"The events that would deal Macondo its fatal blow were just showing themselves when they brought Meme Buendia’s son home." Fernanda does not want the child, Aureliano, to stay in their home, but can't drown it because of the guilt she feels. She told everyone that she found in a basket, she kept him in Colonel Aureliano's workshop. Fernanda and Meme travel far to a distant place, she leaves Meme there by herself to live in shame. Fernanda returns to find the town filled with tension. JAS (Jose Arcadio Segundo) has instigated a strike among the plantation workers. It is resolved weeks later, they get a day off now.
AS (Aureliano Segundo) is upset that Fernanda sent his daughter, but dares not go against her.
JAS leads another strike against the banana plantation. This time he is not that successful. His complaints are met with gunfire. JAS is the only survivor of the massacre. He returns home to hide, but is discovered by the soldiers. He hides in Melquiades' room, which is immortal just him. JAS then starts to read the notes on the table becoming interested in the documents.
Magical Realism: Melquiades room being immortal. The yellow butterfly flying into the fan is symbolic of Maurico death.
Theme: Man Vs. Authority, This focuses on the clashes between the people with power and the ones without it.
Character Development: Fernanda, again, shows her power as matriarch. JAS starts to act like a Jose Arcadio and AS likewise.
Quotes: "She was still thinking about Mauricio Babilonia, his smell of grease, and his halo of butterflies, and she would keep on thinking about him for all the days of her life until the remote autumn morning when she died of old age, with her name changed and her head shaved and without ever having spoken a word, in a gloomy hospital in Cracow." Meme never speaks to her mother after she sends her away, and dies there.
"An anarchist in the family." Fernanda commeting on JAS's a behavior.
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