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.
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