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Power is not given yet it is transferred from one source to another. Ursula Buendia acquires her power from her husband in a series of events. First Jose Arcadio I Buendia goes senile and the role as head of the family and the power that comes with this role is tr ....

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.... many other Mocondo villagers just become idle. Ursula ses her personal power when her 17 grandsons are executed and yet she remains calm and collected. Ursula not only uses her power to help herself she maintains it for nearly a century. Incredibly Ursula is able to maintain her power for more then three generations after the death of Jose. Ursula accomplishes this not by making decisions that are always necessarily agreed upon but by standing by her decisions and not wavering. When money is found in a statue of Saint Joseph, whose owner is unknown, Ursula decides to bury the money, which she believes, is not rightfully theirs. Her ch ....