ChApTeR EiGhT

Plot Summary:
This chapter, Chapter Eight- we starts off with Amaranta and Aureliano falling for each other. They play games wiht eachothers minds to keep the realtionship from going anywhere. However, it only leads them to want each other more and more and never really solves what they really wanted to get accoplished. But almost kissing and almost getting involved with him made Amaranta stop and realize the fun of their lust is getting kind of out of hand. And now it needs to come to an end or else bad things are going to happened between them. While this is all going on, Aureliano is going and he was fighting different battles, but does not have any reasons for doing them. Then Aureliano Jose went with him but soon arealized that he needed to go back to his family. Family was he everything, and he just up and left Aureliano behind in the dust. He the continued you on, and developed bad ways. He was sleeping with different women all the time. Finally Pilar said something to him, so he kind of stopped.

Quotes:
Quote One - "We've lost him forever," Ursula exclaimed on reading it. "If he follows this path he'll spend Christmas at the ends of the earth"(pg. 145).
Quote Two - "It's not just that," Amaranta retorted, "Any children will be born with the tail of a pig." . . . . "I don't care if they're born as armadillos," he begged(pg. 149).

Theme:
The main theme of this chapter is Incest. Aureliano Jose is the main character that proves this theme. He is in love with his aunt Amaranta and could care less what happens to his children with her. He just wants to be able to f*ck her as many times as he wants. Regardless what is said to him about having children within a family, they still do some things together, and they are still related.

Magical Realism:
The magical realism in this chapter is proven when Pilar saw into the future. Pilar knew what was going on in Aureliano's life. Pilar knew what was going to occur next. Knowing what is going to happen in someone else's life is just magical in itself.

Charater Development:
Aureliano- grows up into a young man. However, he still may be young, but he is forced to grow up for his families sake.
Armanta- begins to have inconsistent feelings. She changes her mind a lot about the feelings she is having and the men she is talking to. She doesn't understand if she is to become with everything, or keep things inside. So she is struggling with understanding her ways and her life.