"When José Arcadio Segundo came to he was lying face in the darkness. He realized that he was riding on an endless and silent train and that his head was caked with dry blood and that all his bones ached. He felt an intolerable desire to sleep. Prepared to sleep for many hours, safe from the terror and horror, he made himself comfortable on the side that pained him less, and only then did he discover he was lying against dead people" (306)
This excerpt was pretty wild to read about because as soon as José becomes conscious, he is automatically traumatized with what has happened. Márquez doesn't beat around the bush at all about how José is feeling; he makes it seem like a couple hours of rest will save him from reality, but again he gives José the thought of about where he actually is. Marquez continues to show how much of an impact the massacre had on Jose because of how it made him become a hermit; It was unbearable for José that so many people have lost their lives for fighting in what they believed in. I think Marquez is writing this way to show readers how an event so tragic can cause somebody to lose their sanity and that this conflict effects many generations after the generation involved just because its within the family's history.
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