2. Colonel Aureliano Buendia finally realizes when his friend Colonel Gerineldo Marquez is sentenced to death that the war must no longer continue. Once Aureliano's friend is freed, the two of them work against the Liberals to convince them to stop fighting and end the war. Aureliano feels worthless in that he has betrayed himself and the party he was once fighting for and attempts suicide, but survives and his mother Ursula, takes care of him. After the war Aureliano resorts to solitude and begins to create little golden fishes alone in the workshop. Aureliano Segundo is fascinated by the things in Melquiades' laboratory and spends most of his time there. Both Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo being to have sex with the same woman, but she does not realize that they are two different men. Soon, Jose Arcadio Segundo decides to no longer have sexual relations with her, but his brother does. As a result of Aureliano Segundo and Petra Cotes' relations, the farm animals begin to reproduce abnormally quickly. Aureliano becomes very wealthy off of his animals. Meanwhile, Jose Arcadio Segundo desires to explore but he only succeeds in bringing a boat up the river, not finding a pathway to the ocean. Also, some women in his boat decide to have a carnival and declare Remedios the Beauty, queen. But when a rival queen visits the carnival her men start a riot and kill many people.
3. After reading this section I was curious if Melquiades had anything to do with Aureliano Segundo's luck, and wealth. Aureliano Segundo spent much of his time in Melquiades' laboratory trying to decipher his messages. He also encountered a large fortune from his livestock's amazing ability to reproduce rapidly in large amounts. Then I began to wonder if Melquiades controlled the entire Buendia family's fate, or even Macondo as a whole. After all, he wrote the book containing the Buendia family's history up until the exact moment that one of Aureliano's descendants solved his messages. Is Melquiades simply able to see the future and therefore was able to write the book, or did he control their fates and then copy it down into a book for them to solve later?
4. a) What is the significance, if any, of Aureliano Segundo resembling the Jose Arcadio's and Jose Arcadio Segundo showing resemblance to the earlier Aureliano's?
b) After reading this section, I was left wondering what view Marquez has on religion and if they appear in his works?
c) What was the point of the riot at the carnival?
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