women are becoming interested in him.

*Melquiades is the first to die in Macondo.

*Jose Arcadio Buendia is tied to a tree to be kept from going crazy.

*Aureliano vows to marry to Remedios Moscote, the daughter of Don Apolinar Moscote.

• Summary

*In this chapter, Aureliano sleeps with his brother's baby Mama, Pilar Ternera. Amaranta and Rebeca both have crushes on Pietro Crespi, a man who came to tune the piano and teach the girls how to dance. Rebeca begins to fall in love with him and when he leaves she goes back to her bad habits of eating whitewall and dirt to try to get away from the pain. Aureliano is blinded by love for the little Remedios, he pictures her in everything that he does and even begins to write poetry on his love. He desolates his work to become close to her when she is over their house. Pilar Ternera becomes pregnant with Aureliano's baby but he does not care because he so happy to be in love with Remedios. JAB becomes delirious and starts envisioning the ghost of a man he killed years ago. He is tied to a tree until he comes from being delusional.

• Quotes

*"Rebeca waited for her love at four in the afternoon, embroidering by the window." This quote is talking about how she would wait by the window for the mail to come; so she could receive a letter for her dear love, Pietro Crespi. Page 72

*" One of the women, withered and with goldwork on her teeth, gave Aureliano a caress that made him shudder; he rejected her." Aureliano is so in love with Remedios that he doesn't respond to any girl sexually and that everything he does consist of him thinking about her. Page 73

• Themes

*Death because it finally reaches Macondo when Melquiades passes on. Also, it represents the ending of a close relationship between Amaranta and Rebeca as well as the death of Aurelaino annoyance and uninterests in women.

*Love is a major theme in this chapter with the love between Remedios and Aureliano; and the love between Rebeca and Pietro Crespi.

*Envy is another theme present in this book and is displayed with Amaranta envious attitude to Rebeca for becoming engaged to Pietro.

~Chapter Five~

• Magic Realism

*Father Nicanor because he is able to levitate six inches off the ground which is something miraculous because the only people who levitate are magicians and that is only through illusion.

• Character Development

*Aureliano is very happy and nervous in the beginning of the chapter; he's excited because he is getting married to his love, Remedios. Towards the end of the chapter he has changed a lot and is having a hard time dealing with the death of his wife.

*Remedios is the newlywed wife of Aureliano. Her family is suprised about how much she matures when she reaches puberty and is proven to maintain as the book says "the calm nature that she would have in the face of adverse circumstances... ."Page 88 Dies mysteriously said to be through miscarriage of the twins she was pregnant with. She took care of everything in the house and brought calamity. She wilingly took care of the son between her husband and Pilar Ternera.

*Amaranta is very conniving and will not give up on ruining the wedding of her play sister and her crush, Pietro. She thinks that she is behind the death of Remedios and vows not to do anything to rebeca anymore.

*Pietro Crespi begins to become impatient with the constant postponement of the wedding between him and Rebeca; so when she leave him for Jose Arcadio, he is heartbroken but stays modest not breaking his ordianry routines with the Buendias. He laters asks Amaranta's hand in marriage.

*Jose Arcadio finally returns back to Macondo; he is describe as being more "beastly".He had "square shoulders that barely fitted through doorways, a bison neck, and his arms that were covered with cryptic tattooing..." Page 97

*Aureliano Jose is the son of Aureliano and Pilar Ternera. He is taken in by his stepmom, Remedios.

• Summary

*In this chapter, Remedios and Aureliano gets married. Remedios proves to be really responsible and mature for age by maintaining the house, takng care of Jose Arcadio Buendia, and keeping peace between Amaranta and Rebeca. Amaranta is still determine to prevent the marriage of Rebeca and Pietro. She tries to prevent the marriage by poisoning Rebeca's coffee but she thinks that Remedios mistakingly drinks the coffee. Even though, it is believed to be a miscarriage due to the pregnancy of the twins. The house leads to a period of mourning and lasts until the time Jose Arcadio finally returns home. When he returns home, he catches the eye of numerous women including Rebeca, his adopted sister. He is said to have miraculous powers that is considered to be great strength that equals the amount of strength of numerous men.He later sleeps with Rebeca and three days later he marries her at the church. Ursula is enraged and kicks them out of the house. Pietro is hurt by the action of Rebeca leaving him for another man but eventually gets engaged with Amaranta. The chapter ends with the betrayal of Don Apolinar Moscote between the Liberals and Conservatives and the chapter eventually ends with a scene of a war with Aureliano going against his father in law.

• Quotes

*"...Amaranta said: 'The luckiest one will be Rebeca.'" this was giving a hint that amaranta was up to something, which was part of her plan of her poastponing the wedding by saying she'll be the luckiest one because she'll be the first to get married in the unfinished church. Page 92

-"...the calm control that Remedios would have in the face of adverse circumstances was revealed." This quote shows that she will be a major part in their family and when she dies she take a little bit of her with them. Page 88

• Themes

*Death plays a role in this chapter through the death of Remedios and the effect her death has on the livelihood on others such as Aureliano.

*Betrayal is when Don Apolinar Moscote cheats in the election and then turns against the town without consent of anybody.

*War is when Aureliano decides that ideas of the conservatives and they take over are wrong; he decides to fight against the injustices.

