ChApTeR ThReE

Plot Summary:
Chapter Three- begins with Macondo getting better when they find the route to civilization. By going on the route, he gets new people including Arcadio Jose the son's son and Rebeca an orphan whose past is unknown to do things with him. Rebeca somehow gives the whole village insomnia and Jose the father and Aureliano put signs all over the village to remind them about what things are and they even have a sign reminding them that god exists. After that happens, Melquiades then comes back from the dead and gives the town the cure they have been in desperate need of. Also Melaquiades brings the Buendia family a daguerreotype which gives them their1st family portrait. Now Melaquaides joins Jose the father in the lab as they try to find a way to take a picture of God. Meanwhile Aureliano learns how to be a silversmith. Ursula must not like blue because she gets Jose the father to run the guy who told her the house had to be blue out of town. He gets denoted from his government position and comes back to settle in the town as a regular citizen. Aureliano becomes attracted to one of the guy's 9 year old daughters. Out of sexual frustration he sleeps with Pilar Ternera and tells her his secret. She helps Aureliano asks her to marry him and Remedios says yes. Also, Aramanta and rebeca become interested in the same guy, Pierto Crespi. He decides to marry Rebeca and Aramanta gets very angry. Melaquiades is the first person to die in Macondo and after they bury him, Aureliano teaches Remedios how to read later Pilar tells him that she is pregnant with his baby.


Quotes:
Quote 1- "If we don't ever sleep again, so much the better"(pg. 43).
Quote 2- "If you throw in twenty cents more when you go out, you can stay a little longer"(pg. 52).
Themes:
Theme one - Revelations- is the main theme of this chapter. They find out many things. In the chapter the arrival of a new family member, the symptom, and cure for the insomnia that they have all gone through. Melaquiades has arisen from the dead which also shows some sort of revelations.

Magical Realism:
The first aspect of magical realism is the little orphan. The littel orphan is Rebeca who can has a major impact on a entire village. This little girl has the power to make people forget things. This is magic to me because most females, do not have that kind of effect on anyone. Another is Melaquaides, the gypsy comes back to life and then blesses the family with a picture image. This proves that he is magical because everyone is under some sort of spell. However, he comes back and just so happens to have the anecdote to cure them.

Character Development:
Aureliano- has become a man and yet has never seen or been with a girl. Also the family as a whole has developed economically by now having the ability to take pictures.
Armanta begins to gather an interest in the opposite sex in the form of a man named Pietro Crespi.
Pilar Ternera- has the baby but is pushed away because of the animosity between her and Aureliano.
Ursula- is a very enterprising woman in the village and is beginning to expand the village as well.
Rebeca- is an orphan girl who appears through message and is supposedly a cousin to them. they accept her and she is supposed to be the cause of the insomnia.
Jose Arcadio Jr. (Arcadio)- was born and moves in with the Buendia family in this chapter.
Melquiades- who is suppose to be dead comes back to Macondo