Reading Actively Chapters 9-10

CHAPTER NINE

Magical Realism: Aureliano is seeing the future and at the same time seeing the past. These occasional flashbacks and predictions are our first aspect of magical realism. As well, Ursula is seeing her dead husband.

Character Development: Our war friends Aureliano and Gerineldo begin to give up on the whole war concept. They begin to do other things but shortly return to their lives of fighting.

Plot Summary

Disappointment fills the air as this chapter shows us that Aureliano and Gerineldo drift away from the war scene and Aureliano starts to exclude himself from worldly things while Gerineldo begins to hang all over Aramanta again even though she treats him like "the third beer". He gets in trouble and then Aureliano begins to regain his fighting mentality. He fights with his people and eventually gets a a truce which he thinks is kind of garbage how it happened. He believes that the government is fishy. Figuring that Aureliano has taken as much negativity as he can take, he tries to shoot himself and luckily he survives. When his mother gets word that he's still alive she tries to clean the house up.

Quotes

1."...As soon as I See his dead body I swear to you by the bones of my father and mother, by the memory of Jose Arcadio Buendia, I swear to you before God that I will drag you out from wherever you're hiding and kill you with my own two hands."- This quote shows us that Ursula is compassionate for other people and treats them as if they were her own.

2. "Put on your shoes and help me get this shitty war over with."- This shows Aureliano's transition from sorry and secluded to aggressive and ready to fight.

Themes

Change- This theme is shown through the way that the two fighters change their attitudes about war repeatedly and as well as how aramanta changes her feelings about men.


CHAPTER TEN

Magical Realism: Aureliano Segundo seeing the ghost of Melaquiades is our first example of magic and this happens in the labratory that Melaquiades gave to the family. Also his twin brother Jose Segundo has sex with donkeys.

Plot Summary

Colonel Aureliano Buendía has gotten away from society by locking himself in his workshop making fish and not talking about politics. Aureliano Segundo begins to get involved with weird things that are still in Melquíades’s laboratory. He often sees Melquíades ghost. José Arcadio Segundo, begins to be more religious. Soon, he becomes a cockfighter and sometimes haves sex with donkeys. The two brothers, who look alike both start sleeping with Petra Cotes who thinks that they are the same man. Twin Jose stops messing with her because of a sickness she gets but Twin Aureliano keeps being with her. They have a strong liking for each other, and something magical causes their animals to be fertile. Soon, Twin Aureliano becomes rich because of his animals and has parties to gloat about it. Twin Jose Segundo tries to make a river passage to the ocean.

Quotes

1. "He spent many hours in the hot room watching how hard sheets of metal, worked by the coloniel ...."- This quotes supports the change in personality that Aureliano undergoes.

2."Make us poor again the way we were when we founded this town..."- This quote shows that something is going wrong and that she is no longer comfortable with being wealthy.

Themes -Triump
All the characters were able to overcome dificult tasks in their desperation for accomplishing their goals and acheivments.