~Chapter Six~

• Magical Realism

*Colonel Aureliano displays it when he gets shot and he does not have any injuries.

• Character Development

*Arcadio becomes a dictator and tries to kill Don Apolinar Moscote but his grandma threatens him and whoops him.

*Jose Arcadio is killed in this chapter mysteriously, it said to be through assasination or suicide.

*Colonel Aureliano has changed a lot he doesn't even want to be a buendia anymore.

*Ursula is running the house now.

*Rebeca goes crazy after her husband is killed.

• Summary

In this Chapter, Colonel Aureliano come backs from the war and is very respected after bringing down th city of Richocha. While he was gone Arcadio was running the town and leading it to total chaos. He tries to kill Don Apolinar Moscote but his grandma intervenes and takes charge of everything.Amaranta denies Pietro marriage proposal and he kills himself.Arcadio tries to sleep with his mother but she gives him to a girl named Santa Sofia de la Piedad and they later get married and have three kids named Remedios the Beauty, Aureliano Segundo, and Jose Arcadio Segundo. Jose Arcadio is killed.

• Quotes

*"I dare you to, bastard!" This is a funny quote because Arcadio is grown and he is threaten to by his grandma to get a whipping. Page 115

*"He stayed there, exposed to the sun and rain, as if the thongs were unneccessary, for a dominion superior to any visible bond kept him tied to the trunk of the chestnut tree."This quote is howing how JAB is still tied to the tree. Page 117

• Themes

*-War is displayed throughout the chapter.

*Incest Motif is brought back up in the story amongst Arcadio and his mother, Pilar Ternera.

~Chapter Seven~ 3/13/07

• Magic Realism

*"... Kitchen she heard her son's voice clearly in her ear."Page 133

*"This morning, when they brought me in, I had the impression that I had already been through all that before." Page 136

*"A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down steps and climbed over curbs, passed along the Street of Turks, turned a corner to the right and another left, made a right angle at the Buendia house, went in under the closed door, crossed through the parlor, hugging the walls so as not to stain the rugs, went on to the other living room, made a wide curve to avoid the diningroom table, went along the porch with begonias and passed without being seen under Amaranta's chair as she gave an arithmetic lesson to Aureliano Jose, and went through the pantry and came out in the kitchen, where Ursula was getting ready to crack thirty-six eggs to make bread."Page 144-145

*"They found no wound on his body nor could they locate the weapon. Nor was it possible to remove the smell of powder from the corpse... the cemetary still smelled of powder for many years after..." Page 145,146

*"...Seven and a half feet long and four feet wide..." Page 145

*"...It had a dose of nux vomica strong enough to kill a horse." Page148

*"Prudencia Aguilar would come twice a day to chat with him." Page 148

*...a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling." Page 153

• Character Development

*Colonel Aureliano Buendia undergoes a lot of changes throughout chapter. He looked like a beggar with worn clothing,unkempt hair and beard, and he was barefooted his first appearance. He looked paler and taller and his personality was of a soldier who was ready to take his with courage. He still had a lot of premonitions but thought of them as useless.

*Colonel Gerineldo Marquez was the only one to survive all the hardships with CAB and they are very close. He was even considered part of the Buendia family.

*Jose Arcadio protects his brother from execution and then dies mysteriously from an unknown cause.

*JAB dies in this chapter after his son has a premonition that he is going die.

• Summary

*In the beginning of the chapter, Aureliano is captured and is brought to Macondo. He has a long talk about all different issues while in the prison with his mother, Ursula. The town rebels against the army and prolongs the proceeds of the death sentence of Aureliano. The villagers starts yelling prophecies about the people who kill Aureliano will die the same horrible death. When it's time for the execution for Aureliano, Jose Arcadio intervenes and the army and Aureliano flees. Aureliano because an uprise against the conservatives first by taking over Riohacha. Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo, the twins of Sofia and Arcadio, are born. She names the daughter Remedios the Beauty instead of Ursula because she believed that it brought forth too much pain. Aureliano is a very successful military man and at this point has brought down a lot of conservative cities. Jose Arcadio dies in this chapter mysteriously and his body wreaks of gunpowder after he dies for many years. Jose Arcadio Buendia also dies in this chapter after Aureliano sent a message home saying that he would die. When he died, it rained yellow flowers to the point that it smothered animals to death.

• Quotes

*"You knew all along that I was a wizard" This was one of the magical elementa that was kind of intriguing to me because it described Aureliano's gift of being able to see the future before it occurred.Page 136

*"Our time has come." I like this quote because it reminds me of the last book we read, Song of Solomon, and they both have similar meaning of the mark of death.Page 140

• Themes

*Solitude occurs with just about all the characters in the chapter. Amaranta goes into solitude due to the lack of love. Rebeca enters solitude when her husband dies, locking herself into the house.

*Death occurrs with the death of Jose Arcadio Buendia and Jose Arcadio. It also refers to death of the Ursula and Aureliano's Relationship due to the metamorphisis in Aureliano that occurred.

~Chapter Eight~

• Magic Realism

*Blond hair Aureliano is displayed as magical realism because he was supposedly Pietro crespi reincarnated because he knew about a mechanical ballerina in a chest and asks for it saying that it is his.

