Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Monday, May 9, 2011
Week #5
As we begin the last section of the novel, focus on the theme of change and the patterns/cycles that Macondo seems to be undergoing. What events and/or ideas have brought about these changes? Is history repeating itself? Or are we seeing a dramatic rebirth of this strange village? Blog postings, as always, due Friday by the start of class.
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Chapter 16: During the massacre its doesn’t stop raining for almost five years. Aureliano Segundo becomes very quiet during this period and everyone seems sad. Ursula stays in her bed most of this chapter and talks with her children and grandchildren. The rain ruins Aureliano Segundo’s house and kills all the animals. When the rain finally stops Macondo looks awful, the banana plantations have been ruined by the rain.
ReplyDeleteChapter 16 Extra: When it rained for almost five straight years, I think the author was trying to compare that to the story of Noah and the flood in the bible, or that’s where he got the idea. The rain could have also symbolized change or a new beginning.
extra blog for extra credit chapter 17: In this chapter Ursula dies, Rebeca dies, and Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo die. When the Segundo twins die, their coffins get mixed and their buried in the wrong grave. Also the people in town believe theirs a "plague" or their cursed.
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ReplyDeleteMacondo is now invaded by floods, and after 4 years of constant rains, it stops; Ursula couldn’t have died in the past years because she promised that she wouldn’t die before the rain stopped. After rain stops, Ursula notices that she is no longer as useful as before; she couldn’t play that much with the children because now she got tired easily. She gets out of her bed for the first time after Amaranta’s death and tries to incorporate again into the family, although she is blind, people in the house think that she is now tired and no one suspects about her blindness. Bugs start to invade the house and Fernanda, Santa Sofia de la Piedad and Ursula try to get rid of them but the house structure is getting weak because of the humidity and the rain. When Ursula is cleaning the house she breaks in to Melquiades’s room and finds Jose Arcadio Segundo all dirty and covered with hair. After having a long discussion with him involving the cycles of Macondo and ends up noticing that he is not going to leave the room because he is traumatized with his trip on the train, so she orders the people of the house to clean both him and the room and also to leave the room unlocked. Little Aureliano Babilonia comes frequently to talk to Jose Arcadio Segundo and they both start figuring out Melquiades's manuscripts. Ursula starts regressing in time until she becomes a fetus and she is found dead in her bed and burried. Aureliano Segundo comes back to Fernanda's house and both him and his twin brother Jose Arcadio Segundo die in the Buendia's house
After Ursula Iguaran dies, there is a creature that greaks into people houses and the villagers start to try to chase him and after they find this ugly creature they kill him near the Buendia's house
ReplyDeleteAfter the floods, everything in Macondo is destroyed and he goes to Petra Cotes’s house and finds an animal with which he starts a ticket raffle, when he sees that the raffle is a good business, he starts buying animals and making them reproduce in order to continue the raffles, after a couple of weeks, the animals stop reproducing and he tries to figure out why is this happening and he suspects that it’s Petra Cotes’s fault. After trying to find out the reason, he falls in love with Petra and after a while, he becomes sick and starts selling more tickets in order to accomplish his dream that is to send his daughter Amaranta Ursula to Brussels. After a long time of work, he gets to his goal and he starts getting more sick; in order to stick to his promise and he goes to Fernanda’s house when he feels death coming. After some time there, he and his twin brother die on the same day, a week before getting the first letter of Amaranta Ursula.
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