Chapter 3 summery: We are first introduced to the third generation of the Buendias, Arcadio, JAs son. JABs tragic flaw is to run away from his problems instead of accepting or solving them. Instead of accepting his new grandson he chooses to ignore it and keep Arcadios true identity a secret. With the discovery of a new route that leads to other neighboring villages JAB is inspired to improve his own village. Aureliano, JABs younger son, however takes over the abandoned laboratory. The audience is also introduced to another character, Rebeca Buendia. Adopted into the Buendia family, Rebeca adapts to a new way of life with the Buendias. The disease, insomnia, that Rebeca carries with her soon infects the Buendia family and the entire village. The symptoms of insomnia prevents the victim from sleep and causes severe memory loss. Under this spell, Melquiades helps the village with their memory problems. Aureliano falls in love with nine year old Remedios when the Moscote family moves in.
Summery for Chapter 4- Rebeca Buendia and Amaranta secretly falls in love with Pietro Crispya young, blond, handsome, well mannered man. Aureliano gets drunk and sleeps with Pilar, JAs old girlfriend. Rebeca and Pietro decide to get married but Amaranta does not want them to. Melquiades drowns in a river and dies. Aureliano decides to marry Remedios, the little nine year old girl he fell in love with. JAB is tied to a tree because he loses his sanity by speaking a different language.
Chapter 5 Summery: Aureliano and Remedios are betrothed and Remedios gets pregnant with twins.A christian priest comes into the Macondo village and tries to convert and teach the Macondans his religion. Amaranta desperately tries to prevent Rebecas wedding because she is in love with Pietro. Remedios dies with her two unborn twins still inside of her. Pietro falls in love with Amaranta and decides to propose to her instead. JA finally comes back home and marries Rebeca.
Chapter 6 Summery: Aureliano decides and leaves for war. Ursula takes in her grandson, Arcadio, because he becomes crazy and kills anyone who are against him. Arcadio wants to sleep with Ursula, but he doesn't know that she is his grandmother. To prevent Arcadios mixed feelings she introduces him to Santa Sofia de la Piedad. They fall in love and get married and also have a son. Pietro because Amaranta denies him.
Magical Realism: In the midst of all of the drama of every day lives stories of ghosts, sea worms, and sea dragons portray the element of Magical Realism.
Quotes
"You can see that we still don't have any cemetery." (56) Because Macondo does not have a dead body under the ground they don't belong to the land, meaning they could leave anytime they wanted.
"Love is a disease."(68) symbolizes all of the pain and death love has created in relationships. Amaranta and Pietro.
"i wouldn't marry you even if i were dead."(109) In the beginning Amaranta would rather die than Rebeca marry Pietro ironically she now wouldn't marry him even if she were dead. The epigraph 'The greatest riches aren't as good as they seem' applies to this.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Reflective Blog
According to the back of this novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature on this novel. We have just started reading this book and I have learned so far that it has a very interesting style of writing. I have been introduced to Magical Realism and to the theme of repetition. There are many great recommendations towards this book, and it is even in the Oprahs Book Club. Yet, I still wonder what is so great about this novel. Does it have an important lesson to be taught to the world? Does it have anything to do with us, as people, American citizen?
One thing I am for sure of is that it has a certain mystery to it. I am instantly attracted to it and am curious about its nature. By the first chapter, already I want to know, what is this author trying to say? What will become of this new found village? Anything that is new can not withstand the evils of today. This new village is so pure that no one has died yet and everyone is still under the age of thirty.
Already I see the allusion Marquez creates towards the myth of Pandoras box. Like in the myth Pandoras world is so new and pure, until she opens the box that unleashes everything bad and evil upon her world. Is this the same fate of Macondo?
One thing I am for sure of is that it has a certain mystery to it. I am instantly attracted to it and am curious about its nature. By the first chapter, already I want to know, what is this author trying to say? What will become of this new found village? Anything that is new can not withstand the evils of today. This new village is so pure that no one has died yet and everyone is still under the age of thirty.
