Danit Kargman "Fearing that her stout and willful husband would rape her while she slept, Ursula, before going to bed, would put on a rudimentary kind of drawers that her mother had made out of sailcloth and had reinforced with a system of crisscrossed leather straps and that was closed in the front by a thick iron buckle." This quote displays most of chapter two to me, it shows how Ursula was fearful that her husband would rape her and that she would have to bear the consequences of his actions by having a child without child-like features, such as having an iguana. They say this because they were two healthy people of two races that were going to interbreed, and it is shameful to have not bred a human. This chapter discusses Ursula's fears about breeding with her husband, Jose Arcadio Buendia, as well as the rumors that spread about her and her husband that caused him to kill Prudencio Aguilar. I don't understand how Prudencio Aguilar is still alive, if no one dies, although it seems that his spirit is still alive. Does this mean that he is still alive spirit-wise? I think that it is honorable of Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia to leave water for Prudencio Aguilar at night, and to have slit the throats of his chicken so that Prudencio Aguilar could live in peace there, after him and Ursula moved away.
Throughout chapter two we see all sorts of madness such as; Jose Arcadio (son) becomes a man, the true bloodline of the Buendia/Iguaran family, and Jose running off with the Gypsies. However, the most significant part of the text to me is when Jose Arcadio Buendia’s wife Ursula runs off to find Jose Jr. and ends up finding something crucial to the village in return. When Ursula runs after the gypsies in hopes of retrieving her son she does not return for a great deal of time, leaving Jose and Aureliano to take care of new born baby Amaranta. After this hiatus of a proper mother is over and Ursula finally returns to the village she is dressed different and has brought along a following. This new group of people described with strait hair and dark skin are actually neighbors to Mocondo. They live on the other side of the swamp and are actually in a normal trade/mail route, a place Jose Buendia had been searching for his entire life. Ursula had been trying to find the Gypsies in order to get her son, but found a neighboring village that Jose and the others never thought existed. This is quite unique for this newly discovered village was only a two days walk around the swamp on a particular route, but had never been reached. Similar to the boat that was wrecked miles inland of the sea in the previous chapter, this new development only re emphasizes the theme at this point in the text, you never know what you might find while on a journey for something else.
Macondo is a small town where everything is a cycle and nothing comes out of the daily routines of the village. I think that the thing about the gypsies that attracts Jose Arcadio is that they innovative things to Macondo that eventually will bring a progress eventually to the town but also this is the same thing that Macondo’s population is concerned about. They don’t want a progress, and because Jose Arcadio does want it, people think that he is crazy. His wife, on the other side, is losing all her money that could help their children through life in the Gypsies inventions so Jose Arcadio could work on his crazy inventions that he says that someday these inventions will help them in one way or another. But his wife has different thoughts than his own, she thinks that all these is nonsense and that he is wasting his time doing unproductive things. There are a couple of things in the reading actually that show that Ursula is afraid of his husband; in the first chapter the inventions and in the second one she is afraid of him because he thinks that her husband is going to rape her, which is ridiculous because it’s her husband who we are talking about, they are a couple and they have the rights to conceive a family
In Gabriel Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” we are brought into the lives of the simple yet culturally deep town of Mocondo and its settlers. One member I happen to find extraordinarily interesting would happen to be its unspoken leader, Jose Arcadio Buendia. As a character in the book, he is very ambitious and passionate about what he does. Once he finds something of interest, one hundred percent of his time and effort is put into to it, in hopes of achieving his goal. Why I find this character to be so intriguing is for that exactly, his personality in this book. How can a person credited for building a town from nothing, keeping it stable and healthy, and leading it to such happiness be so out of touch with realistic ideals and priorities? What exactly do I mean? Well every month when the gypsies come in to town he becomes consumed in their latest gadget, despite their warnings against his ideas. He has created a lab at his home where he studies Alchemy or tries to use a magnified glass as a weapon and has amounted to nothing, but a long list of failures. I would figure the leader of a village would be the one with the most common sense and grip on reality. Jose as a character just confuses me. I feel that he has so much more important things to worry about, like the wellbeing of his wife and kids. You wouldn’t want one of them to run off with gypsies now would you? Or is that just it? Are his unrealistic experiments and ideas all he has left? Is that, in his mind, what one day might be his greatest contribution to Mocondo? It’s possible; I guess I’ll just have to keep reading.
