Chapter 15
I. Elements of Magical Realism
l “It had not rained for three months and there had been a drought. But when Mr. Brown announced his decision a torrential downpour spread over the whole banana region…a week later it was still raining” Pg.309 this is magical realism. It suddenly started raining to exaggerate the situation and kept raining without stopping for a week cannot be true in reality.
II. Characters
l Fernanda- takes meme to where she was born
l Meme- spend the rest of her life thinking about Mauricio Babilonia
l Jose Arcadio Segundo- leads a protest however it doesn’t succeed.
l Ursula Iguaran- thinks her husband went crazy
III. Plot Summary
Fernanda takes meme on a long trip back to where she was bornand raised. Meme spends the rest of her life thinking about Mauricio Babilonia. At that time José Arcadio Segundo has been planing the banana plantation workers for a strike of the inhumane working conditions. The meeting was always surrounded by army workers with machine guns and ends up kills them all. The bodies are collected onto a train and dumped into the sea. José Arcadio Segundo was also is thrown onto the train as well, but he manages to jump off the train and walk back to Macondo. None of the people of Macondo remember what happened, and deny to what Jose tells them. Soon José Arcadio Segundo lives only for the study of his texts and to keep the memory of the people who died.
IV. Quotes
l “You must have been dreaming…Nothing has happened in Macondo, nothing has ever happened in Macondo, nothing will ever happen” pg.310 It is interesting how people ignore or doesn’t even try to listen to him but just believe in their town.
l “There must even be snakes in here” pg.312 I like it because of the exaggeration to show that it is old and it looks like no one has been living there for years.
V. Themes
l Ignorance- no one tried to listen to Jose when he was explaining the situation that happened.
l Loss of sanity- he loses sanity and locks himself in a room to study.
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