This book was hard to understand. From what I can piece together, this one family has seen multiply deaths and tragedies in a short lifetime. All the men had the same names, Jose Arcadio or Aureliano. I had to reread few sections just to know which was speaking or who the action was happening to. The man in the family died first, while the women lived for a long time. This just like in my family, the men in my family dies first while the women always have to wait and live on without them.
I think this story happens during the 1800s to the 1900s based on the information that was given about the first time they are seeing and hearing about these new inventions. The men in the family liked to have sex with other females of their family, They has sex with their sister, aunts and cousins. The second generation of this family, Colonel Aureliano and his brother, Jose Arcadio slept with the same woman and had a child with her.
While I was reading, I was trying to figure out what I was reading. By the end of the story, none of the other members of the small town remember the Buendia’s’ and the war they fought in. I would think they would remember the family who has the most bad luck in the whole town but that is just me. My favorite part I think would be when the youngest Aureliano was trying to be a bad ass and his grandmother, Ursula, came after him with a whip and dared him to have a family friend killed. She whipped him in front of all the men at the boot camp and everyone knew that she was in charge.