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She exhibits a very strong character and often succeeds where the men of her family fail, for example finding a route to the outside world from Macondo. He marries his adopted sister Rebeca, causing his banishment from the mansion, and he dies from a mysterious gunshot wound, days after saving his brother from execution. During the wars he fathered 17 sons by unknown women, [12] all named Aureliano.
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Four of them later begin to live in Macondo, and in the span of several weeks all of them but one including those who chose not to remain in Macondo are murdered by unknown assassins, before any of them had reached thirty-five years of age. Remedios was the youngest daughter of the town's Conservative administrator, Don Apolinar Moscote. The future Colonel Aureliano falls in love with her, despite her extreme youth.
She dies shortly after the marriage from a blood poisoning illness during her pregnancy. Until soon before the Colonel's death, her dolls are displayed in his bedroom. Amaranta dies a lonely and virginal spinster , but comfortable in her existence after having finally accepted what she had become. She arrives carrying a canvas bag containing her parents' bones and seems not to understand or speak Spanish. After his mysterious and untimely death, she lives in seclusion for the rest of her life. When the Liberal forces in Macondo fall, Arcadio is shot by a Conservative firing squad. He is eventually shot to death by a Conservative captain midway through the wars.
Centeno stay in Macondo and become a permanent part of the family. Eventually, as revenge against the Colonel, all are assassinated by the government, which identified them by the mysteriously permanent Ash Wednesday cross on their foreheads. The only survivor of the massacre is A. Amador, who escapes into the jungle only to be assassinated at the doorstep of his father's house many years later.
She rejects clothing and beauty. Too beautiful and, arguably, too wise for the world, Remedios ascends into the sky one afternoon in the 4pm sun, while folding Fernanda's white sheet. He plays a major role in the banana worker strike, and is the only survivor when the company massacres the striking workers. He dies at the exact instant that his twin does.
He turns to search for a buried treasure, which nearly drives him to insanity. He dies of an unknown throat illness at the same moment as his twin. Fernanda del Carpio Fernanda comes from a ruined, aristocratic family that kept her isolated from the world. Fernanda is brought to Macondo to compete with Remedios for the title of Queen of the local carnival; however, her appearance turns the carnival into a bloody confrontation.
After the fiasco, she marries Aureliano Segundo, who despite this maintains a domestic relation with his concubine, Petra Cotes. She has three children by Aureliano Segundo: She remains in the house after her husband dies, taking care of the household until her death. Her mental and emotional instability is revealed through her paranoia, her correspondence with the " invisible doctors ", and her irrational behavior towards Aureliano, whom she tries to isolate from the whole world. After her mother declares that she is to do nothing but play the clavichord, she is sent to school where she receives her performance degree as well as academic recognition.
While she pursues the clavichord with 'an inflexible discipline', to placate Fernanda, she also enjoys partying and exhibits the same tendency towards excess as her father. Meme meets and falls in love with Mauricio Babilonia, but when Fernanda discovers their affair, she arranges for Mauricio to be shot, claiming that he was a chicken thief. She then takes Meme to a convent. Meme remains mute for the rest of her life, partially because of the trauma, but also as a sign of rebellion. Several months later she gives birth to a son, Aureliano, at the convent.
Aureliano arrives in a basket and Fernanda is tempted to kill the child in order to avoid shame, but instead claims he is an orphan in order to cover up her daughter's promiscuity and is forced to "tolerate him against her will for the rest of her life because at the moment of truth she lacked the courage to go through with her inner determination to drown him He returns from Rome without having become a priest.
He spends his days pining for Amaranta, the object of his obsession. Later, he begins a tentative friendship with Aureliano Babilonia, his nephew. He becomes her best friend in childhood. He is hidden from everyone by his grandmother, Fernanda. He is strikingly similar to his namesake, the Colonel, and has the same character patterns as well. He is taciturn, silent, and emotionally charged. He only ventures into the empty town after the death of Fernanda.
When both she and her child die, he is able to decipher the parchments. His name echoes Melchizedek in the Old Testament, whose source of authority as a high priest was mysterious.
She dies some time after she turns years old she had eventually stopped counting , [12] surviving until the very last days of Macondo. The word "Ternera" in Spanish signifies veal or calf, which is fitting considering the way she is treated by Aureliano, Jose Arcadio, and Arcadio. Also, it could be a play on the word "Ternura", which in Spanish means "Tenderness". Pilar is always presented as a very loving figure, and the author often uses names in a similar fashion. She plays an integral part in the plot as she is the link between the second and the third generation of the Buendia family.
The author highlights her importance by following her death with a declaratory "it was the end. Pietro is a very handsome and polite Italian musician who runs a music school. He becomes engaged to Rebeca, but Amaranta, who also loves him, manages to delay the wedding for years. Despondent over the loss of both sisters, he kills himself. Petra is a dark-skinned woman with gold-brown eyes similar to those of a panther.
She is Aureliano Segundo's mistress and the love of his life. She arrives in Macondo as a teenager with her first husband. When she meets Aureliano Segundo, she begins a relationship with him as well, not knowing they are two different men.
He continues to see her, even after his marriage. He eventually lives with her, which greatly embitters his wife, Fernanda del Carpio. When Aureliano and Petra make love, their animals reproduce at an amazing rate, but their livestock is wiped out during the four years of rain. Petra makes money by keeping the lottery alive and provides food baskets for Fernanda and her family after the death of Aureliano Segundo. After tasting the local bananas for the first time, he arranges for a banana company to set up a plantation in Macondo.
The plantation is run by the dictatorial Mr. The banana company and the government completely cover up the event. The company arranges for the army to kill off any resistance, then leaves Macondo for good. Mauricio is a brutally honest, generous and handsome mechanic for the banana company. He has the unusual characteristic of being constantly swarmed by yellow butterflies, which follow even his lover for a time. Mauricio begins a romantic affair with Meme until Fernanda discovers them and tries to end it.
When Mauricio continues to sneak into the house to see her, Fernanda has him shot, claiming he is a chicken thief. Paralyzed and bedridden, he spends the rest of his long life in solitude. She marries him in Europe and returns to Macondo leading him on a silk leash.
He is an aviator and an adventurer. When he moves with Amaranta Ursula to Macondo he thinks it is only a matter of time before she realizes that her European ways are out of place, causing her to want to move back to Europe. However, when he realizes his wife intends to stay in Macondo, he arranges for his airplane to be shipped over so he can start an airmail service. The plane is shipped to Africa by mistake. He is the friend and comrade-in-arms of Colonel Aureliano Buendia. He fruitlessly woos Amaranta. He and Aureliano Babilonia are close friends because they know the history of the town, which no one else believes.