Themes
Chp.11-20
Chp.11
Resentment seems to be the running theme in this chapter and the source of jealousy for many people in this town. Fernanda is jealous of the fact that Aurelino and Petra are together and happy. They are always together and not worrying about anything, except Fernanda wants her man back in her life more. Everything with Petra is better and the love he feels for her is stronger than for Fernanda. People also start to believe that the way the acted, such as Colonel and the war, was for nothing. It was just the going back and feeling like there was a sense of resentment in their life with everything. Rebeca begins her life of solitude to preserve everything that is life in her life.
Chp.12
Change begins to happen with the town and all the new things that are coming into Macondo. Colonel Aurelino is about trying to fix every injustice from war. And his goal in life is to fix everything that he did wrong in the first war and now he wants to start a new one. Everything is becoming updated and people are dying, so this all will cause to make something different out of life.
Chp.13
People all seem to be falling into the same trend of solitude and not being bothered with people. Nobody really wants to be bothered with things in life and everyone just kind of pushes it to the side and never deals with it all the way. Even later on in the book, the son begins a life of not socialing with anyone either.
Chp.14
Nobody in this chapter is having good luck and ending up with either a death or another misfortune. For instance, Amaranta and the way that she gets they main she loves paralyzed by a shooting. All the women seem to be having to give up the men they love and the way that they will have to live their life will efiantly be different. Misfortune and bad luck was doomed to them as early as the father being called insane and tied to a tree.
Chp.15
People begin to lie about their lives and the way that they are functioning for everything. Fernanda for instance with baby suppossedly begin found in the river. And the workers at the Banana Factory were decieved into this job and pushed into making it the way they wanted. And the ones who were left on the train were killed and they thought differently as the town.
Chp.16
The theme in this chapter is renewal. It seemed as though when the rain came the people got washed out of all the bad things in life. And then it is as if it was a sign to people to shape up or ship out of life. And things in life were like starting over after the rain had come.
Chp.17
Solitude and lose of being a person.
Chp.18
Sofia leaves the family and really doesn't tell any reasons for doing what they may have. Fernanda abandons her life when she feels she has nothing more to live for. Everyone is living and walking away from other people and not sticking it out for the long run.
Chp.19
INCEST! Need I say more? There is no explaination for all of this nasty stuff.
chp.20
Tragedy for the fact that the whole town gets wiped out and the majority of the main people get killed off. It shouldn't have to be that way for anyone.
1 comment:
ch.11-20 grade: A
Final AR grade: A
Outstanding work! I'm so proud of you. Well done, well organized, and well developed!
In terms of themes: I would pick one that makes the most sense to you. Pick one that you can pick apart and analyze. Identity, or lack thereof, the ways in which sexuality drives the book and why (procreation or the inability to create something new are ideas for that one), the way history repeats itself (that's the idea of time being cyclical), and of course solitude and the many ways it's manifested in the text (and why), are all themes that you could explore. Pick ONE (two at the most, if they are related,) research it, and use what you find to support your arguments.
Hope this helps!
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