Active Reading- Summaries: Chapter 14

Meme grows up and graduates from college as a concert clavichordist. She has become a drunk and Aureliano wants to and tries to take care of her. He has become a more fatherly figure to Meme than to any other of his children. Aureliano continues to think about Petra for he has even decorated Meme's room the same. Meme has American friends who break through barbed wire to come see her. Meme spends a lot of time over there and she learns new things from them. Amaranta dies in this chapter, and it is kind of asurprise for she still seemed healthy. Amaranta knew she was going to die for she had already received an omen and after all this happens, Meme falls for a guy she met at a garage.