"Colonel Aureliano Buendía organized thirty-two armed uprisings and he lost them all. he had seventeen male children by seventeen different women... He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three ambushes, and a firing squad. He lived on a dose of strychnine in his coffee that was enough. to kill a horse... the man most feared by the government... Although he always fought at the head of his men, the only wound that he received was the one he gave himself... He shot himself in the chest with a pistol and the bullet came out through his back without damaging any vital organ (Márquez 103).
This piece of writing is especially interesting to me because visualizing this is awesome. To me this shows that Colonel Aureliano Buendía is a fantastic leader who has this built up fantasy like resume. Also later in the reading it goes to show how much the people of Macondo really admired him. The news of his capture during the war was "celebrated" because the people were so afraid of his death, Ursula says "Let's pray to God. for his enemies to show him clemency" (Márquez 121). Ursula also has been saving candy for him the entire time he was gone, which she delivered to him in prison as he awaited his execution. This section of writing makes me think of the most interesting man in the world from the Dos Equis commercials which were some of my favorite Super Bowl commercials growing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxgiTeXKOOc
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