The third chapter of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", talks about a new character, Rebeca. Rebeca is a mysterious character, because she does not say much, but rather sits and watches things with her eyes "open wide". The book mentions that she is very aware as to when the bells ring and that she wouldnt eat much for days, and that they were surprised she hadn't starved to death. Rebeca arrives at Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula's house because she is supposedly a relative of theirs, but they don't remember any relatives with the names that they were given. They kept Rebeca anyway. I think that there is something strange about Rebeca's age and how "...she would sit in her small rocker sucking her finger in the most remote corner of the house" Rebeca became rebellious, and soon she had warmed up to Arcadio and Amaranta, and became like their older sister. I just don't understand how the transitions happened, and why Rebeca changed so much so quickly. I feel almost as though Rebeca must still have some of the past characteristics in her.
In chapter 2, when they had they found this completely new village, they didn’t had any desire of finding it, they just did and it was totally unexpected. In life sometimes you are always in the search of something. Maybe when you are young, you are searching for your truly vocation, and you really have the aspiration of knowing what you are going to do in your future with your life. But sometimes when you are following one path, you might end up finding and discovering other things in the way and those things are the ones that will give you the personal experience in your life, and will make you grow as a person.
As it is very known, in this book, the people live in a village that is isolated from everything. In my personal opinion I don’t think that it’s good to live far from society. By living with only a certain number of persons you will always keep your same culture, beliefs, etc. But also you are missing a big part of the world. There is a lot of things in the world outside. A lot of things to learn and live, and by living in that solitude isolated from the world you are missing a big part of “what I believe” that is living. Learning new things from new people and new cultures that you meet new experiences, etc.
In the second and third chapters a lot of things happen, the conception of Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia's kids after a long dilema about pig tailed persons and iguanas as their descendents, but after the whole problem they happen to have 3 kids (Jose Arcadio, Aureliano and Amaranta. Jose Arcadio runs away from Macondo with the gypsies and until now he has no intentions to return leaving with Pilar Ternera his son Arcadio; Ursula also leaves Macondo looking forward to bring back her son. Aureliano is the one who will take care of Amaranta while his mother is away searching for his brother. I think that this book is an expression of the pure reality of the day to day experiences that happened a long time ago. The inventions, people's mentalities, people's reactions to changes and the different circumstances but in this story they represent every decision in the most extreme pole
In the first chapter of the book, Jose Arcadio Buendia is attracted to the new items that the gypsies introduce to the town. Every time the new item is introduced, Jose pays an excessive amount of his asset to achieve the item that is common in the outside world. As a result of his thoughtless spendings, he goes bankrupt. Yet, he is admirable in a way that he is very passionate and he does not give up. Though he wasted his money in some thoughtless ideas, he found out that the earth is round and he tries to go out and explore the world outside his town.
Chapter 1: Jose Arcadio Buendia is a curious man who is the founder of the town. The leader of the gypsies, Melquiades gives him supplies for a scientific study which frustrates Ursula. Jose is driven to explore and find out knowledge about solitude. Joes also wants to learn about civilization and leads this expedition. Jose wants to move to Macondo but is stopped by his wife who doesn’t want to leave. Melquiades is dead but Jose doesn’t lose interest in what he’s trying to do.
Chapter 2: The book in this chapter moves backwards kind of. Jose and his wife Ursula are born in this village. Weird stuff happens like two of their relatives gave birth to a child with a pig’s tail, or Ursula refuses to have sex fearing a deformity of their child. Prudencio who is kind of a rival, is killed by Jose and after, Jose leaves his home. Jose remembers this dream he had of Macondo as a city with mirrored walls. Jose’s son Aureliano , helps Jose, while his older son Jose Arcadio is seduced by a woman named Pilar Ternera who like shim because he has a big penis and she gets pregnant.
