Active Reading Chapter 11

Fernanda del Carpio and Aureliano Segundo have become a married couple, however Aureliano is still having relations with Petra. "The marriage was on the point of breaking up after two months because Aureliano Segundo, in an attempt to placate Petra Cotes, had a picture taken of her dressed as the Queen of Madagascar." Fernanda was born in a dark, scary town 600 hundred miles away from Macondo. She lived a secluded life, taking care of her sickly mother who told her she was a queen. Her contact with the outside world was her piano lessons. She later finished school, only to return home to make funeral wreaths. Her mother later dies and her family is thrust into poverty. Her father arranges marriage with Aureliano.

2 weeks after their wedding night Fernanda finally allows Aurelino to consummate the marriage. "He was so fascinated with that vision that it took him a moment to realize that Fernanda was wearing a white nightgown that reached down to her ankles, with long sleeves and with a large, round buttonhole, delicately trimmed, at the level of her lower stomach. Aureliano Segundo could not suppress an explosion of laughter."

Aureliano Segundo, because Fernanda wouldn't have sex with him, went to Petra for pleasure. Fernanda left him, but soon returned Aureliano Segundo. Fernanda and Aureliano later give birth to 2 children: Jose Arcadio (whatever number) and Renata Remedios. Fernanda's father would send them giant gifts every Christmas, they was never anything they could play with. One Christmas, he sent his dead body to them.

Around Easter, Colonel Aureliano's 17 children to visit their family. They were wild people, breaking many things in the house and making Remedios climb a pole. Aureliano Segundo offers them all job, but only Aureliano Triste accepts. Aureliano Triste becomes used to the town and looks for a house live in. He stumples onto an empty house in the town. The people he ask say the home is empty, however upon exploration he is confronted by Rebeca who attempts to kill him. Later on, the other Aurelianos return and Aureliano Centeno stays to work in the ice factory. Aureliano Triste seeks to expand the village by obtaining a train for the village. Aureliano Centeno starts mixing fruit and accidentally makes a new flavor of snow cone.

Magical Realism: When Petra has sex the animals seem to imitate her and start having sex. Also, when the Aurelianos get their ashes they do not rub off.

Theme: The this chapter seems to focus on family problems. It starts with Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda's problem and flows into the Colonel Aureliano and his 17 bastard sons problem.

Character Development: Aureliano Segundo seems to act more like a Jose Arcadio. Colonel Aureliano has become like his father in his late life.

Quotes: "I was saying," she told her, "that you’re one of those people who mix up their ass and their ashes." Amaranta making fun of Fernanda

"he barely had time to give a cry and push the children aside when be raised the lead cover and saw Don Fernando, dressed in black and with a crucifix on his chest, his skin broken out in pestilential sores and cooking slowly in a frothy stew with bubbles like live pearls." Aureliano Segundo discovering his father-in-law's corpse.