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The first chapter tells of the founding of Macondo by the Buendia family along with 20 families after twenty-six month journey looking out to sea. In this chapter we meet José Arcadio Buendía, Ursula Iguarán (his wife) and Melquiades, key figure in the development of history. Macondo is described as a village of 20 houses where no one is greater than 30 years or has died. Melquiades is a gypsy who comes every year in March with the most recent discoveries and exerts strong influence over José Arcadio Buendía, who spends large amounts of gold and time to immerse themselves in the study of the inventions brought by the Gypsies, such as magnets, the glass or ice. This chapter provides evidence of the personality of these three characters and their importance in history. José Arcadio Buendía obsessed patriarch discoveries midwife Ursula practice, always busy and a great sense of hospitality and Melquiades, the gypsy whose knowledge and "powers" violate the emotional stability of José Arcadio who gives him a laboratory alchemy for his discovery, tested elsewhere, that the Earth is round.
Some critics point out that in reality Macondo is brewing in Latin America, is a mirror of our continent all in it are represented men and women but also the problems and more established American ideals....
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