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This quote displays most of chapter two to me, it shows how Ursula was fearful that her husband would rape her and that she would have to bear the consequences of his actions by having a child without child-like features, such as having an iguana. They say this because they were two healthy people of two races that were going to interbreed, and it is shameful to have not bred a human. This chapter discusses Ursula's fears about breeding with her husband, Jose Arcadio Buendia, as well as the rumors that spread about her and her husband that caused him to kill Prudencio Aguilar. I don't understand how Prudencio Aguilar is still alive, if no one dies, although it seems that his spirit is still alive. Does this mean that he is still alive spirit-wise? I think that it is honorable of Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia to leave water for Prudencio Aguilar at night, and to have slit the throats of his chicken so that Prudencio Aguilar could live in peace there, after him and Ursula moved away.
Throughout chapter two we see all sorts of madness such as; Jose Arcadio (son) becomes a man, the true bloodline of the Buendia/Iguaran family, and Jose running off with the Gypsies. However, the most significant part of the text to me is when Jose Arcadio Buendia’s wife Ursula runs off to find Jose Jr. and ends up finding something crucial to the village in return. When Ursula runs after the gypsies in hopes of retrieving her son she does not return for a great deal of time, leaving Jose and Aureliano to take care of new born baby Amaranta. After this hiatus of a proper mother is over and Ursula finally returns to the village she is dressed different and has brought along a following. This new group of people described with strait hair and dark skin are actually neighbors to Mocondo. They live on the other side of the swamp and are actually in a normal trade/mail route, a place Jose Buendia had been searching for his entire life. Ursula had been trying to find the Gypsies in order to get her son, but found a neighboring village that Jose and the others never thought existed. This is quite unique for this newly discovered village was only a two days walk around the swamp on a particular route, but had never been reached. Similar to the boat that was wrecked miles inland of the sea in the previous chapter, this new development only re emphasizes the theme at this point in the text, you never know what you might find while on a journey for something else.
ReplyDeleteMacondo is a small town where everything is a cycle and nothing comes out of the daily routines of the village. I think that the thing about the gypsies that attracts Jose Arcadio is that they innovative things to Macondo that eventually will bring a progress eventually to the town but also this is the same thing that Macondo’s population is concerned about. They don’t want a progress, and because Jose Arcadio does want it, people think that he is crazy. His wife, on the other side, is losing all her money that could help their children through life in the Gypsies inventions so Jose Arcadio could work on his crazy inventions that he says that someday these inventions will help them in one way or another. But his wife has different thoughts than his own, she thinks that all these is nonsense and that he is wasting his time doing unproductive things. There are a couple of things in the reading actually that show that Ursula is afraid of his husband; in the first chapter the inventions and in the second one she is afraid of him because he thinks that her husband is going to rape her, which is ridiculous because it’s her husband who we are talking about, they are a couple and they have the rights to conceive a family
ReplyDeleteIn Gabriel Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” we are brought into the lives of the simple yet culturally deep town of Mocondo and its settlers. One member I happen to find extraordinarily interesting would happen to be its unspoken leader, Jose Arcadio Buendia. As a character in the book, he is very ambitious and passionate about what he does. Once he finds something of interest, one hundred percent of his time and effort is put into to it, in hopes of achieving his goal. Why I find this character to be so intriguing is for that exactly, his personality in this book. How can a person credited for building a town from nothing, keeping it stable and healthy, and leading it to such happiness be so out of touch with realistic ideals and priorities? What exactly do I mean? Well every month when the gypsies come in to town he becomes consumed in their latest gadget, despite their warnings against his ideas. He has created a lab at his home where he studies Alchemy or tries to use a magnified glass as a weapon and has amounted to nothing, but a long list of failures. I would figure the leader of a village would be the one with the most common sense and grip on reality. Jose as a character just confuses me. I feel that he has so much more important things to worry about, like the wellbeing of his wife and kids. You wouldn’t want one of them to run off with gypsies now would you? Or is that just it? Are his unrealistic experiments and ideas all he has left? Is that, in his mind, what one day might be his greatest contribution to Mocondo? It’s possible; I guess I’ll just have to keep reading.
