Active Reading--Week 2 Quotes

Quotes Chp. 7-10
Chp.7
"Don't be clever Buendia," he told him. " That's just a trick to gain more time." (pg. 126)
--- Aurelino is trying not to die and wants to escape it as much as possible. He isn't ready for it and people know it.

"Let's pray to God for his enemies to show him clemency."
--- They never seemed like real religous people and their ways never really stuck out much to me. And whenever they get in trouble do they think he will jsut solve it for them and get rid of all the problems.

Chp.8
"I don't care if they're born as armadillos.." (pg. 149)
--- Aureliano Jose is determined to get it his way and it doesn't matter how he does it. Even if the incest to be with his aunt is wrong, all if it is better if she is just allowed to be with him.

“We’ve lost him forever.” (pg. 159)
--- Ursula cannot say that about her son Colonel Aureliano Buendia, but also about a majority of her other family tree parts. Solitude repeates itself many times and it goes beyond death and leads them more into not wanting to be part of society any longer as a person.

Chp.9
"How strange men are, they spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayer books as gifts.”( pg. 176)
--- How much of a hyprocrite is that? They continue to not understand how everything must work together and hand in hand. No one knows which way to go and make a good decision about life or anything else.

"There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys."
--- I can't really get past trying to find the meaning behind it all and the way that it makes sense. I personally think that Jose Arcadio Segundo is crazy and just randomly stated this.

Chp.10
“That’s what they’re all like, crazy from birth.” (pg. 198)
--- It is the true meaning of the Buendias and most of the town of Macondo. Nobody is truly sane and all together there as a group of people.

"Let's hope that he becomes a priest so that God will finally come into this house." (pg.185)
--- Ursula thinks that there is a curse that is haunting her family. Nothing is making sense and she wants it all to stop and be normal again between them and have no interfers with anybody else.