Ursula is infuriated that she has been used like a doll by the children, her face was painted. She finds the house in ruins, because of AS looking for the gold. Ursula continues to inspect the house and finds JAS. In has not left the room since he entered; his teeth are rotten and he hasn't showered. Ursula yells at him and tells him take a bath, but he will not, saying that "he did not want to see the train with two hundred cars loaded with dead people which left Macondo every day at dusk on its way to the sea." Ursula is cheered up by the news that Jose Arcadio would come the visit Macondo. Her happiness doesn't last long because she finds out that AS destroyed the front porch. In all the confusion in the house AS leaves back to live with Petra. Money from the livestock is slow, so AS starts selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a pig or any other animal. It soon turns into a big festival, people kill the animals they win and get some liquor. AS tries to find out why the animals are not breeding like they used to; they think it is because their animalistic lust has been replaced with love.
AS is so distracted with the raffles , he doesn't relieves that Amaranta Ursula has started school. However, Fernanda does not allow Little Aureliano to go to school saying "that she had already relented too much in letting him leave the room." Ursula's brain has gone, she confuses Little Aureliano with Colonel Aureliano and she continues to see dead people. Something weird happens soon after,"Little by little she was shrinking, turning into a fetus, becoming mummified in life to the point that in her last months she was a cherry raisin lost inside of her nightgown, and the arm that she always kept raised looked like the paw of a marimonda monkey" Ursula has finally died, coincidentally JAS, AS, and Rebeca die shortly after. JAS dies interpreting the secret to immortality; AS dies at the same time as JAS, he dies making love to Petra; and Rebeca just dies.
Magical Realism: Ursula shrinking and when she dies birds fly into buildings killing themselves.
Theme: This continues the theme of "in with the new, out with the old". The old generation is completely gone and a new regime is in power.
Character Development: Members of the new generation are starting to accept the attributes attached with their names.
Quotes: "She was too old then and living on borrowed time to repeat the miracle of the little candy animals, and none of her descendants had inherited her strength. The house stayed closed on Fernanda’s orders." Ursula has lost all power in the house.
"they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed" Petra and AS talking about their love making.
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