Active Reading---Week 2 Summaries

Summaries Chp. 7-10
Chp.7
Aurelino was captured and brought into Macondo to receive the death penalty. He talks with his mother Ursula and how the gun she was providing might help for a good escape out. However, the gun does no good and the town rebels for him and all of the court hearings he will have. And people were afraid to kill him because it then would leave them having the same sort of death as they had given him. When it's time for the execution for Aureliano, Jose Arcadio intervenes and the army and Aureliano flees. One day later, Jose Arcadio is shot down and killed in his room. Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo, the twins of Sofia and Arcadio, are born. Amaranta, then was falling in love with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez. But she refused to be with him, no matter how many times he would ask. When Jose Arcadio Buendia finally died, there was yellow flowers falling from the sky.
Chp.8
This chapter starts off with Amaranta and Aureliano falling for each other and they play games to keep it going longer. However, it only leads them to want each other more and more and never really solves the issues. Almost kissing him made Amaranta stop and realize the fun of lust is getting outta hand. IT HAD TO BE STOPPED! Aureliano, during this time, was fighting different battles, but never gave any real reasons for doing them. Aureliano Jose went with him and soon after realized he needed to go back to his family and deserted Aurelino. He would take different girls to Pilar's house to sleep with them. And one day when Pilar woke up , she told him not to leave the house because she knew something bad was going to happen to him. A man of the conservative army shot him. But Pilar knew that if he wouldn't have gone he would have lived and eventually married the woman who was waiting for him.
Chp.9
In chapter nine Aureliano becomes more secluded and cares less for war and for himself. Colonel Marquez keeps trying to get with Amaranta and wanting her to be with him like he knew they should be. Unfortunately for him, she keeps telling him NO more and more. But when Aureliano and Marquez leave to go forth on another job it comes to an end and Aureliano tries to kill himself. He doesn't get it done and begins a life of feelings that don't exist. He is really dead on the inside and no longer cares.
Chp.10
The twins are beginning to grow up and become their own person with different personalities. One takes after the gypsy who came into Macondo with all the new technology and the other is all into religion and its ways. Petra Cotes becomes the common bond between them as they grow to be older. They both start to sleep with her,but eventually Jose Arcadio Segundo stops sleeping with her and leaves the two to be together. As they get older, Aureliano Segundo starts to raise animals and raffles them off. Remedios the beauty wins queen and Fernanda gets hurt in an uprising. When she leaves Ursulas' to go home, Aureliano Segundo goes to her house to find her to marry her.