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Chapter Of Gypsies
Chapter 1 the story is introduced through the character Colonel Aureliano Buendía, who recollects a time when he was at a much younger age, near when the town of Macondo was founded
Macondo was founded by Colonel Aureliano Buendia’s father, Jose Arcadio Buendia
The Colonel talks about how his father had a drive to expand his own knowledge, which lead to his solitude. Jose becomes withdrawn from the world.
Jose leads an expedition to the north with the hope of establishing contact with other civilizations.
Jose returns his attention to his children and then learns that the leader of the gypsies, Melquiades is dead.

Chapter 2
Starts off farther back in time, before Ursula and Jose were married.
Jose and Ursula are cousins
Jose and Ursula are afraid to have
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Happiness descends over the town with the upcoming weddings.
Pilar ternera hold Aureliano’s baby
Jose Arcadio Buendias becomes insane after having spent so much time researching.
He is tied to the tree in the back yard for the rest of his days.
Chapter 5
Remedios and Aureliano get married and Rebeca's wedding is delayed
Remedios is very nice and decides to raise Aureliano’s bastard as her own
Remedios suddenly passes away
The Buendias house is mourning the passing of Remedios which delays Rebeca’s Wedding
The priest that is building the church realizes that Jose Arcadio Buendias is not as mad as everyone think because is speaking in latin not gibberish
Jose Arcadio returns and is gigantic and has tattoos all over his body
Rebeca becomes swooned by Jose Arcadio’s manliness and they begin a affair that leads to Ursula exiling them from the house
There is an approaching war between the conservative government and the liberal rebels
Aureliano takes the liberal rebel side and becomes the leader of the small rebel force, giving him the title Colonel Aureliano

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