You must post 2 times before Tuesday, April 17th. Your first post should be completed by Thursday, April 12th. It should be in response to one of the prompts below. The second time you post, it must be in response to, or in reaction to, the post of another student.
On page 68, Jose Arcadio Buendia says that "Love is a disease." What evidence is there of the destructive powers of love and lust in this novel in terms of how an individual can be affected and the impact it can have on relationships?
Choose a particular character to evaluate. Determine whether the character traits you have noted are ultimately positive or negative, or both. Explain your reasoning. For example Jose Arcadio Buendia: He is inventive and spends many hours alone on his alchemy experiments trying to discover already known science. This is ultimately negative, because he isolates himself from his family and eventually goes mad.
Identify elements of the story that you find particularly interesting, or worthy of discussion. Pose your own questions.Include portions of the text that you feel contribute to your questions/your point. Cite page numbers.
Ursula is a kinda and caring mother. She looks after her family and tries to keep JAB from corrupting them with his non stop scientific testing. This is a good thing because she balances out the family and keeps them in check.
ReplyDeleteYes, i agree with you. She is a very caring mother. O'Doyle Rules...
Deleteyeah i agree because all the money he is taking away and all the time that JAB is spending working on scientific stuff and not his family will cause a lot of problems.
DeleteOn page 68, Jose Arcadio Buendia says that "Love is a disease." What evidence is there of the destructive powers of love and lust in this novel in terms of how an individual can be affected and the impact it can have on relationships?
ReplyDeleteLove sickness rapidly invades the Buendia household in chapter 4. Aureliano is so overwhelmed by his desire to marry Remedios Moscote that he halts his gold work, practically his obsession, to write endless love poems about her anywhere and everywhere. On page 65 we find out that Aureliano even wrote poems on his arms that described all the wonderful things Remedios was. On page 63 the book explains that when Pietro left Rebeca returned to eating the earth. In fact, she eats so much that she ends up vomiting and becoming delirious. Furthermore, Amaranta becomes overly obsessed with Pietro despite her sisters desire and plan to marry him. Amaranth almost goes insane, saying she will kill Rebeca if she has to because she will not allow she and Pietro to marry. Love is infecting their family, tearing relationships apart, and messing with everyone's wellbeing. I think JAB is spot on when he describes love as a disease.
Allie I really agree with everything you said about these various relationships and how love is tearing this family apart. You could even add the part in the story where Aureliano seeks out a relationship with Pilar on page 67. I found this a little messed up in the fact that Pilar already had a relationship and a baby with the older brother, Jose Arcadio. Yet right away, Aureliano tells her that he has come to sleep with her because he has carried this love for her in his heart since he was young boy. Love is obviously driving these people to do crazy things.
DeleteI agree with everything you said as well, I think one of the best examples of that of Rebecca and Amaranta. What kind of adult thinks to eat earth, or kill her own sister without having some sort of disease or disorder? It's crazy weird.
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ReplyDeleteJose Arcadio is a good example of love being a disease. Earlier in the story he has to keep going over to Pilar's house and sneaking into her room. He continued to do this and then he is going to be a father. Then he sees a gypsy girl and them loves her. So he ruined his relationship a bit with Pilar and his unborn child after that.
Hey Joe! I agree with your reasoning for why you think Jose Arcadio is an example of love being a disease. You did a fantastic job of portraying how he ruined his relationship with Pilar and his unborn child.
Deletei agree with Joe completely. Jose Arcadio has gotten himself into quite a bit of trouble because of love, as you mentioned. Whether it was getting a girl pregnant that he was not married too or running off with the gypsy because he suddenly found himself more in love with her than Pilar
DeleteI think the character traits of Amaranta are negative in the story. At first, you picture this nice and sweet girl, but then you learn of her jealously towards her sister Rebeca. The way she threatens the life of her own sister proves she is self-centered and determined to get what she wants. I think her character may continue to cause problems for the family in the rest of the book.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Maddie. I don't feel like she has a very big role in the story yet (compared to the other characters), but I think she will be an important character soon. I also think that she is jealous towards Rebeca and she never talks that much.
DeleteI also agree with Maddie and Ryan. I think that she will eventually have more of a role in the story when her real character begins to unravel as she gets older and more events take place later in the story.
DeleteThe relationship between Amaranta and Rebecca is portrayed negatively in this chapter. I agree with Maddie because at first you picture this nice and sweet girl, but then you learn of her jealousy towards her sister. She threatens to kill her sister over a guy. Amaranta is going to become a very interesting character in the rest of the chapters due to her jealousy towards Rebecca.
DeleteI found it every interesting how towards the end of the Chapter Jose Arcadio starts to have flashbacks of the man he killed early in his life. Being overwhelled with sowwor of the man's death he begings to have a raging temper, tears start to flow. He had to be carried out by 20 men and tied to a tree, where he could calm down and spend the rest of his life at.
ReplyDeletei too found it very interesting that Jose Arcadio Buendia started to have flash backs about the man that he killed. he goes crazy a lot, and it is interesting to see what will happen in the future with this problem.
DeleteI as well was rather intrigued about the mental instability Jose shows throughout the chapter. I wonder if its an exaggerated magic realism or is a legitimate mental condition he may have.
