Active Reading: Chapter Fourteen

ACTIVE READING: CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Quotes
"Don't worry, the first thing I'll do when I get there is to ask for him and give him your message."
Amaranta is anticipating death, almost looking forward to it, and here is offering to take messages from loved ones to their friends and/or family who have died. Strangely, she is 100% fine with the thought of her death, accepts it, and is ready for her time to come that evening.

Magical Realism
Amaranta's positive, upbeat attitude that lasts until moments before her death. It is surprising that someone would have this outlook on an appending death.

Themes
Death and birth. This happened before in Solitude as well, and it is happening again. In the wake of Colonel Aureliano Buendia dying and Amaranta awaiting her death, Fernanda del Carpia and Aureliano Segundo give birth to another child, whom they name Amaranta Ursula.

Character Development
Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo have another child. Amaranta dies, and Ursula becomes bed ridden. However, she does become close to Amaranta Ursula, the daughter or Fernanda del Carpia and Aureliano Segundo. Meme grows up more, getting closer to her father partly because they both hate Fernanda. Also, Meme falls in love with a plantation worker.

Summary
In chapter fourteen, Amaranta realizes that she is soon to die and accepts the fact. She is ready to go, almost to the point of jubilance and excitement. This masks her feelings of a lonely, fruitless life. Before this occurs, Fernanda del Carpia and Aureliano Segundo have another daughter who they name Amaranta Ursula. The matriarch of the family, Ursula, becomes bed ridden but manages to develop a good relationship with the young girl. The girl appreicates Ursula's contributions to the family and looks up to her. Remedios the Beauty gets closer with her father, and manages to fall in love with a worker of the banana plantation. They have to sneak around in order to have a "relationship," but eventually the man is shot by a guard when he is suspected of having sex with Meme.