*Large Aureliano had hands that broke everything he touched.

• Character Development

*Amaranta consistantly denies General Marquez's proposal in marriage. She begins to become more physical intimately with her nephew, Aureliano Jose. She is secretly in love with General Marquez but refuses to get close to him.

*Aureliano Jose is in love with his aunt Amaranta and wants to marry her but she later denies him and he later moves on without being heartbroken.

* Colonel Aureliano Buendia is very different in this chapter, he doesn't trust anybody and doesn't have a real close connection to anyone.

*General Moncada is killed by his supposedly close friend Aureliano Buendia.

*General Marquez doesn't trust Aureliano and is love with Amaranta.

• Summary

*In the beginning of the chapter, amaranta and Aurliano Jose begins to mess around. The love doesn't lasts long because when Ursula almosts walk in on them kissing; amaranta decides to break it off. Aureliano goes to war but comes back to ask his aunt's hand in marriage. Aurelaino flees and Macondo begins to be a prosperous city. Aureliano Jose dies later after his aunt rejects him forever. Later on in the chapter, all 17 of Aureliano's sons come to Ursula to receive a blessing from her. when she asks to keep them, all the mothers deny and decide to keep their sons. Aureliano Buendia returns with a huge army more vicious than ever.

• Quotes

*"I don't care if they're born as armadillos,"Page 163 This is what Aureliano Jose says to his aunt because he doesn't care about incest and he doesn't care about his kids being born deformed. All he know is that he wants to be with his aunt. That is until he see the kids and then he'll be like what was I thinking.

*"...She intended wearing the black bandage on her hand, for she interpreted it as an allusion to her virginity."Page 162 This reminds me of The Scarlet Letter and how when she removed the letter she felt like she was pure rather than when she wore the letter that reminded her that she was an adulteress.

• Themes

*Unrequited Love is between Amaranta and Aureliano Jose because he is in love with her but she does not love him back.

*Solitude is where amaranta ends up after she places a final rejection towards loving anyone intimately.

*Death is the death to Amaranta's intimate life.

~Chapter Nine~

• Magical Realism

*Aureliano Segundo because he has a premonition that a “pot of boiling soup was going to fall off the table, he found her broken to pieces.” It is impossible for a person to literally break in pieces that is why it is classified as magical realism. Page 187-88 Also, when he feels his mom thoughts interrupting his thoughts is another example of magical realism because the idea of mind reading has not yet been proven possible in this modern day. Page 188
*The pot of milk on the stove is an example of magical realism because the milk turns into worms and that is just not possible.
*Jose Arcadio Buendia portrays the idea of magical realism when he returns to the tree in the courtyard soaking in the rain looking older than he had when he had died.

• Character Development

*Colonel Aureliano Buendia begins to lose a sense of reality in the beginning of the chapter. His appearance showed how “he had been mistreated by the rigors of exile, made old by age and oblivion, dirty with sweat and dust, smelling like a herd, ugly, with his left arm in a sling,…”Page 176 He changed a lot during this chapter, there was a point where “he came with no noise, no escort, wrapped in a cloak in spite of the heat…”Page 178He later begins to think about the “privileges of simplicity” and decides to make an attempt to end the war but finds out that it is not that easy. He had a hard time identify in the people of his family were as he vaguely remembered his sister in this chapter. He also tries to commit suicide but is unsuccessful.
*Colonel Gerineldo Marquez is fills with “an emptiness” of the war during the craze of Aureliano and prefers just being with Amaranta in her sewing room in the beginning of the chapter.
*Remedios the beauty is the most beautiful person in Macondo and is thought to be retarded mentally.
*Duke of Marlborough was Aureliano’s right hand man whom wore “attire of tiger claws [that] aroused the respect of adults and the awe of children.” Page 179
*General Teofilo Vargas is “a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation…” Page 180 He was killed two weeks later in an ambush and was cut into many pieces by numerous machetes.
*Ursula is finally looked at by her son who recognizes that “her skin was leathery, her teeth decayed, her hair faded and colorless, and her look frightened.” Page 187

• Summary

*In this chapter, Aureliano begins to lose all sense of reality and even words began to lose their meanings to him. Colonel Marquez felt comfort in staying with Amaranta in her sewing room. She secretly took pleasure of his presence of time and devotion that he spent with her. Amaranta consistently rejected the proposals of marriage for almost four years until she finally gave him the ultimatum which leads to her solitude. Colonel Marquez and Colonel Buendia begin to drift from one another in their relationship as friends. Aureliano changes a lot and rarely spends time to “read the telegraphic dispatches that reported routine operations.” Page 178 He did not read his poetry and placed them in the bottom his trunk to forget about them. Aureliano was filled with a lot of uncertainty. He started to realize that he really didn’t like fighting in wars that much anymore. He comes up with this conclusion when his best friend is sentence to death he decides that it is time to end the war; this was after his mom threaten his life. He gives away all his prized possessions and tried to commit suicide. It was a failure because the place the doctor showed him wasn’t his heart but instead was a spot that would not harm any vital organs. JAB returns to sob with Ursula when she thinks her son is dead. Ursula puts an end to the periods of mourning and gets a makeup and a new wardrobe

• Quotes

*”They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayer book as gifts.” Page 176 This quote is a good quote that Ursula says because she thinks about how man kill the people of God and then profess his love.
*”Many of them did not even know why they were fighting.” Page 179 This quote makes me think about present day and the war in Iraq. It reminds me of the war because most of the soldiers don't in actuality what they are fighting for.

