INDUSTRY

COLLIN AND MEGAN :) :)
 * POSITIVE ||   NEGATIVE   ||
 * 1.    POWER  ||  POWER  ||
 * 2.    CONTROL  ||  CORRUPTIVE, CONTROLLING  ||
 * 3.    WEALTH  ||  TAKES AWAY INNOCENCE  ||
 * 4.    PROGRESS  ||  CHANGE  ||
 * 5.    MODERNIZATION  ||  LOSS OF SIMPLE FAMILY/ HOME LIFE  ||
 * 6.    GIVES PEOPLE OPPORTUNITIES  ||
 * Enviornmental effects, ie: pollution, deforestation** ||
 * 7.    ADVANCEMENT OF CULTURE  ||
 * Cultural Division** ||
 * 8.    DIVERSITY  || ||
 * 9.    CHANGE  || ||
 * 10. Building Economic System ||  ||

**POSITIVE:** The idea of industrialization modernizing society is present throughout the book. Macondo starts off very innocent; knowing really nothing of the outside world. The town in very isolated and alone. People don't leave and the only people who come in are the gypsies. The gypsies are the first "industry" of Macondo. They bring in the outside world. The gypsies bring their discoveries that fascinate the innocent citizens of Macondo. When Jose Arcadio Buendia takes his sons to see the ice he describes it as "...the greatest invention of our time." (p. 18) Macondo is learning and using these modern advances in their daily life, which is definetly a positive, beneficial thing. The next big industry was the train which was brought to Macondo by Aureliano Triste. He was producing ice and needed a way to send it out of Macondo to expand his business. On page 221, he says, "We have to bring in the railroad." After several months, a frightened woman exclaims, "It's coming. Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it." It was the arrival of Aureliano Triste along with a large yellow train. This is the start of the new industry in Macondo. This completely changes Macondo. New people come in like the Turks, the prostitutes, and eventually Mr. Herbert and Mr. Brown who become interested in turning Macondo into a banana plantation. This train introduces Macondo into the modern, industrial world. It puts their town on the map. People are coming in and out as they please. The citizens are no longer artless (hey hey mr. mullen), they know of the outside world and are involved. Macondo is no longer isolated and curled up by itself, but constantly growing and bettering itself. One last instance of industry helping Macondo modernize was the banana plantations.Mr. Herbert enjoyed the bananas of Macondo so much, he brought Mr. Brown and several lawyers to start the plantation. Workers were brought in, enough to form a whole new town. This shows modernization because before it was always just Macondo, and now they have a neighboring town. The plantation also brings new leaders with different styles of government which is something new and progressive. There are also all sorts of new people from different cultures. Citizens of Macondo are shown diversity which is a huge part of modern society. Others, for example Meme, learned a lot from the workers. Meme learned some English and studied from the encyclopedias we recievied which shows education modernizing, The plantation brings wealth and capitalism to Macondo as well. As shown, industry completely transforms Macondo from this innocent little city to a modern city with government and economy. The change is not all good, but it was important to modernize the city.

Bringing industry into rural and/or povern areas can be a positive thing as Megan commented on above, yet there are a handful of negative consequenes that come along with such change. The main point I wanna focus on is the loss of Culture and Innocence. Macondo was a "primitive" and steadfast village that grew into a corupt ditch due to industrialization. The modern world "had its way" with pure Latin America begining with the development of a railroad system. In the HarperPerennial edition on page 238, the very first taste of the outside world was taken. Garcia explains, reerring to Aureliano Triste, ''' It was then that he thought of the decisive step, not only for the modernization of his business but to link the town with the rest of the world. "We have to bring in the railroad,"he said."' Bringing in the railroad system brought work and money into Macondo, yet it also lost it's reign on cultural conservation. A chain-reaction of modernization was quick to start like a dominoe effect as soon as the first track was put in place. Updates such as the factory, foreign currency, entertainment, cars, and most of all: Foreign policies. The Banana Factory corrupted the village and raped the town of its' untouched innocence. It literally in the end left the town worse then it was when it started. Citizens were victimized into being a part of a import and export system that tore tehn apart from the inside-out. The factory not only took advantage of the land, but with it's exit, it took 3,000 victims which were swept under the rug like dust and forgotten about. The railroad was a turning point for the town. Before it's arrival, Macondo was a thriving city that was sustainable upon it's own resources and means of life. But, as the railroad brought it's own baggage to the town, Macondo was drained of it's life both literally and figurtivly.
 * Negative:**