I found the first two chapters to be interesting and intertaining. The continous falures of Jose, and the repition of his falures via his decendants is unfortuneate but a vital in contributing to the theme of repition that Marquez centered One Hundred Years of Solitude on. I think that Jose should concentrate on raising his family and appreciating the patience and hard work of his wife rather than focousing on his wild ambitions of mastering alchamy and science. I think Ursula is an extremely important unsung character in Marquz's epic because of her steadfast loyalty and dedication. I find it hard to beleive that she could stand by her husband after all the foolish things he attempted. She is also a loving parent, looking for her son for five months,(despite abandoning the rest of her family).
Another unforuneate twist to the book is the dissapearence of Jose II. Because he shared the same traits of his father he could have been the future matriarch of Macondo. If given the right direction he could have become a great political leader like his younger brother who bacame a military leader. I have come to enjoy the magical realism of the book and the mystical adventures that always follows the arival of the gypsies. Jose's misguided attempts to advance on the gypsies new technology is humorous but unfortuneate. I think the best proof of Jose's incompetence is when he left on an expidition to find civilization but only found a dirty ocean and when his wife found a town two days away on a unprepared hystarical search for her son.
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