• Themes
  

*Solitude is a major theme in this chapter. Amaranta goes into solitude when locks herself in her room after giving an ultimatum to Colonel Marquez. He later goes into solitude when looks at the “desolate streets…and finds himself lost in solitude”. Page 177 Aureliano becomes lost in solitude with the immense power he has.

~Chapter Ten~

• Magic Realism

*Segundo twins portray magical realism because when one of the boys had lemonade the other would tell their mom its missing sugar which is kind of weird because it has not been a proven fact of the connection between twins. As a matter of fact, it is something that is still a mystery.
*Melquiades’ room because even though nobody entered his room since he died his room was spotless and was the same as the way Melquiades left it.
*Mequiades returns back to the story in this chapter and haves conversations with Aureliano Segundo.

• Character Development

*Aureliano Segundo has his first son on his deathbed and names him after his grandfather and father. He marries a really beautiful later named fernanda Del carpio. He, unlike his brother, grew to a “monumental size” and he “shuddered at the mere idea of witnessing an execution.” Page 199
*Jose Arcadio Segundo was bony in size and begged Colonel Marquez to view an execution. When he saw the execution, he was against the war from the thought of the men being buried alive. He begins to follow under a priest but later returns to his sinful ways when he has intercourse with donkeys.
* Fernanda Del Carpio is the beautiful wife of Aureliano Segundo who Ursula takes in after a massacre occurs in a festival.
*Petra Cotes is the lady Jose Arcadio gives the low-life sickness. She has a relationship with Aureliano Segundo who thinks of her as a good luck charm.
*Remedios the Beauty is the most beautiful woman in Macondo. Every man who sees her face has hard times going to sleep after seeing her beauty.

• Summary

*In this chapter, Aureliano has his first child. The Segundo twins are described as being as really identical when they were younger and grew to be really different. Aureliano Segundo grew up to be an animal breeder who was determined to decipher Melquiades studies and drink wine all day. Jose Arcadio Segundo works under the guidance of a priest but later leave after receiving the low life sickness from sleeping with female donkeys. He resembles his great grandfather’s stubbornness and becomes determine to build a port for ships to come to Macondo. The only ship to arrive to Macondo was the one Jose Arcadio Segundo brought. Remedios the Beauty, their older sister, is the most beautiful woman in Macondo and men die to have one look at her. When they look at her they have hard times falling asleep because the restlessness her presence makes them feel. At the end of the chapter, People let out fire and end up killing a lot of people. Jose Arcadio Segundo rescues Aureliano Segundo and Remedios from the chaos.

• Quotes

*“While the Aurelianos were withdrawn, but lucid minds, the Jose Arcadios were impulsive and enterprising, but they were marked with a tragic sign.” Page 197 This quote is probably best fit under magical realism but I thought it was interesting because that is impossible to remember what your ancestors know because some people don’t remember what they did yesterday.
* “She accepted the yellow rose without the least bit of malice, amused, rather, any the extravagance of the act, and she lifted her shawl to see his face better, not to show hers.” Page 213 I thought that Remedios was bogus because all the men liked her and she didn’t considered any of them.

• Themes

*Plagues of Proliferation are a theme that occurs in this chapter when Aureliano Segundo breeds animals and they begin to multiply to the extremes. This is also a reference to the seven plagues in Exodus when the locus takes over the land. In this chapter the plague of proliferation was is when the animals took over Aureliano’s land.

~Chapter Eleven~
Magical Realism
*“…a yellow plain where the echo repeated one’s thoughts and where anxiety brought on premonitory mirages.” Page 224 This is an example of magical realism because there isn’t a place that echoes your thoughts and so forth.
*Aureliano Centeno still has the power to break things with or without touching them which is impossible because no man is powerful enough to break things by touch.


Character Development
*Aureliano Segundo was “molded… [by Petra into]…an opposite character…, one that was vital, expansive, open, and …with a joy for living and a pleasure in spending and celebrating…”Page 219 He did a well job at balancing out the time he spent with both loves his life.
*Fernanda was born and raised in a city far, far away from Macondo. She had long copper colored hair
*Petra Cotes, Aureliano’s Concubine, molded him into her dream guy and never worried about him going to his wife.
*Don Fernando, the father of Fernanda, “spent most of his time shut up in his study and the few times that he went out he would return to recite the rosary with… [Fernanda].” Page 223
*Amaranta felt uncomfortable with Fernanda around and talked in gibberish so she wouldn’t understand what she was saying.
*Jose Arcadio Segundo was the first to rebel against changes of the simplicity of house made by Fernanda.
*Ursula became completely blind
*Renata Remedios (Meme) was born and was named after her grandmother and late aunt.
*Aureliano Triste, Aureliano Buendia’s son, was “a big mulatto with the drive and explorer’s spirit of his grandfather.” Page 233 He stayed and set up a factory on the edge of town that produces the ice that his grandfather, Jose Arcadio Buendia, dreamed about.
*Aurelianos in general “were all skillful craftsmen, the men of their houses, [and] peace-loving people.” Page 233
*Remedios “was immune to any kind of passionate feelings and much less to those others.” Page 236
*Aureliano Centeno stayed with his brother and was described as being of average height and marked with small pox scars.