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ReplyDeleteThe third chapter of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", talks about a new character, Rebeca. Rebeca is a mysterious character, because she does not say much, but rather sits and watches things with her eyes "open wide". The book mentions that she is very aware as to when the bells ring and that she wouldnt eat much for days, and that they were surprised she hadn't starved to death. Rebeca arrives at Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula's house because she is supposedly a relative of theirs, but they don't remember any relatives with the names that they were given. They kept Rebeca anyway. I think that there is something strange about Rebeca's age and how "...she would sit in her small rocker sucking her finger in the most remote corner of the house" Rebeca became rebellious, and soon she had warmed up to Arcadio and Amaranta, and became like their older sister. I just don't understand how the transitions happened, and why Rebeca changed so much so quickly. I feel almost as though Rebeca must still have some of the past characteristics in her.
ReplyDeleteIn chapter 2, when they had they found this completely new village, they didn’t had any desire of finding it, they just did and it was totally unexpected. In life sometimes you are always in the search of something. Maybe when you are young, you are searching for your truly vocation, and you really have the aspiration of knowing what you are going to do in your future with your life. But sometimes when you are following one path, you might end up finding and discovering other things in the way and those things are the ones that will give you the personal experience in your life, and will make you grow as a person.
ReplyDeleteAs it is very known, in this book, the people live in a village that is isolated from everything. In my personal opinion I don’t think that it’s good to live far from society. By living with only a certain number of persons you will always keep your same culture, beliefs, etc. But also you are missing a big part of the world. There is a lot of things in the world outside. A lot of things to learn and live, and by living in that solitude isolated from the world you are missing a big part of “what I believe” that is living. Learning new things from new people and new cultures that you meet new experiences, etc.
ReplyDeleteIn the second and third chapters a lot of things happen, the conception of Ursula and Jose Arcadio Buendia's kids after a long dilema about pig tailed persons and iguanas as their descendents, but after the whole problem they happen to have 3 kids (Jose Arcadio, Aureliano and Amaranta. Jose Arcadio runs away from Macondo with the gypsies and until now he has no intentions to return leaving with Pilar Ternera his son Arcadio; Ursula also leaves Macondo looking forward to bring back her son. Aureliano is the one who will take care of Amaranta while his mother is away searching for his brother. I think that this book is an expression of the pure reality of the day to day experiences that happened a long time ago. The inventions, people's mentalities, people's reactions to changes and the different circumstances but in this story they represent every decision in the most extreme pole
ReplyDeleteIn the first chapter of the book, Jose Arcadio Buendia is attracted to the new items that the gypsies introduce to the town. Every time the new item is introduced, Jose pays an excessive amount of his asset to achieve the item that is common in the outside world. As a result of his thoughtless spendings, he goes bankrupt. Yet, he is admirable in a way that he is very passionate and he does not give up. Though he wasted his money in some thoughtless ideas, he found out that the earth is round and he tries to go out and explore the world outside his town.
ReplyDeleteChapter 1: Jose Arcadio Buendia is a curious man who is the founder of the town. The leader of the gypsies, Melquiades gives him supplies for a scientific study which frustrates Ursula. Jose is driven to explore and find out knowledge about solitude. Joes also wants to learn about civilization and leads this expedition. Jose wants to move to Macondo but is stopped by his wife who doesn’t want to leave. Melquiades is dead but Jose doesn’t lose interest in what he’s trying to do.
ReplyDeleteChapter 2: The book in this chapter moves backwards kind of. Jose and his wife Ursula are born in this village. Weird stuff happens like two of their relatives gave birth to a child with a pig’s tail, or Ursula refuses to have sex fearing a deformity of their child. Prudencio who is kind of a rival, is killed by Jose and after, Jose leaves his home. Jose remembers this dream he had of Macondo as a city with mirrored walls. Jose’s son Aureliano , helps Jose, while his older son Jose Arcadio is seduced by a woman named Pilar Ternera who like shim because he has a big penis and she gets pregnant.
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