For today's blog, speak about two themes that you find in these chapters that you feel relate to the novel as a whole. Please use specific quotations or references from the text to support your ideas.
1) In these chapters I feel that death and war, as themes, are important. In chapter 7 Jose' Arcadio dies, but no one knows how. They don't know if murder or suicide was the cause. Many of the other Buendias die as well. War changes characters in this novel. For example, Colonel Aureliano Buendia changes and loses his sensitive self, and he becomes more tough due to his experiences in war. His loss of memory is horrible and he lost all emotion. He even attempts suicide.
2) I feel that incest is a theme in these chapters as well. Aureliano Jose' begins to become extremely attracted to his aunt Amaranta. These two sleep naked together and touch, but they never have intercourse. They are almost caught at one point in the novel and after that Amaranta decides to stop the whole thing. Due to this Aureliano joins the army. I feel this is important because in the earlier chapters we found out that Jose' Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguaran, whom are married, are actually cousins as well as husband and wife. I think this may become a trend in the future of the readings and is a good thing to keep in mind.
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