Summary
* This chapter describes the relationships between Aureliano, Fernanda, his wife, and Petra, his concubine. Fernanda is about to leave because of the disrespect towards by her husband until he chases her down and pleas for her to return. After Aureliano married Fernanda, he went back to Petra as soon as their honeymoon was over. This chapter gets more in depth of the life of Fernanda and her family. Her father, Don Fernando, would sell things so his daughter could have fine things. Her family placed the idea that she was going to be queen and her classmates believed it as well “because she was already the most beautiful, distinguished, and discreet girl they had ever seen.” Page 223 She eventually realized as she got older that her parents’ dream was fictional and that they kept it “hidden from her for many years.” Page 223 When Aureliano and Fernanda married they could not consummate their marriage because of the calendar that markings of her “Venereal abstinence…not counting Holy Week, Sundays, holy days of obligations, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments…” Page 224 Amaranta couldn’t stand the uppity nesses Fernanda and would speak in gibberish around her to disguise the things she was saying about her. She finally told Fernanda what she was saying about her and they stop speaking to each other. Aureliano would make fun of his wife and her father, whom was on his way to becoming a saint. Don Fernando sent a plethora of gifts to his grandkids every Christmas; the last gift he gave them was he in a box dressed in a black suit with a cross and disgusting sores. The 17 sons of Aureliano Buendia return to the house and cause a lot of pleasant disruptions. They all leave, except Aureliano Triste, after receiving their marks for Ash Wednesday which were impossible to remove. When Aureliano Triste search for a house he decides to buy the house of his uncle but comes to find out that Rebeca is still alive in there. The Aurelianos fix up the house and leave her in peace. Aureliano Centeno invents ideas of sherbet and Aureliano Triste brings the train to Macondo.
Quotes
* “Thifisif…ifisif onefos ofosif thofosif whosufu cantantant statantand thefesef smufumellu ofosif therisir owfisown shifisfit.” Page 227 I like this quote because it’s funny. This is the gibberish Amaranta speaks around Fernanda. In this quote she is actually saying something about one of the people who can stand the smell of their own S***.
Themes
*Solitude of Rebeca which has preserved her to live a long life and unaware of the things outside in the real world.
~Chapter Twelve~
Magic Realism
*Jose Arcadio Buendia reappearing and his ghost wandering throughout the house due to all the changes in the town.
Character Development
*Mr. Herbert who was “wearing riding breeches and leggings, a pith helmet and steel rimmed glasses, with topaz eyes and the skin of a thin rooster.” Page 243
*Remedios the Beauty “…,the only one who was immune to the banana plague,…was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world.” Page 248 She was also known as a sign of death to men because any man who fell in love with her died. She is resurrected to the heavens.
*Jose Arcadio II is born and his grandma decides to focus him on his career path to become a pope.
*Aureliano Arcaya’s head was split by a Mauser.
*Aureliano Serrador was shot and knocked into a cauldron of boiling lard.
*Aureliano Triste was shot in the forehead where the cross laid.
*Aureliano Centeno was stabbed with an ice pick in the forehead.

Summary
* There are numerous inventions that arrive in Macondo that changes a lot of things that occur in everyday life in Macondo. All these changes in the town caused JAB to wander through the house. When a man named Mr. Herbert came and fell in love with the bananas in the town he left bringing back numerous of people, whom eventually start a banana factory. Along with the numerous of people he brought with him came immigrants who took over the town. Remedios is the only one who stays grounded during the banana plague and is the one every guy who lays their eyes on fall in love with. She was known as the sign of death because every man who fell in love with her or touched her died. Remedios the Beauty is believed to be resurrected to the heavens when a light begins to pull on the sheets she has and she levitates. Everyone talked of that until the all of Aurelianos get killed except one whose crosses are the way their invisible assassins are able to identify and kill them.
Quotes
*“They stayed up all night looking at the pale electric bulbs fed by the plant that Aureliano Triste had brought…” Page 241 This shows how far behind they are in society because they are just seeing a lamp and light bulb for the first time.
* “They became indignant… for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortunes tears of affliction had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one.” Page 241 This is funny because they don’t understand the concepts of films yet and think that is the magic that the gypsies had.
Themes
*Death of the Aurelianos who were killed by unknown assailant.
*Biblical because of the resurrection of Remedios which is similar to that of Jesus who ascended into heaven in his flesh as well.
~Chapter Thirteen~
Magical Realism
*“…strangers whose bones were still clocing in their grave.” Page 268 This is an element of magical realism because it's not possible for bones to cloc in the grave.
Character Development
*Ursula is learning to use her other four senses without her children learning that she is completely blind. She is one hundred years old and is becoming fat.
*Jose Arcadio Segundo leaves his job of cock fighting and starts working with the banana factory.
*Aureliano Segundo has an eating contest with “The Elephant” and almost dies until his wife helps nurture him back to health.
*Meme was very different from the family and didn’t display any traces of the solitary that her family was eventually doomed with.

