Active Reading--- Week 1 Themes

Themes Chp.1-6
Chp.1
Solitude---With the big imagination and capability for things to change at such a fast pace sometimes, he begins to live in his mind. Everything is depending upon how he wants it and chooses not to let others into it. Everything has to be separated and it is only pulling them further apart later.

Time--- The Buendias everything is put in the past and how things used to function as a whole. Nothing seems to be relevant to the period they are experiencing now in life.

Discovery--- This is the chapter when we find out that Macondo was created and how they found it.

Chp.2
INCEST!---This is soo nasty how they all sleep together and the only one that worries is Ursula. I wonder about people like that!

And then there is the female issue dealing with all the babies!

Chp.3
Bible References--- The plagues are mentioned and how Exodus comes into play here. And through this it helps to show the way that things are supposed to be done in life, which could be the revealing of secrets.

Chp.4
Such contradictions are seen in this chapter...
Death--- Melquides finally passes on and goes to be dead for real this time and is the first person in Macondo to do so. And it happens with the relationships of others.

Love---Rebeca and Pierto; Remedios and Aurelino

Chp.5
Same as Chp. 4

Chp.6
War--- Aurelino leaves to defend his beliefs and all that he wants to deep dear.

Change of Attitude---Aurelino is back to his old ways of never talking to anyone anymore and being to himself. Everyone is realizing how life is and they are beginning to change things little by little.