Reflective Blog for Chapters 14-17:

I am really confused because I labeled my whole book with chapter’s numbers, but stupid Makella forgot one chapter, so I have always been a chapter a head somewhere in the book. If anyone read my blog thanks for leaving me a comment letting me know. I am getting bored of this book, because they have no common sense. Well Melquiades and Ursula have some, but not enough to make up for everyone else. I just get sick of how they make the same mistakes and how history repeats itself. It’s just like Things Fall Apart modernized does not work in any tribe or town. When places change drastically, it is very hard to adapt to a constant flow of new things. People end up digging a hole to big, and burring themselves. People then change not for the right reasons. They also do not things for the right reasons, this cause them to have big egos. I think that once something new is introduced, it is forever introduced. (You can not take it back). This is also a motif of the past, present and the future. Maybe if someone finds a time machine in Melquiades chamber pot room. But good luck with thatJ. This would be a good time for some magical realism. I had to force myself to read, it gave me a headache. This government has caused the town to crumble the courts, the lawyers, the petitions, the strikes, the civil wars, the banana plantation and the martial laws do not help either. A lot of people in this book are naked a lot, and a lot of people have affairs and they like to have children with people who are related to each other and there are quite a few whore archetypes. I wonder what the author message is about that. This book also has many different points of views, through the eyes of the characters. It is also interesting how the author adds Latin American culture and allusion throughout the book. I just found out that Ursula is the Protagonist meaning she is like the main character and the backbone of the whole family. The climax is the banana plantation workers go on strike and cause a massacre. I swear sometimes the author wants you to be confused, because no disrespect but he is confused himself. This I think is why he wrote the book he wants to people to see the world in not only his perspective but the characters perspectives. The archetypes that he uses are in everyday life, so that we can relate to the situations. The character obstacles, problems and perspectives are usually very similar. This is where the author grabs the reader’s attention. (I have done that, thought that, said that before).That is just how life goes no one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes. But maybe they are not as stupid as some of these people with no common sense what’s so ever! It is so interesting how Fernada got the coffins mixed up, when one is her husband. She is so indignant to the world, and she does not notice the little details in the town or in the people. (Stupid) This took my whole Friday, I am done for now. I am going to get ready for the baby bash concert. (Off topic I know it has nothing to do with OHYOS) opps!!!!

Active Blog for Chapter 14-17:

Chapter 14:

Meme's last vacation was the period of mourning for the death of CAB. A new character was introduced her name is Amaranta Ursula. Meme then got her diploma and was admired for her art. Fernanda's strictness was difficult for her she had to sacrifice a lot of things. Fernanda point of view was that her daughter instrument was a museum fossil even the nuns agreed. (Clavichord) Later her real tastes were revealed. She would go to noisy parities, learned to smoke and ended up naked measuring other friend’s body parts. (Hahaha). She finally had to courage to tell her mother that she wanted to run away from school and use it as an enema. Then Aureliano Segundo father daughter relationship began which caused misery for Fernanda and A.S characters to become sour. Meme was not beautiful, but gave a great first impression. The town continues to grow they add things like nail polish, hair curlers, toothbrushes, eye drops, cosmetics later on even cars. Fernanda true colors are starting to show she wants Meme to be deprived of love for the rest of her life. Fernanda and A.S made a promise not to take Meme to Petra cotes house. A.S and Meme relationship feel apart he wanted nothing to do with her and rarely would call her and take her to the movies. Meme also learned how to play tennis and swimming and ate pineapple and ham. (Town is really changing) Dad also bought her a 6 volume English Encyclopedia. (Interest in English). Then A.S and Meme made a promise that she would tell him about her first love affair. She started liking a lot of people and that is where the trouble began. Being very naive she’s like an American red head boy who was on vaction in Macondo, Petrica Brown and Mauricio Babilonia. She felt accomplished and she had no sign of. Then an unexpected death occurs; Amaranta's death. Fernanda cares for Jose Arcadio as a woman cares for a man instead of a grandmother for her grandchild. Fernanda wished that Rebeca would die before she did, later she died from her pleas to god. Then Amaranta signs foreshadowed her death, see felt the day coming so she announced grief and she was sharing her things with the poor (caring).Then they had a Father come to talk to her and she said that she did not need any spiritual help because she had a clean conscience. A public testimony occurred and she had asked for a mirror, surprised she saw her self aged. The silence became to darken the room. On page 128 "One minute of recognition is worth more than a whole life of friendship." Ursula torn had developed so much love for her and she taught her how to read. Ursula blind was the first to notice something was up with Meme. Sure enough Fernanda caught Meme kissing a man in the movies. She was suspicious, but she was hoping for the right moment. A.S recognized his daughter in the movies and saw her kiss him and he said sorry love and locked her up in her bedroom. Then Fernanda was introduced to a new, familiar man named Mauricio Babilonia who born and raised in Macondo. Meme knew that yellow butterflies had something to do with him, (series of events occurred) which almost caused her to to repeat what had happened to Remdious the Beauty. Fernanda said that "You can see in his face that he is going to die."At that moment Mauricio Bablonia came with a package that he said was from Patricia Brown. In the package it was notes that said meet me at the movies on Saturday. Meme convinced her father not to come. When saw a nocturnal butterfly that was the sign that M.B was there on page 288 he said "If you hadn't come, you would of never of seen me again." with his hand on her knee. She could not sleep and her appetite sank deeply into solitude. Being tricky she made a web to trick her mom. Then Meme saw Pilar Ternera (great grandmother) she told her her fortune and that she would not find love except in bed. She felt that love was on her side, Pilar then offered her bed. Meme later surrendered to Mauricio Bablonia and they had sex twice a week for three months. Fernanda surprised locked her up in her bedroom where her dad visited her and she denied everything, they relationship changed forever. Yellow butterflies would invade at dusk and Fernanda would kill them with an insecticide bomb. She then found out that her daughter and having sex, her heart froze. Pissed, not waiting for the opportune moment she invited a new mayor to lunch. She then ordered a guard that though he was busting someone for stealing hens, but found Meme naked among the scorpions and butterflies! The guard lodged a bullet in his spin and he was in bed for the rest of his life. He eventually died of old age in solitude without a moan, without a protest, without a single moment of betrayal and tormented by the yellow butterflies. He was ostracized as a chicken thief. :( (Mrs. Blaber is right she is so evil)

