Active Reading Journal #3

I. Magical Realism
- - “ …No one felt sleepy at bedtime and they realized that they had gone more than fifty hours without sleeping…They had indeed contracted the illness of insomnia.” This is magical realism because it is something that keeps occurring.
II. Characters
- - Jose Arcadia Buendia- Still crazy, but manages to help village during the plague
- Amaranta- small girl playful
- Ursula- is somewhat in denial at some point during the stage of insomnia, loses memory
- Aureliano-Grown, mature man, still into science
- Rebeca- 11 year old girl who barely speaks, sick
- Arcadio- small child, playful
- Melquiades- dies than comes back to life with new invention
- Don Apolinar Moscote-someone from the government

III. Plot Summary
- Jose Arcadio’s son was born and was named Arcadio. A girl named Rebeca who is apparently the daughter of one of Ursula’s and Jose Arcadia Buendia’s relatives. As she arrives to the house, she has a bag of her parents’ bones. So they take care of her and discover that she does not eat. So Ursula does some intensity to get Rebeca to eat. Eventually Rebeca comes to her senses but then they find out another problem. They find out that she can not sleep, they find out she has insomnia, and brings it to the whole family. Eventually the family is affected by the illness and then it soon results in ‘loss in memory.’ Unfortunately, the whole town is affected by insomnia and Jose Arcadia Buendia tries to help them continue living how they did before by labeling things around the town. Soon the gypsy, Melquiades comes back with a new invention which is a camera. Later, a man called Don Apolinar Moscote comes to the village. Don Apolinar Moscote and Jose Arcadia are enemies but Moscote is invited to stay in the household.
IV. Quotes
- “That way we can get more out of life.” I like this quote because if you actually think about it, if we all were not sleepy, or even want t sleep, we would get so much done because of all the time we would have.
- “ And so that you know it once and for all, we don’t need any judges here because there’s nothing that needs judging.” I really like this quote because where and who in this world does not judge what goes on in this world? It would be so nice if we did not judge.
V. Themes

1. Illness- illness plays in this chapter because the whole village is affected by the illness insomnia which leads to loss of memory.
2. Magical Realism- This is played in the part of insomnia, Rebeca comes with it and then it affects the whole village.
3. Dislike- Don Apolinar Moscote comes to the village and Jose Arcadia Buendia thinks of him as an enemies.