Chapter 12 is about the train and how in infulences the Buendia family. At first people are excited with the new technology and people that arrive in Macondo such as the phonograph and the movies. The new events like the arrivial of the circus is much like the gypsis that traveled to Macondo it the time of JAB's rain as patriarch. Unfortuneately for the original inhabitants of Macondo many forigners like Mr. Brown and hookers. Mr. Brown started a banna plantation and devided Macondo in two by building another town on the other side of the river. The other shady forigners littered the town and Macondo became a dangerous place. CAB decides to start a new war but not even Colonel Marquez would back him up. Soon after an unknown group of assassins kills all but one of his sons who had ashes on their heads. An unfortuneate event that proves the new dangerous nature of Macondo.
Chapter 13 is more about CAB, Ursula, and Remedios the Beauty. After unsucessfully trying to start a new war CAB locks himself into his workshop all day and night only leaving to pee on JAB's tree. He repeats the continuous cycle of making gold two goldfish every day until one day he goes out to take a leak and dies. Remedos contunues her carefree aditude by doing nothing all day by herself. She is so beautiful that she kills one man who falls through the roof and cracks his head, and then another who touches her and gets his lungs crushed by a horse. Ursula outlives CAB but is now completely blind. She dosen't tell anyone so they wont think she is useless. She continues to care for her famliy despite her handicap and uses the her intuition and the repetiveness of her families rutine to find her way around.
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