Chapter 15:

The first sentence of chapter 15 says that Meme Buendia son would cause the downfall of Macondo. The village has modernized more and more for an example there were names of streets, hospitals, common sense of brother-in-laws, medicine and Martial laws. Meme thought about M.B for the rest of her life until she died of old age in a gloomy hospital in Cracow. Fernanda had no contact with the outside world. She had an altercation with her husband over decided Meme’s fate. This shows A.S caring character and that he will do anything for his daughter he is willing to get the police involved. But Fernanda stated that Meme signed the paper on her own will to go to the convent, but A.S still unconvinced. Ursula living in her dark corner new she was living in dangerous times when her son Aureliano carried homeopathic pills in his pocket. She then with common sense says “It is as if the world were repeating itself.”Pg298. CAB controlled the banana company, but later workers drew up petitions. Government in Macondo clearly dose not mix, it becomes very chaotic. Strikes soon broke out, pissed off workers burned and destroyed the plantations. Then an unequal war is planned that is doomed for failure. More than 3 thousand people, workers, woman, and children come together. Then 4 machine guns aimed at the crowd cause silence. Then JAS put a kid he never meets on his shoulders so he could see what the military was saying. He heard that GCCV authorized the army to shoot them all. A captain tried to warn them said that they had five minutes to draw out. No one moved. Then one time JAS spoke up in his life, he said “Take an extra minute and stick it up your ass.”(Hahaha). A magical realism event then occurred the soldiers guns were fired, but they were filled with caps. Then panic struck everywhere. JAS later felt darkness and woke with extreme pain, and next to corpses piled like bunches of bananas, and the shadows of the soldiers with the machine guns in their hands. He then tried to convince a woman that three thousand people were dead, but she said “there has not been someone dead since your uncle.” Sofia then sneaked her son in the “chamber pot room” secretly took care of him so Fernanda would not find him. More problems with the troops occurred they were knocking on doors at night and they told everyone that “This town is a happy town”. They were able to dispose of all the union leaders except for one JAS. So in search of him, the officer went to go inspect the room in which JAS was in looking at him, he was unable to see him. Then at that moment JAS was sure the war was over but after the event he came to conclusion that CAB was a faker. He questioned why he needed so many words to describe war. He said only word was necessary was fear. Then at he discovered that the only thing he feared was being bury alive. Sofia then promised him that he would be burying dead. JAS was stuck in Melquiades room looking at the manuscripts unable to understand. The sound of rain became accustomed: it was a form of silence. The only thing that disturbed his silence was Sofia coming and going. Then stuck in the memory forever he said “There were more than 3 thousand of them”.

Chapter 16:

It has been raining for four year, eleven moths, and two days. It has not stopped since the massacre. A.S abandons his childhood from the on going rainfall, but becomes caring for his children Amaranta Ursula and Aueliano the second (that name again?). Ursula still alive but very decrypted is taken advantage of by her children. The children finally learn the stories of their ancestors. The most simplest and natural thing rain becomes very destructive and causes A.S fortune comes to a crumble, all of his animals die from the flood. Fernanda very interesting, somewhat evil character keeps in contact with her telepathic doctors. They try to heal her from a disease of the uterus and keeping herself busy causing pain to her husband. Aureliano Segundo whose tragic flaw his temper breaks everything valuable in the houses. A.S goes on a hunt to find a fortune of gold coins that Ursula hid somewhere in the backyard of the house. Rains finally end, this is where the worse is yet to come, and the town is washed away and slowing disappearing along with its people. (All that is left will be memories) (I knew it was going to happen eventually!!!)

Chapter 17:

Finally the rains have stopped, Ursula trying to make a miracle happen tries to get the house back in order. She eventually discovers JAS who has been in Melquíades room trying to decipher the ancient prophecies. Petra Cotes returned finding all of their animals dead. (Sounds like our economy crisis, we can relate). Struggling to make ends meet, they are humble and happy with the parties and falling in love with each other. A.S neglects his children (Motif: repeating history), which are aging very quickly. Aureliano the second has the same qualities of the family tall, and thin. (Motif: repeating history motif). Ursula remembers her years of solitude and eventually at 120 years old passes away. During the same time ironically Rebeca passes away too. Foreshadowing something bad is going to happen the unpredictable weather sends a heat wave to the town. The town’s people then begin that the worse is going to come, that this was a message that disease is going to stuck. (Plague)Then we are introduced to the wandering Jew that is revealed in the streets. Macondo almost destroyed in despair. A.S very poor and dying raises money to send Amaranta Ursula to go to Europe for her education. JAS after years of time and effort finally deciphers Melquíades prophecies. Almost dieing informs Aureliano the second the knowledge about the history of Macondo. Job well done he ironically dies at the same time as his twin brother JAS. JAS last words to Aureliano the second is information about the massacre of the striking workers and his terrible experience. For an interesting ending A.S and JAS coffins were mixed up, forever they were buried in the other’s grave. (Cease, cows, life is short A.S put on his coffin.)

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