100 Years of Solitude 6-10

These chapters focus a lot on the corruption of war and motherhood. Aureliano becomes heavily involved in the war, and eventually becomes one of the most important figures of the Liberal side. The book says that he joins this side because they have more humanitarian qualities, but his intent becomes tainted later. He himself admits that he now only fights because of his pride. The novel also plays with the sense of motherhood and time. I get the impression that the founding mothers in the village are living for such a long time that they have a pretty clear view of how the war has messed with their children. If anyone's relatives could rise from the dead, I think many of them would have the same reaction--except the difference here is that the mothers are living long enough to see it happen. As a result, the mothers in this novel seem to represent the moral conscience of Macondo and making sure it doesn't completely loose its original identity.