DeleteWhen Jose Arcadio Beundia says that "love is a disease", there are many examples that come to mind. In Chapter 2 when Jose Arcadio begins his love affair with Pilar Ternera, he becomes an entirely different person. Even when he didn't want to he would go see her at night. Love changed him. And in some ways it was for the worst (disease aspect of the quote)
ReplyDeleteYes thats a great example of "love is a disease" and there are also many more like it. Love is a reoccuring theme in this book and I believe is the basis for the whole family.
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ReplyDeleteThe founder and patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía represents both great leadership and the innocence of the ancient world. He is a natural explorer, setting off into the wilderness first to found Macondo and then to find a route between Macondo and the outside world. This is ultimately negative, because he isolates himself from his family and eventually goes mad.
Well first off Jose's son sneaks out every night to have a sexual relationship with a girl outside of marriage and that's all they ever do which shows a great amount of lust. Also I feel like Jose and Ursula have began to grow apart and lose love for each other. And I wouldn't be surprised to see one of them decide to enter into a different relationship or have an affair with another person. Every character in this story has been affected by love and it will be interesting to see how each one ends up handling themseleves every time they have to face a new obstacle.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Jake when he says that it will be interesting to see how each one ends up handling themselves because the plot of this story can take so many different twists and turns that the reader has no idea what is coming next.
DeleteIn chapter three, Aureliano's brothers forced him to visit a prostitute. I thought that his reaction to this was very interesting. He thought he paled in comparison to his brothers and had sympathy for the girl's story instead of getting what he paid for and leaving like every other man who came across her path. He even went as far as going back the next day to marry her so she wouldn't have to suffer under her grandmother's control anymore.
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ReplyDeleteRebeca is a mysterious character. She just showed up at the house and didn't speak their language. She didn't have much luggage, but she carried her parents' bones around with her, which is weird. When she was nervous, she would sit in the corner of the room and suck on her finger. She never ate normal food and had insomnia disease, which she passed on to the entire village of Macondo. She picked up on life in Jose Arcadio Buendia's home quickly and finally started playing with her sisters and new family. Her character notes are ultimately negative. She is young and has never really experienced family life, so she does not know how to behave around them. I think she is an interesting character to follow!
ReplyDeleteI agree that she is quite interesting. I'm eager to find out whether or not she will turn out to be an influential character in the development of the novel, and if she'll end up being a positive or negative person in the Buendia family. There are times where she appears to be normal like any other little girl but then she turns around and eats dirt. She cannot seem to escape the creepy ways of her past. Her mysterious past is somewhat like the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar for JAB, following her around and haunting her from within. I also wonder if she'll be able to escape these habits and if she will end up with Pilar.
DeleteWhat i find interesting is eventually, the entire town becomes infected with insomnia and the associated amnesia. O'Doyle Rules
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DeleteI agree with Ryan Emily in saying that Rebeca is a very interesting and strange character to evaluate and follow throughout this novel. At first, I was not intrigued by her as much because she was just a new character in the book. But, I started to want to learn more about her as I learned about her strange habits. She eats dirt and drywall (something my little brother did as a kid as well...) and she carries a bag of her parents' bones with her everywhere, which I find extremely creepy. It is hard to say whether her influence on the story will be positive or negative overall, but I am looking forward to seeing if she learns to adjust to the Buendia family and if she becomes more involved in the activities they do as a family.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Hanna in the amount of compassion that Aureliano surprisingly showed toward Pilar. He was a good man by not running away like every other guy did to her. They would have intercourse with her then just leave without ever speaking to her ever again. This shows that Aureliano is truly a compassionate person and truly cares about how other people feel.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Rebeca first came to live with the Buendias she would eat earth and chippings from the walls. She slowly stopped doing it but when she fell in love with Pietro she started to do it again. Her love made her crave things that made her feel better and what she felt comfortable doing to make her forget about the hurt that she felt when he left.
A good example of the love sickness is Jose Arcadio and Pilar because their was a strong sexual relationship between them and he would regularly sneak away to see her. Buut then he got her pregnant and ran away with a gypsy girl. He is being reckless and causing problems.
ReplyDeleteLove is a disease is a well fit saying for how it has torn apart some of the people. Jose had an affair with Pilar and they ended up getting her pregnant which resulted in him leaving and having another affair with a circus lady and never coming back. Maybe he'll come back and be a dad, or maybe even become a future villain?
ReplyDeletei agree, I think it also refers to the way it destroyed JAB's life, and ended up growing apart from Ursula, the woman he once was so deeply in love with.
DeleteI would just like to evaluate the character of Ursala. She seems to care for everyone in her family to a great extent, excluding her husband and the gypsy man living in their home. The seem to have put up quite a fight to get married considering they are cousins, so I am confused as to why she seems to treat him with such a lower amount of respect and care than the rest of the family.
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ReplyDeleteI figured evaluating Rebecca would be good because of the unique way she arrives, and her strange characteristics. When she arrives she brings a bag of bones saying that she is a distant relative of the Buendia family. When we learn about her we learn that she eats whitewash and dirt. She also has a contagious decease that cause people to not be able to sleep, and it makes them lose there memory. Rebecca ends up beating this disgusting eating habit, but its interesting how the connection between Rebecca and his sister is that his sister used to eat dirt and whitewash as well. which probably is unhealthy
Ursula is the character I chose. I believe she is ultimately a positive character although she has rough edges and rough ways of authority. For example a lot of the times Ursula is portrayed she is yelling or angry but thats her way of keeping things in line.
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