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She is a hard worker, dedicated to the development of her business making candy animals and other confections. She is the character most afraid of the warning that intermarrying will produce a child with the tail of a pig , a fear she spreads for generations.
She becomes senile in her old age, but lives to be over years old. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:. Chapter 1 Quotes. Related Themes: Solitude. Page Number and Citation : 13 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Chapter 2 Quotes. Related Symbols: Tail of a Pig. Related Themes: The Circularity of Time. Page Number and Citation : 20 Cite this Quote. Chapter 7 Quotes.
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Chapter 1. He performs experiments and sends the magnifying Chapter 2. After two years of wandering, they find Chapter 3. That Sunday, an They dream while She sees Amaranta and Chapter 4. But when she is married, she behaves with grace and responsibility. She endears herself to the Buendia family, especially Ursula.
She dies young, due to an internal ailment. A neighborhood fixture with a special relation to the Buendias. In the beginning of the book, when she is still young, she takes many young men to her bed; as the novel progresses she becomes the enormous matron of a brothel.
She reads fortunes and cards that are often correct although few people heed her advice. She is the mother of both Aureliano Jose by Aureliano and Arcadio by Jose Arcadio , although Arcadio never knows that she is his mother.
At different points in the book, the Buendias come to her for sexual comfort, guidance, and advice. She never marries and spends most of her life consumed in personal bitterness towards Rebeca, who first gained the attentions of Pietro Crespi. Amaranta eventually drives Pietro Crespi to suicide and wears a black bandage for the rest of her life in contrition. Lonely all her life, she has relationships with her nephew and great-great-nephew that are tinged with incestuous feelings.
She receives a preminition of death many years before and dies perfectly prepared and perfectly at peace. He has an intensely intimate relationship with Amaranta and wishes to marry her. Instead, he joins his father and the rebel forces, only to desert later. He is shot in the back by a government soldier during an uprising. The son of Jose Arcadio and Pilar Ternera. He is neglected throughout most of his childhood.
After Colonel Aureliano Buendia leaves to join the civil war, he rules Macondo as a tyrant, enforcing the most arbitrary rules he can come up with. He tries to force Pilar Ternera to go to bed with him; instead she introduces him to Santa Sofia de la Piedad, who bears him three children. He is killed by a firing squad when the Liberals lose the war.
She shows up at the Buendia household mysteriously when she is eight years old, eating earth and bringing the insomnia plague to Macondo. Rebeca is the more beautiful of the two and garners the attention of Pietro Crespi. They have a perennial engagment, unconsummated for many years, until she meets Jose Arcadio.
She marries Jose Arcadio and Ursula turns her out of the house in anger for this disrespectful gesture. After Jose Arcadio's death, she barricades herself in her house and never comes out again. Strange and solitary. She is a tireless worker for the Buendia household for more than fifty years.
Then one day, when it is clear to her that the Buendias are on the path to decline and cannot return, she simply walks out of town and is never seen again.
The two boys seem to have their names and personalities reversed, as Jose Arcadio Segundo is possessed of the same solitary introspection as Colonel Aureliano Buendia. At first he seems to be wild, working as a cockfighter and then as the foreman of the banana plantation, but he has a change of heart and becomes a union organizer.
He is deeply traumatized by the massacre of banana workers and is the only person in town who remembers the event. Before he dies, he passes his knowledge on to Aureliano. Contrary to the family's patterns, he inherits Jose Arcadio's size and reputation for carousing. With his dedicated mistress, Petra Cotes, he gives enormous parties when his fortunes are good, and argues with his haughty wife, Fernanda del Carpio. After the rains, he is poor, but he dedicates the rest of his life to raising enough money in order that his youngest daughter, Amaranta Ursula, can go to school in Europe.
The daughter of Arcadio and Santa Sofia de la Piedad. She has no personality traits in common with the other Buendias; as such her fate is completely different from everyone else's. Completely lacking in convention and shame, so beautiful that three men die from attempts to gain her love, she is symbolic of a primal state that Macondo has lost. She ascends to heaven one morning, alive, lifted by angels. She is the last descendent of an impoverished royal family line from a gloomy, dying town.
Despite the fact that her line was dying and they had no money, her father told her that she was to be a queen and she believes that until her death, making life difficult for the "common" Buendias around her. The suggestion is that humans, too, will have time run out on them when their endless cycles of repeating generations finally draw to a close. As Aureliano II reads, past, present, and future all happen at once. Time, in One Hundred Years of Solitude, is not a single linear progression of unique events; instead, it is an infinite number of progressions happening simultaneously, in which no event can be considered unique because of its ties to both the past and the future, occurring at the same time somewhere else.
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