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Chapter 13
Meme's last vacation was the period of mourning for the death of CAB. An 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 friends 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 an 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 like a 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 a 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 a 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 right she is so evil)