Reflective Blog Chapters 6-10

In Chapters six through ten, a lot of things are happening. Arcadio turns into a straight jerk (a nice word for him), and becomes all power-obsessed. He turns crazy I guess, just to be all powerful. It went to his head. Especially when he tries to sleep with his own mother, Pilar. But she cuts him out, and sends some other virgin, and he marries her and impregnates her with girl. Amaranta turns down Pietro but I do not understand why. She is in love with him, and yet she makes herself unhappy by turning him down. I do not get it.
It was weird that even though Ursula had whipped Arcadio, he pushed her out of danger. He was killed but he still had his head up when it happened. But it sucked that his daughter was not named his dying wish name. It also was sad that Colonel Aureliano got captured and was almost sentenced to death. But then it turned out that they were all on the Liberal side. That was real good. At least the family did not have to keep mourning for a death once again. But that did not last long. I was shocked when Jose Arcadio was killed, and no one knew who did it. It was even worse that Rebeca locked herself in her home, and that she just like gave up on life. That was real unfortunate. And then more death occurred. JAB died. That was too bad, because he was the start of this crazy, big, weird, and very complicated family. Eww, it was nasty to read that Amaranta and Aureliano Jose were messing around when they were aunt and nephew. Why does that keep happening? Did the author really think that people were going to like the incest drama? Uh, I hope not. That is not something that is really interesting, and it is very disgusting. And then seventeen different sons of Colonel Aureliano turned up. I was like damn, how many different women did he sleep with? And did he intentionally spread his seed around the country or what? And what keeps going on with Amaranta? Why is she determined to keep herself unhappy? She keeps turning down these guys, so it must mean that she wants to die alone. It is funny that the twins were so alike growing up, and then so different as they grew older. And why was Aureliano 2nd’s wife okay with him being with Petra? Yeah, it’s true, Petra made him all successful, but why you any woman let her husband carry on an affair in the open? I mean she did know right, Fernanda knew, right? Or was I reading too much in between the lines? But so far, I do like the book. It is interesting and I now see the point of the title, One Hundred Years of Solitude. This is my reflective blog for chapters six through ten.