Summary
* Meme in this chapter is stuck between impressing her mother and her Aunt Amaranta. Ursula is adapting her four senses she has left, so that her family doesn’t notice that she is going blind. She learns to adapt her senses by learning that everyone in the house utilizes their “same path everyday, the same actions, and almost repeat the same words at the same hour.” Page 265 Aureliano Segundo gets into an eating contest with a lady known as The Elephant and he almost dies from overeating until Fernanda nurses him back to health. Aureliano Buendia stops selling the little gold fishes because they are not known as jewelry anymore but as historic relics. Jose Arcadio Segundo and CAB were so similar that Ursula thought that he and his twin confused their selves in the games they played and got mixed up. He would spend a lot of time with him. The mother of the twins and Remedios never really seemed to exist in the house.
Quotes
* “The years nowadays don’t pass the way the old ones used to.” Page 263
Themes
*Solitude- same as previous chapter
~Chapter Fourteen~
Magic Realism
* Aureliano Triste prediction of Amaranta’s death in which he see her “change[d] into an apparition with leathery skin and a few golden threads on her skull…”Page 298
*Death because it came to tell Amaranta that she was going to die and this is unusual because death is not a person and when it happens its normally unexpected unless it is by suicide in which the victim knows when they are dying because they killed themselves.
Character Development
* Colonel Aureliano Buendia has died.
*Meme is described as being frivolous and having a “slight infantile character” until she play her clavichord. She was not pretty like her aunt but she was “pleasant, uncomplicated, and she had a virtue of making a good impression on people from the first moment.” Page 293
*Amaranta dies.

Summary
* In this chapter, Meme arrives home during the mourning period of her uncle. Aureliano Segundo comes home during the times Meme is home from vacation so that she doesn’t know of the separation. Meme undergoes tasks such as playing the clavichord for the pleasures of her mom, Fernanda. Even though, she enjoys “her happiness… in noisy parties, in gossip about lovers, in prolonged sessions with her girl friends, where they learned to smoke and talk about male business, and where they once got their hands on some cane liquor… [and so forth].”Page 291 Aureliano Segundo got so fat that he could barely tie his shoes. Even though, Fernanda disapproved of most of the things her husband bought for their daughter because it reminded her of a room for a prostitute; she didn’t say much because she was focusing her time with their youngest daughter, Amaranta Ursula, and the invisible doctors. Fernanda kept in frequent contact with Jose Arcadio and discoursing to him discreetly the problems of her health. Amaranta dies suddenly, which shocks everyone because of her good health. Aureliano Triste makes a prediction that Amaranta was going to die before she was going to die. Even death came to tell her that she was going to die and that she should begin to make her burial garment. She tried to prolong it as long as she could so that Rebeca could die before she did. She finally realizes that it was her best bet to finish the garment and when she finish she told everyone that she was going to die at dusk. Everyone came to her so she could send messages to their dead relatives. Meme and Aureliano Segundo didn’t really believe her until Meme her a whisper in her ear about what had happened and stopped her performance and A.S saw his sister discolored in her coffin. Meme falls in love with a man named Mauricio Babilonia who was a mechanic. They would sneak around behind Fernanda’s back because she forbids them to see each other. When she found out about them sneaking around she asked for a guard to be placed in the backyard because she was worried about a chicken thief. Therefore, the next time that Mauricio tried to sneak in to sleep with Meme he was fatally shot in the spinal cord. Fernanda cleans up the bathroom where he died and escorts Meme off to her old town to be a nun without a word to anyone.
Quotes
*“‘He’s a strange man,’ Fernanda said. ‘You can see in his face that he’s going to die.’” Page 309 This quote seems as if she predicted the death of them man before actually doing it.
Themes
*Solitude~ same as the previous chapters

~Chapter Fifteen~
Magical Realism
* The non-stop raining because it's not possible for rain to constantly rain for a long period of time and the town is not flooding that much.
Character Development
*Aureliano is born and is kept in isolation for almost two years by Fernanda before being discovered by the rest of the family.
*Jose Arcadio Segundo he starts a protests but it ends up fatal and he remains in solitude in Melquiades' room.

Summary
* In this chapter, Meme’s illegitimate son by Mauricio was brought to the house. Fernanda, who was ashamed, locked the son whom the nuns named Aureliano into the old silver workshop of CAB. No one knew of the child’s existence until he snuck out of the room onto the porch when Fernanda was bathing. Meme had not spoken since her secret lover was shot executed style in the back. Jose Arcadio Segundo was beginning to rally and protests against the banana company because of the harsh working conditions present there. The people fixed the rebellions by giving the strikers five minutes to end the strike and when they didn’t, they were all shot down and put on a train to be thrown in the sea. J.A.S was also in the crowd but he has passed out and was taken for as dead and thrown on the train as well. When J.A.S snuck off the train and back to Macondo know believed his story.
Quotes
* “‘You bastards!’... ‘take an extra minute and stick it up you’re a**!’” Page 329 This quote is so funny and shows that J.A.S. is not afraid of death as he stands up to the people who are threatening him and his fellow strikers.
Themes
*Solitude~ Same as previous chapters.
~Chapter Sixteen~
Magic Realism
*I found no elements of magical realism in this chapter.
Character Development
* Fernanda beauty was becoming solemn as she grew older.

