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Ch. 7

Summary
The war ends in May. Colonel Aurieliano is captured with the Colonel Marquez. He is brought back to Macondo, where his mother goes to see him in jail. He gives her his poems and love notes to burn away. He recalls countless times when he just missed death, one time being someone slept in his bed and an assassin killed that person while C. Aurieliano was elsewhere. C. Aurie asks to be killed in Macondo. While in macondo, his brother Jose Arcadio sees them and rescues C. Aurieliano. Jose Arcadio is later mysteriously killed, and Rebecca doesn't know who did it. Trail of blood leads Ursula to the where J.A. was dead with no wound or bruise on his body.

Quotes
"I ask that the sentenance be carried out in Macondo." Colonel Aurieliano's last wish, which ends up leading to his freedom. Good call by him.

"Marry him," Ursula talking to Amaranta about Colonel Gerinaldo Marquez.

Themes
War. As soon as the war ends, it begins right back up again when Jose Arcadio rescues Auieliano from execution. Another theme would be reoccurence, meaning war, Aurieliano surviving again, and Amaranta once again rejecting a man's love for unheard of reasons.

Character Development
Amaranta is still the same ol crow. Aurieliano realizes he is fighting for pride, not the best reason because it seems very selfish of him. Ursula is still a main-stay and powerful figure, getting Marquez to fall for Amaranta. After Jose Arcadio's death, Rebecca just fades away.

Magical Realism

• Blood trail to Ursula.
• Aurieliano sending a letter about his father dying.
• Aurieliano ability not to die.
• Jose Arcadio Buendia still talking to Prudencio .

Ch. 8

Summary
Aurieliano Jose, Pilar Ternera and C. Aurieliano's son, start to have sexual relations with Amaranta, his aunt. They go mad for each other, hiding their secret love. Aurieliano Jose eventually leaves with his father. Ursula begins a mourning period when she believes he is dead. But when she finds out he is alive, its not the best new because he has joined some federalists to take down the conservatives. This does not make Ursula happy. When AJ comes back, he intends to marry Amaranta, but she doesn't want any of that. She refuses him and begins to barr her door to keep him out of her bedroom. Eventually, their lust burned out. C. Aurieliano's 17 sons came to Ursula to get baptized. AJ gets shots in the back and is killed.C. Aurieliano returns, but invades Macondo. Is basically at war with Ursula. C. Aurieliano has the firing squad kill his friend Jose Raquel Moncada.

Quotes
"You're a man now." Amaranta to her nephew Aurieliano Jose, who shes has a sexual relationship with.

"Go to hell, friend." Jose Rafael to C. Aurieliano, right before he receives the firing squad.

Themes

Incest, as Aurieliano tries to marry his aunt. Dictatorship, with Aurieliano willing to take over his birthplace for the federalists.

Character Development
C. Aurieliano gets taller, skinnier, and paler, losing himself and what made him a hero. He is now no better than the conservatives. Ursula is still the same. Amaranta doesn't want AJ any more, barring her door. AJ has become like a Jose Arcadio, a giant brute.

Magical Realism

• AJ's death, when the gypsies cards showed someone will die. Someone did, then 4 hours later AJ was shot.
• Aurieliano's seventeen sons all having his same coldness. Only two of them had his "abilities."

Ch. 9


Summary
Marquez is bored with the war. Still is trying to persuade Amaranta, who still rejects him. When C. Aurieliano returns, he is different, with no escort or that type of invasion. He doesn't even really care about the war, that he just wants power. Condemns Marquez to death, Ursula threatens to kill him. Aurieliano snaps out of it, frees Marquez, and decides to end the war. He then mopes around Macondo for awhile, no memories because the war has wiped them out. He then signs the treaty papers and surrenders 72 gold bricks. He then shoots himself afterward. But he was unable to kill himself, then is proclaimed a hero. He almost starts up the war again, but doesn't, and returns to his rocking chair. The house is then rejuvenated.

Qoutes
"Take them to the whores." C. Aurieliano, saying about the lawyers who came to talk about the stalemate in the war. He basically shooed off something important.

"that all we're fighting for is power." C. Aurieliano accepting the fact that it is no longer between Liberals and Conservatives, but between two entities wanting more power.

Themes
Redemption. Aurieliano shooting himself was a symbol of penance. Unrequited love is another, with a young commander killing himself because of the vanity of Remedios the Beauty. Friendship has a small role, with Aurieliano saving his friend Marquez from execution.

Character Development
Aurieliano turns from dictator into an empty shell with a small amount of dignity left. He has lost all his memories and seems just like a robot. Ursula, with the war over, is rejuvenated and makes her house a beautiful place to be.

Magical Realism

• The worms in the pot when Auriliano shoots himself.
• Ursula talking to her dead husband.
• Aurieliano's inability to die.

Ch. 10


Summary
Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aurieliano Segundo were twins who did everything the same. They had this twin sense and often displayed it. They would confuse others by switching up bracelets and clothes and called each other the opposites name. They may have, at some point, confused themselves and forgotten. The one called JAS was small and skinny like the Colonel Aurieliano, while AS was bigand strong like Jose Arcadio. But the deciding difference was when JAS wanted to see an execution, and AS wanted to read all of Melquaides books and manuscripts. JAS and AS end up having sex with the same woman, who could not tell the difference betweem the two.Eventually, AS ends up with her permanently, named Petra Coats.She mystically made animals have very fertile, so they became rich. Stinking rich to be exact. Remedios the Beauty was too beautiful, named queen. People died because of her. At a carnival, some bedouins shouted "Long live Aurieliano Buendia" and killed some people. AS saves Fernanda, who he later marries.

Qoutes
"Long live the Liberal Party!" the bedouins who proceeded to kill a bunch of people.

"He was a complete Simpleton." Remedios the Beauty saying to Amaranta how the young soldier killed himself because of her beauty.

Themes
Disillusionment, Aurieliano Buendia just sits in his workshop making fish scales. Confusion and difference are also themes concerning the physical and mental attributes of AS and JAS. Aurieliano's legend has yet to fully become just legend, as evidence by the bedouins.

Character Development
Remedios the Beauty is pretty much the same, doesn't develop because she doesn't need to. AS is developing into Colonel Aurieliano, as he has a desire to learn from Melquaides. Ursula is still the same. JAS is becoming a good cock fighter and somewhat of a religious man.

Magical Realism

AS and JAS twin connection.
Remedios the Beauty and her unholy good looks.
Melquaides return, talks to AS.
Petra Coats and her ability to have animals reproduce in oustounding numbers.