-Jose Arcadio Buendia seems like a man who ever learns from his mistakes.
-Jose Arcadio Buendia had become in a way a mad scientist, often rejected by many due to their prejudices or because he had failed. Even with him saying “the Earth is round like an orange” people rejected him. It’s almost like the way Christ started out, often rejected. For the record, I would have not used the Christ analogy but I’m trying to implement How to Read Literature like a Professor.
-The village, especially Ursula, does not like gypsies and their knowledge. It seems as if they’re afraid of what they don’t understand.
-Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia’s relationship is similar to that of Romeo and Juliet’s because it is seen as taboo, because they are cousins.
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-Jose Segundo leads a protest but then the police force kills almost everyone, Jose Segundo survived. The soldiers track him to the house, but do not find him.
-Like his ancestor he loses his sanity in study.
-Tragedy strikes town, it beings to rain for five years. Banana plantations are swept away. Fernanda picks on her husband, who then loses his temper by breaking things in the house.
-Ursula, now even older, attempts to fix up the house. A heat wave strikes the town and becomes deserted. Aureliano Segundo sends his daughter to Europe for schooling.
-Auerliano spends time in Melquiades’ study, and tries to decipher the “prophecies”. Coming home to an empty house, Jose Arcadio II comes back to Macondo. He finds gold that Ursula hid, and eventually is murdered by Aureliano II for the gold.
-Amaranta Ursula brings home her husband Gaston from Europe, without knowledge of what Macondo has gone through. The Buendias are no longer well known, as they were in the village’s founding. While Gaston is busy wanting to start things up in the town (a mail service), Aureliano II tells Amaranta that he loves her; she loves him