Summary
* The rain still continued as four years passed on. The streets were beginning to flood as well as the houses; Aureliano had to dig a canal so that house wouldn’t flood and felt compelled to do all the tasks to keep the house intact. Ursula who was nothing but a play toy to her young grandkids were becoming close to death. Aureliano Segundo took him in and accepted him and would take him and his younger daughter, Amaranta Ursula, and show them pictures in the encyclopedia. Fernanda was suffering from an intestinal problem that she kept discussing with her invisible doctors about. When their food began to run out, Fernanda began walking around the house disturbing the peace with her rants of how terrible her life is and how she married the laziest man ever. He got so mad at her that he broke everything that was valuable in a rage. After that he brought her food that would last a long time so she would leave him alone. No one in the house or in the family for that matter could stand her and called her stuck up and all sorts of names. Aureliano went back to Petra and stayed for three months believing that he married “Jonah’s wife”. Ursula was beginning to lose her sense of reality and getting her past confused with the present. A.S lost a lot of weight and was beginning to resemble his twin brother again. It also finally stopped rain and wasn’t expected to rain for another ten years. The town was in ruins and eroded from the continuous rains. Petra begins raffling off animals to bring in a little joy to the town and get more money to repair the damages made by the storms.
Quotes
*“I'm only waiting for the rain to stop in order to die.” Page 345 This is a quote of ursula predicting her death and from some reason it stood out to me; maybe because she was brave and had not fear of knnowing that she was going to die soon.
Themes
*Solitude ~ same as previous chapter.
*Loss of Reality~ same as previous chapters.

~Chapter Seventeen~
Magical Realism
*Ursula’s ability to have conversations with all the Buendias who had died. This is an element of magical realism because it has not really been proven that ghosts exist; so the idea of talking to them is least likely to be held true.
Character Development
*Ursula fixes up the house and then finally dies without her family ever finding out that she is blind.
*Jose Arcadio Segundo, who’s still in solitude, appearance is the most distasteful as his teeth is covered with green slime and he had tangled hair.
*Aureliano is still confine to the house by Fernanda but he doesn’t mind because “prefers the cloister of solitude”. Page 374
*Rebeca dies.


Summary
* Ursula leaves the bed for the first time since her daughter, Amaranta, died and begins fixing up the house. Jose Arcadio Segundo still stayed in the room with the parchments of Melquiades and dared anyone who tried to come in by throwing chamber pots at them. Ursula had him cleaned and shaved and left him alone with noticing that he has a similar fear to CAB when it involves leaving the room. Jose Arcadio was still trying to become a pope and was staying in constant contact with his family. Aureliano Segundo lost 83 pounds and when he returned to Petra, she thought it was his twin brother, Jose Arcadio Segundo. He, Aureliano Segundo, stayed back with his concubine and he helped her with the raffle business. Now, that they have grown with age they were more responsible with the money they spent. They saved up for money to give to Fernanda whom they looked at as a daughter they never had and so forth. Even though the couple grew old their hearts grew more in youth. They were more in love with each other than they had ever been. Ursula bean to have conversations with all the Buendias who had passed on. Ursula dies on Good Friday. The Wandering Jew who is said to be “a cross between a Billy goat and a female heretic” was caught and killed. The people who found it displayed it hanging upside from a tree so everyone could see the creature. Rebeca dies as well in this chapter. Aureliano Segundo begins getting sick and Pilar tells him that it is dark magic that Fernanda has used that has went wrong and caused her to have an internal tumor. However, after he does the counter spell and the cough remains A.S realizes that he is about to die and begins to hustle to get money to send Amaranta Ursula to Brussels. He came up with an idea to sell the vacant houses in the raffle which was supported by the mayor that helped him get enough money to send Amaranta to Brussels. A few months after Amaranta Ursula left, Aureliano Segundo died and his twin brother died at the exact same time that he did. Fernanda didn’t allow Petra to attend the Funeral and when its time to bury the twins, they are mixed up in their graves.
Quotes
* “Time passes” Page 361 This quote remains me of life and that you have to live in the moment because time passes and life is short.
* “…poverty was the servitude of love.” Page 365 I like this quote because you find true love when you're at your ultimate lowest.
Themes
*Solitude
~Chapter Eighteen~
Magic Realism
*The parchments that levitates when the children tries to destroy them.
Character Development
*.Aureliano was still fond of his own solitude but it didn't affect him much. He eventually builds a bond with his uncle, Jose Arcadio.

