Active Reading for Chpt. 14-17

Chapter 14 Summery- Fernanda gives birth to a baby girl, named Amaranta Ursula, against Fernandas wishes. Meme finishes school and comes back to Macondo where she develops a secret love affair with Mauricio Babilonia. Fernanda catches them together at the movies one Saturday night and forbids Meme to see him. Mauricio tries to make amends with Fernanda, but she rejects and sends him away. Amaranta receives an omen about her death, she will die at duck on the day that she finishes her shroud. Determined to atone her cruelty on others Amaranta would deliver "one last favor to the world, and she thought that no one was in a better position to take letters to the dead." Fulfill her omen Amaranta died at dusk, on the day she finish her shroud. Indifferent to her mothers forbidding, Meme would meet Mauricio every night around seven when she supposedly took her shower. After a couple months of these secret meetings Fernanda found out. She invited the new mayor to lunch the next day and asked him to station a guard in the backyard because she thought someone was stealing chickens. When Maurcio came to meet Meme the guard shot him. Crippling him for the rest of his life.
Chapter 15 Summery- Fernanda sends Meme away to her old school that she used to go to when she was young. After Maurcios shooting Meme never spoke and resorted to bitterness, depression and solitude, like that of Amaranta. Meme gives birth to a son who is sent back to Macondo where Fernanda grudgingly cares for him. Jose Arcadio Segundo starts a strike with the laborers of the Banana Company. JAS goes into hiding after a rival party tries to kill him. JAS assembled another revolt, this time about lack of sanitary facilities, no medical services, terrible working conditions, and no good pay. All rebels were sent to jail. The Banana Company laborers forced the company owners to sign tuition's backing them up. At court ,however, the company owners would either deny it or pretend that they are not the company owners and that they were someone else. The workers sabotaged the plantations when the army came to harvest it. The government ordered a massacre of all of the rebels and all those who chose to go down with them. The government then covered the Massacre by sending out proclamations stating that the workers went home peacefully. JAS is the only survivor of three thousand. Macondo doesn't know what happened. JAS resorted into solitude in Melquidaes's old room.
Chapter 16 Summery- It had rained for four years in Macondo. Driven from boredom Aureliano Segundo became very handy around the house. He adjusted hings, oiled locks, screwed knockers tight. Aureliano Segundo took up the responsibility of his new grandson and daughter. Colonel Gerineldo Marquez died. Aureliano Segundo went back to Pietra Cotes and soon discovered that all of his animals had died because of the rain and he no longer shared an intimate passion with Peitra. Aureliano went back to Fernanda and his original family house and scummed into a great laziness very much like Jose Arcadio Buendia. After Fernandas irritating daily complains Aureliano Segundo had an anger fit and later returned with plenty of food she had complained about. The owners of the life size plaster Saint Joseph is still a mystery. Ursula will not say the whereabouts of the statue. Determined Aureliano Segundo tried to find it. In June on a Friday it had finally ceased to rain.
Chapter 17 Summery- After the rains has stopped Ursula had finally gotten out of her bed. she had been there since Amaranta died. At nearly the age of one hundred thirty Ursula worked hard in vain to restore the home of her youth. Ursula died on the morning of good Friday. Aureliano Segundo received an omen that he would die very soon. Before his omen could come true, Aureliano Segundo worked twice as hard so that he could send Amaranta Ursula to Brussels to finish her schooling, like he had promised her. As soon as she had left both Aureliano Segundo and Jose Arcadio Segundo died at the same time. Identical just as they had arrived into the world they left in identical coffins. "The sad drunkards who carried them out of the house got the coffins mixed up and buried them in the wrong graves.