Active Reading Chapter 19

Amaranta Ursula returns with her luggage and her husband. Amaranta Ursula brings life, to the now dead house. She cleans up the place and cleans up her "darling cannibal" Aureliano. Gaston, Amaranta's husband, begins collecting insects around the town and talking to Aureliano to ease his boredom. Aureliano soon finds himself wandering the village. Nothing is what he remembers it is, The Banana Company is destroyed and town is in horrible condition. He meets Nigromanta on his voyage and they become lovers. While at the book store, Aureliano meets 4 arguing boys. Their names are Alvaro, German, Alfonso, and Gabriel, they are Aureliano's first friends.

"She was irresistible, with a dress she had designed and one of the long shad-vertebra necklaces that she herself had made." Aureliano begins to lust after Amaranta, soon becoming infatuated with her. He begins to dislike Gaston calling him "a fool on a velocipede". One day he expresses his true feelings for her, but she is frightened by them and threatens to leave. Aureliano arrives at the house, following the advise of Pilar, and finds Amaranta coming out he shower. Aureliano then precedes to rape her, "She barely had time to reach out her hand and grope for the towel to put a gag between her teeth so that she would not let out the cat howls that were already tearing at her insides."

Magical Realism: Pilar still being alive, no one remembering the Beundia family.

Theme: History: this seems to focus on the history of the family.

Charecter Development: Aureliano repeats the same mistake many in his family have done.

Quotes: "Aureliano could not find anyone who remembered his family, not even Colonel Aureliano Buendía, except for the oldest of the West Indian Negroes, an old man whose cottony hair gave him the look of a photographic nega-tive and who was still singing the mournful sunset psalms in the door of his house." The Family has become a distant memory.

"There was no mystery in the heart of a Buendía that was impenetrable for her because a century of cards and experience had taught her that the history of the family was a machine with unavoidable repetitions" History allows repeats itself because people are not knowledgeable of history.