FINAL AR--- Summaries

Summaries
Chp.11-20
Chp.11
This chapter starts off by introducing Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo. It goes on to state the problems with Petra and how she plays into the situation. Fernanda is about to leave because of the disrespect by her husband until he goes out and finds her in town. He looks throughout the town for her and when he finds her, they marry each other. After this, the reader is able to see the two move apart more in feelings and their relationship together. He immedietly went back to Petra as soon as their honeymoon was over. She gets pregnant and gives birth to Renata Remedios also known as Meme and Jose Arcadio also known as baby Jose. Amaranta talks the 17 children into coming to church with her to receive ashes. Her father, Don Fernando, would sell things so his daughter could have fine things. Her family placed the idea that she was going to be queen and her classmates believed it as well. She realized as time went on that things were going to not be the same as they all had believed they should of her. They find that in one of the houses they are looking at, they find Rebeca, and run away when she threatens to shoot. There is a railroad built and and newcomers are all the time coming into the place.

Chp.12
It starts off with the introduction of different inventions and things to Macondo and it changes alot of the ways that things are happening in this town. Macondo now has movie theaters, hookers and imports as some of the new things they can exprience. All of this makes JAB wander through the house. When a man named Mr. Herbert came and fell in love with the bananas in the town, he left bringing back numerous amounts of people, whom eventually start a banana factory. Remedios the Beauty is unaware of what is happening around her and goes to heaven and never comes back. She made man after man fall in love with her and everyone who did only ended up getting into trouble. Colonel Aureliano Buendia begins to make threats of going to war again, using his sons as troops.

Chp.13
This chapter is uneventful in many ways. The reader only sees the children of Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda grow up and get older. They each go off to school, Jose Arcadio to go off and become the pope and Meme goes off to school and learn to be a proper lady. Fernanda takes the opportunity of Ursula's sickness to force her lifestyle upon the Buendia family. Aureliano Segundo disagrees with these actions and leaves the house to stay Petra Cotes and competes in eating contests where he begins to think that he is dying. Jose Arcadio Segundo comes to talk to Colonel Aureliano but he continues his life of solitude and his hobby of making gold fish slowly comes to a stop. He soon dies afterwards.

Chp.14
Meme arrives home during the mourning period of her uncle. Meme undergoes tasks such as playing the clavichord for the pleasures of her mom, Fernanda, while she is at home. Shortly after the first morning period, Amaranta dies and the family goes back into morning. But during this period, Meme becomes very close with her father and she and him go out and do a lot of things with each other. Maurcio Babilonia is the man that she falls madly in love with and can't stay away from. Aureliano Segundo got so fat that he could barely tie his shoes. Aureliano Triste made a prediction that Amaranta was going to die before she was suppossed to have. When this happens she has him sneak into the house through a secret way that lets into the bathroom. When the mother finds out about that, she has him shot the next day. When he was shot he was paralyzed for the rest of his life.

Chp.15
Meme’s illegitimate son by Mauricio was brought to the house. Meme is forced to live in the city her mother was born in and has to become a nun there. Aureliano was then locked into the old silver workshop of CAB and begins his life of solitude and quietness. Jose Arcadio Segundo on the other hand is defending his plantation workers because they are getting treated unfairly. The people fixed the rebellions by giving the strikers five minutes to end it and when they didn’t, they were all shot down and put on a train to be thrown in the sea. Jose Arcadio Segundo was the only survivor, but when he woke up on the train, he went into shock. When the train stopped he walked all the way back to the village.

Chp.16
Aureliano Segundo returns to his house for a little bit, but is then stuck at his house when it starts to rain for 5 years. Ursula is growing more senile and talks the kids. They learn from her the many different types of stories. Aureliano Segundo took him in and accepted him and would take him and his younger daughter, Amaranta Ursula, and show them pictures in the encyclopedia. One day Fernanda works her husband to much that he breaks everything that has any value to her, just to try toget her attention and make her enraged. Aureliano went back to Petra and stayed for three months believing that he married “Jonah’s wife”. A.S lost a lot of weight and was beginning to resemble his twin brother again. Aureliano Segundo tries to find the money in gold coins that Úrsula hid in the backyard. Petra begins raffling off animals to bring in a little joy to the town and get more money to repair the damages made by the storms.

Chp.17
Aureliano Segundo ruins everything within their house and Ursula attempts to fix the house up again. She is out of bed for the first time since her daughter's death and finds Jose Arcadio Segundo locked up. He tells her that he doesn't want to come out of here. Ursula had him cleaned and shaved and left him alone with noticing that he has a similar fear to CAB when it involves leaving the room. Unfortunately Ursula dies at 120 years oldas well as Rebeca. Aurelino fears that after Ursula he too will die, so he tries to work to get the money to send Amaranta Ursula to school. His twin Jose Arcadio Segundo is dying and figures out Melaquiades' writings and tells Baby Aureliano to follow through with them. Fernanda didn’t allow Petra to attend the Funeral and when its time to bury the twins, they are mixed up in their graves.

Chp.18
Aureliano found comfort in the room of Melquaides. He was always reading everything so much that he keeps the knowledge everything of the medieval times.Fernanda and Sofia are left to keep up their buisness and make things go no in life. Aureliano talked to Melquiades as well as he gave the boy tips on how to decode the manuscripts. Sofia up and leaves the Buendia family, shortly after Fernanda dies. After the death of Fernanda, Jose Arcadio arrives back at the house and wants to take everything back into his control. Aureliano is banished to his room from the first time Jose Arcadio sees him. Jose Arcadio starts to become friends with little kids in the town, and has them come over all the time. There would be parties thrown with the money that Ursula has left to them and the little kids couldn't get enough of it all.

Chp.19
Amaranta Ursula finally returns with her new husband tied with a leash named Gaston. She came back with spirits that were unbelievably high and wanted live in the town that she thought was so beautiful. Beginning to fix up the house, she threw away a lot of useless things except for the picture of Remedios. Aureliano stayed in the same room and study the manuscripts determined to make them out. Aureliano searched the streets determined to find anyone who remembered his family, but it seemed as if no one knew who they were. Aureliano realized that he had really strong feelings for Amaranta, whom he did not know was his aunt to him. He took refuge in talking with his great- great- grandmother that he wasn’t aware of of having. Amaranta took the leash off her husband believing that he would remain honest and faithful. Aureliano forces himself onto Amaranta who tries to refuse but eventually gives in.

Chp.20
Pilar Ternera dies at the age of approximately between 120 and 145 and is buried sitting in her rocker chair. One by one Aureliano's friends leave, eventually making the town empty and without any inhabitants. He was content with the relationship he had with Amaranta whom he was now involved with. She becomes pregnant with Aureliano's baby and they tell her husband, who is not really upset about it all, pratically telling them that everything is okay and that there is no problems. When Amaranta Ursula gives birth to the baby they notice the pig tail on the baby. It is exactly as people had said that once would happen to someone. She dies due to loss of blood because of child birth and Amaranta and Gaston went their separate ways and she became involved with Aureliano more seriously. When he realizes he left his son somewhere, it’s too late because the baby’s body is carried off by ants. He then shuts himself up to finish translating the scrolls and realizes that on the scrolls is his family's history.