Suicide 10/29/09

In the time that Aureliano Buendía was getting more in touch with his past and his feelings he decided to break away from it all again by selling everything from the store he used to have and burning pictures of the family that included him in them. Eventually, he was visited by his officers and they asked him to sign a paper that would have him surrender, but when they got to his house they yelled profanities at him and when he arrived everyone, including his enemies celebrated. After the whole celebration he shot himself in the area where his doctor told him his heart was, but he was saved by him as well. This makes me feel really sorry for Aureliano that he was keeping his thoughts of suicide to himself

Breaking Through 10/28/09

Colonel Aureliano Buendía had a meeting with six lawyers who wanted to convince him to sign a treaty that would return some land back to their owners and appeal to the conservative party, it would also return power to the catholic church. He finally had a mental decision that the war didn't matter anymore because people weren't fighting for their own ideas, but because they just wanted more and more power. He signed the paper as his best friend, Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, whom was taken to prison to be executed. Úrsula, hearing this news, went to Aureliano's room that if he were to execute Gerineldo that she would kill him so Aureliano saved Gerineldo deciding that he would try to end the war with both sides being happy. This really makes me feel proud of Aureliano because he changes so much. From being lonely to having a best friend and even sacing his life.

Solitude 10/27/09

In the midst of the war General Gerineldo Márquez was the mayor of Macondo in which he took orders from Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Márquez was slowly realizing that the war was making no progress and he told Buendía to start caring about people because he would end up lonely and cold. Buendía didn't understand so he continued to have men help him in the war, but whoever he didn't like or felt was a threat would be killed before his order was even given and because of this he was slowly feeling more and more in a state of solitude. This makes me feel really bad for Buendía.

Mothers 10/26/09

When Colonel Aureliano Buendía decided he would shoot José Raquel Moncada he shot the rest of his army first. All the mothers of the soldiers of Macondo came to him with Ursula and told him that even though there was a war going on that they were still mothers of those soldiers and if the court-martial were to allow the execution of José they were allowed to give them whippings if they were to show any sign of disrespect. I found this to be extremely humorous because the court-martials are very powerful and they're mothers are telling them that they have the power to scold them.

Aureliano's Luck 10/22/09

During the time that Colonel Aureliano Buendía was gone he had slept with many women and all of them went to Úrsula's house to have their child baptized. Úrsula spent lots of time with Pilar Ternera, Aureliano José's biological mother, and Pilar would lend young couples her to room so that they could make love, which didn't bother her at all because she was happy that lover's could be happy and that she was helping. Aureliano José had started turning more and more rebellious with his mother because of how he was rejected Amaranta's love so he started going out and sleeping with women. One night he went out to the theatre and Captain Aquiles Ricardo and two of his soldiers were searching people in the line and suddenly Aureliano José started running, the captain shot a bullet at him, but somehow he was shot before and died. A lot of the events that happen in this story really remind me a lot of how my mom tells me about her adolescent years in Mexico and it really is strange.

General Aureliano Returns 10/21/09

After General Aureliano leaves the town because of the treaty he had made with the liberals, but he kept attacking different small towns. During all of these wars José Raquel Moncada was named mayor of Macondo and he would talk to Aureliano, which they happened to be friends after a while and they would play chess with each other. This shows how even the worst of enemies can still learn to like each other.