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| Founder of Macondo. Husband of Ursula, father of Aureliano, Amaranta and Jose Arcadio. Leaves his old town after killing Prudencio Aguilar. Goes insane and is tied to a tree in the backyard. Is brought inside when Aurelino predicts that he will die. |
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| Wife of the 1st Jose Arcadio Buendia. Mother of Aureliano, Amaranta, and Jose Arcadio. |
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| Jose Arcadio Buendia has this sensation just before he dies. He feels that he is walking through from room to room and every new room is the same as the room he just left. Would continue until touched on the shoulder by Prudencio Aguilar, where he will walk in reverse until he is back in reality and the real room. |
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| Colonel Aureliano Buendia |
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| The younger brother. Sleeps with Pilar, conceives Aureliano Jose. Marries Remedios Moscote when she is very young. Has 17 Aurelianos with different Women while in the War. Liberal leader. Fights and loses 32 wars for Pride. Becomes Reclusive, makes Golden Fish and dies by the tree in which his father was tied to after the circus comes to town. |
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| Sleeps with Pilar Ternera and concieves Arcadio. Runs off with an 11 year old Gypsy. Returns tattooed and very animal like (huge and strong) and marries Rebecca (His sort of sister) Is shot in a locked room, with no holes to be found in his body (?) His blood runs from his house into Ursula's house and avoids the carpet. |
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| Comes to Ursula's house carrying the bones of her parents. Eats dirt and paint. Speaks only the Indian language first. Falls in love with Pietro Crespi, but the wedding is put off again and again. Sleeps with Jose Arcadio and marries him. Dies in the solitude of her house after she refuses to come out. |
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| Tries to break up Rebeca and Petro because she is in love with him. She then refuses him, and he kills himself. For this she burns herself and forever wears a black bandage over her hand as a symbol of her virginity. She also rejects Colonel Geraldino Marquez. Messes around with Aureliano Jose (3rd generation) and Jose Arcadio (5th generation) |
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| Falls in love with Amaranta, goes off to war, and deserts when he is convinced that it is ok for him to marry his aunt. Amaranta refuses however. He is shot after he fails to heed Pilar's warning. He is not supposed to die, but the misreading of the cards cause his death. |
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| Becomes harsh dictator of Macondo, and is executed when the conservatives retake Macondo. Marries St. Sofia De la Piedad after he is sent to her by Pilar, his mother who he attempts to have sex with. He Fathers Remedios the Beauty, Jose Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo. |
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| Is supernaturally beautiful, but mentally handicapped. Men die in pursuit of her, and she is eventually swept away into the heavens when the wind picks up a sheet she is hanging outside. |
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| Studies some religion, but ends up cockfighting, and messing around with Donkeys. Sleeps with Petra Cortes (just as his brother does) but he gives her up when he contract as disease from her. Tries and is successful in navigating a river to the ocean, brings back French Prostitutes. Witness an execution when he was a child, and from then on he is afraid that he will be buried alive. Witnesses the death of 3000+ plantation workers, and is the sole survivor. |
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| Marries Fernanda Del Caprio, but continues his realtionship with Petra Cortes, which supernaturally allows his animals to be fiercely fertile. Becomes rich off of raffling off his animals. Fathers Meme, Jose Arcadio, and Amaranta Ursula. He Becomes a competative eater and throws ridiculous parties. The flood however keeps him from going to Petra Cortes, and his animals die off. His relationship with Petra Cortes cools, but then is revied again. |
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| Is raised to belive she is a queen. Marries Aureliano Segundo and brings strict rules and stuffiness to the house. Has Meme, Jose Arcadio, and Amaranta Ursula. Is plagued by a uterine disease, and contacts "invisible doctors". There is some uncertainty as to whether she actually suffers from a disease at all. |
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| Marries Arcadio, has Remedios the Beauty, and the twins. Is very submissive, she takes over the duty of the house. When she realizes that no matter how much she works she can't keep the house clean she just packs her bags and leaves. |
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| Very much like her father (Aureliano Jose), but she acts very studious to please her mother. She becomes involved with a mechanic for the banana plantation. Before he dies, she conceives Aureliano, and she is sent to the convent by her mother. |
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| Jose Arcadio (5th generation) |
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| Son of Fernanda Del Caprio. It is decided my Ursula that he will become Pope. He returns to Macondo with visions of Amaranta still in his head. Lives with 4 boys who eventually kill him and steal his money. |
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| The youngest child of Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo. Is sent off to school in Brussels where she marries Gaston and forces him to move back to Macondo with her. She is very fashionable. While he is away on business, she falls in love with her nephew, Aureliano (Meme's Son). The two conceive a child, who will be the last of the Buendias. She dies during labor. |
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| Aureliano (6th generation) |
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| Is raised in secret without ever learning his true parents. Falls in love with Amaranta Ursula, his aunt. He fathers the last of the Buendia line, and dies as he finished deciphering the parchments. |
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| A traveling gypsy and friend of Jose Arcadio Buendia. Author of the parchments and the first to die in Macondo. |
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| Come to Macondo to install a pianola in Ursula's house. Falls in love with both Rebeca and Amaranta. After he is unsuccessful with both, he slits his own wrists. |
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| magical elements or illogical scenarios appear in an otherwise realistic or even "normal" setting |
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