*Jose Arcadio had an awkward feeling and attraction towards his aunt, Amaranta, and dies drowned in a pool.
Summary
*Aureliano found comfort in the room of Melquaides and read everything so much that he attain the knowledge everything of the medieval times. When he began to become an adolescent he began to favor CAB more than any offspring including his own son Aureliano Jose. Aureliano talked to Melquiades as well as he gave the boy tips on how to decode the manuscripts. Petra still sent food to Fernanda without her knowing it was from her and vowed to continue doing the deed until Fernanda died. By this time, Santa Sofia de la Piedad had been left and was given eleven golden fishes by her Aureliano. Being that Fernanda had no experience in the kitchen, Aureliano took over the kitchen duties. Fernanda dies in this chapter and Jose Arcadio returns, buries his mother, and takes over the house. He still smelled like the toilet water that Ursula used to sprinkle on him when he was younger. When he met Aureliano, he called him a “bastard” and sent him to his room. Aureliano snuck out the house to go to the book store even though he was forbidden by his grandma to leave. Jose Arcadio invited children over to his house they would play there until the day the four older kids stayed there and destroyed the bedroom and he went crazy on them. Jose Arcadio’s friends that he discovered the gold with came back when he was bathing and drown him to death and took the gold. Nevertheless, before that occurred, Aureliano Amador went to the Buendias house to seek refuge but since neither one of the boys knew who he was he was killed execution in his ashes that was more as a target.
Quotes
*“She became human in her solitude.” Page 392 Solitude change people into their opposite behaviors and hers made her have feelings.
Themes
*Solitude~ same as the previous chapter.
*Death~ same as the previous chapter.

~Chapter Nineteen~

Character Development
*Amaranta was “so spontaneous, so emancipated with such a free and modern spirit.” Page 406
*Aureliano falls in love with Amaranta.

Summary
* Amaranta Ursula finally returns with her new husband tied with a leash named Gaston. She came with cheerful spirits and wanted live in the town that she thought was so beautiful. She began fixing up the house and threw away a lot of useless things except for the picture of Remedios. She was almost as beautiful as Remedios the Beauty but had a since of fashion. Aureliano stayed in the same room and study the manuscripts determined to decipher them. Aureliano searched the streets determined to find anyone who remembered his family but it seemed as if no one knew them. Some people thought that CAB was an imaginative character that people made up as an excuse to kill Liberals. Aureliano realized that he had really strong feelings for Amaranta, whom he did not know that she was his aunt. He took refuge in talking with his great great grandmother that he wasn’t aware of. Amaranta took the leash off her husband believing that he would remain honest and faithful. When Aureliano had the chance he told Amaranta of all his fantasies he had about her and she looked at him with disgust. Aureliano forces himself onto Amaranta who tries to refuse but eventually gives in.
Quotes
* “Everything is known” Page 411 I like this quote because i believe that it is true you just how to look for it.
Themes
*Solitude~ same as the previous chapter.
*Love is major in this chapter between Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano.
~Chapter Twenty~
Magic Realism
*Fernanda’s bones trembled with horror in her grave" Page 435 It is impossible for bones to tremble in the grave by themselves.
Character Development
*Aureliano II is born and dies.

*Amaranta Ursula dies from hemorraging during birth.
Summary
* In this chapter, Pilar Ternera dies at the age of approximately between 120 and 145 and is buried sitting in her rocker chair. The wise Catalonian leaves the town and at first enjoys everything but later discourages the five men, including Aureliano, about everything he taught them and tell them to leave Macondo. All of Aureliano’s friends left to different destinations leaving him by himself. He was content with the relationship he had with Amaranta whom he was now involved with. Amaranta was in love with Aureliano so much that she couldn’t live without him. Amaranta and Gaston went their separate ways and she became involved with Aureliano more seriously. They were lost in their solitude and a sense of reality. The couple was expecting a child and they both started thinking about their when they realized that it was a possibility that they were brother and sister. Aureliano looked for information on it but stuck to the story of Fernanda even though it was not possible. They had their first child and named him Aureliano. The child was born with the thing Ursula feared most a pig tail but since they did not know of the curse they did not know what it meant. Amaranta died later from non stop bleeding during child birth. Aureliano becomes extremely depressed he leaves his son there, gets drunk, and confides in an ex lover. When he realizes he left his son somewhere, it’s too late because the baby’s body is carried off by ants. Aureliano is finally able to read the manuscript and learns that it predicted everything that was going to happen to the Buendia family. It predicted that the “first line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants.” Page 446
Quotes
*“…races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.” Page 448 This is the main point and theme of the book.
Themes
*Death of the whole town and its existance.

Reflective Journals

One Hundred Years of Solitude starts off being very confusing. It's semi~interesting compared to Song of Solomon. In the story, there are many characters with similar names that you can read on the geneology tree that I post. This book begins to get a little interesting the second chapter and if you are able to get passed the first chapter, you will be okay. The chapters are a little long but after you get into the story, you will be alright and even though it's not as good as previously read Song of Solomon!

March 17, 2007
The story is starting to get a little better. It's hard to follow through the story because you have to be able to decipher when its past,present , or the future. The story gives a great example of how the story has changed from a modern little vilage to a prosperous town. It's startling how some of the characters change and have become heartless in reference to Aureliano. It's also surprising how Amaranta sleeps with her nephew because that is extremely disgusting. it's no different from Milkman and Hagar who are 2nd generation cousins sleeping with each other in Song Of Solomon.

This is the family tree of the seven generations in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The tree begins with Jose Arcadia Buendia and Ursula Iguaran, which are the first generation that begins the years of solitude. Reviewing the tree, Readers may notice that the names are reoccuring throughout the tree. The names reoccuring throughout the tree are Jose and Aureliano.

Introduction toOne Hundred Years Of Solitude

This picture of the Magic Carpet is representing the Magic realism in the story of One Hundred Years of Solitude.