Chapter 14 is about Meme, Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo's daughter. Meme has a strong relationship with her father and detests her mother. She does many activities with Aureliano Segundo and is a very smart girl. She graduates from school and is quickly makes friends with the Americans from across the electrified fence. Her new friends introduce her to tennis and swimming so she qickly forgets about the clavichord the Fernanda makes her play. Meme eventually falls in love with Mauricio Babilonia. Fernanda refuses to accept him and locks Meme in her room. When Fernanda finds out that Mauricio has been sneaking into her room she hires a gaurd who shoots Mauricio in the spine paralyzing him. Fernanda sends Meme to the city where she was born, Meme becomes a mute.
In chapter 15 José Arcadio Segundo begins to protest the banana companies inhumane working conditions and starts a revolt. The companies representatives call for a diplomatic meeting. This meeting is a trap and the 3000 workers who arrive and slaughtered by soldiers with machine guns. Jose Arcadio survives and locks himself in Melquíades' room. At the same time Fernanda recieves Meme's illigitimate child and locks him in CAB's workshop repeating the motif of solitude. Jose Arcadio tries to tell the village of the massacre he witnessed but they don't remember.
It rains for five years after the massacre at the banana plantation. The symbol of the great flood brought upon by God to wash away the sins of man. It is the beginning of the end for Macondo. Aureliano Segundo's animals are killed in the flood and he becomes poor, the banana plantation is washed away as well, Macondo is in poverty. Ursula slowly begins to fade away but remains alive, her family struggles to provide for thier children, the Segundo twins finally pass away, at the exact same time. Thier bodies are confused and they are buried in each others graves. Meme's illigitimate son was named Aureliano II and was educated by Jose Arcadio before he passed.
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