Already I see the allusion Marquez creates towards the myth of Pandoras box. Like in the myth Pandoras world is so new and pure, until she opens the box that unleashes everything bad and evil upon her world. Is this the same fate of Macondo?
Active Reading Blog for Chapters 1-2
Macondo a village so new and "recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point".
Chapter 1 Summery- Innocent of the contraptions and wonders of the world beyond, the Macondans are enticed by the treasures the gypsies introduce. The arrival of gypsies spark the attention of Jose Arcadio Buendia. These new inventions of the modern world inspire JAB to educate himself with these tools and possibly look for a way out of his primitive village. However ,his wife, Ursula rationalizes their leaving a home they had just built,the importance of their sons and their need of a father.
Chapter 2 Summery- JAB and the other villagers are forced to leave their original village because of a restless soul JAB had murdered. Macondos birth was not planned but rather founded after an exhausted attempt to find a better place worth building a village. Ursula bears her first son who falls in love with a Gypsies, despite his father JABs forbidding, and runs away with her. Ursula desperately tries to find her son and stumbles on the path JABs tried so hard to find. A way out of his primitive village.
Chapter 1 Quote-"If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself! But don't try to put your gypsy ideas into the heads of the children." This portrays Ursulas personality as very rational and highlights her very womaly characterisitc: a protective mother. This also highlights JABs character as very lazy, and of his neglect of his children now that he is to busy with all of his experiments.
Chapter 2 Quote- "Congratulations!" Prudencio Aguilar shouts "maybe that rooster of yours can do your wife a favor!" Struck by anger JAB goes home to fetch his spear and latter comes back and murders Prudencio. All epic heroes have a major flaw, JABs is his quick temper.
Magical Realism- "Ursula went out into the courtyard to get some water and she saw Prudencio Aguilar by the water jar. He was livid, a sad expression on his face, trying to cover up the hole in his throat." This is an example of Magical Realism, here we have Ursula going outside fetch some water and she sees in the courtyard the ghost of Prudencio.
Jose Arcadio Buedia- Educates his sons about everything he knows. Math, reading, writing etc.
Chapter 1 Summery- Innocent of the contraptions and wonders of the world beyond, the Macondans are enticed by the treasures the gypsies introduce. The arrival of gypsies spark the attention of Jose Arcadio Buendia. These new inventions of the modern world inspire JAB to educate himself with these tools and possibly look for a way out of his primitive village. However ,his wife, Ursula rationalizes their leaving a home they had just built,the importance of their sons and their need of a father.
Chapter 2 Summery- JAB and the other villagers are forced to leave their original village because of a restless soul JAB had murdered. Macondos birth was not planned but rather founded after an exhausted attempt to find a better place worth building a village. Ursula bears her first son who falls in love with a Gypsies, despite his father JABs forbidding, and runs away with her. Ursula desperately tries to find her son and stumbles on the path JABs tried so hard to find. A way out of his primitive village.
Chapter 1 Quote-"If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself! But don't try to put your gypsy ideas into the heads of the children." This portrays Ursulas personality as very rational and highlights her very womaly characterisitc: a protective mother. This also highlights JABs character as very lazy, and of his neglect of his children now that he is to busy with all of his experiments.
Chapter 2 Quote- "Congratulations!" Prudencio Aguilar shouts "maybe that rooster of yours can do your wife a favor!" Struck by anger JAB goes home to fetch his spear and latter comes back and murders Prudencio. All epic heroes have a major flaw, JABs is his quick temper.
Magical Realism- "Ursula went out into the courtyard to get some water and she saw Prudencio Aguilar by the water jar. He was livid, a sad expression on his face, trying to cover up the hole in his throat." This is an example of Magical Realism, here we have Ursula going outside fetch some water and she sees in the courtyard the ghost of Prudencio.
Jose Arcadio Buedia- Educates his sons about everything he knows. Math, reading, writing etc.
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