100 Years of Solitude, day 2

So far, there has been mystical intervention into the course of the characters' lives. For example in ch. 10, one of the twins (sons of Arcadio and Pilar Ternera), Aureliano Segundo, enters the gypsy Melquiade's room, which had been padlocked since his death. The room is clean without signs of age. Everything is left as it was. Aureliano Segundo becomes interestedc in the papers and manuscripts, including the stories of the gypsies' visits to Macando. After continued interest in the manuscriots, Melquiade began to appear and to converse with Aureliano Segundo. As when other dead characters appear in the novel, the author portrays them as alive and vibrant, not as ghosts. Even though they are dead, they are still active characters in the novel.

Early in the novel, when the young Rebeca first arrives, the loss of memory is the result of the plague of insomnia. The theme of amnesia is again evident and seems to be used for the main characters of older Rebeca and Colonel Aureliano Buendia to close out pain. After Jose Arcadio is shot, Rebeca becomes a hermit. In pages 156 and 157, Rebeca is writing past memories and seems aware of the current war and the world around her.

In ch. 9, when Colonel Buendia is crushed by the futility of the years of war, he comes home and seems unable to connect with his past, his family, and his interest in his old alchemy laboratory.