Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Essay

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History 161 – Latin American History

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Directions: Please write clear and concise answers to the following questions. For most of them, several sentences or a paragraph will suffice. Make sure your answers are yours alone; do not copy another student’s answers or from the internet. Please submit your worksheet through moodle before the noon deadline.
1- How was the society in which Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman lived? Use specific examples from the book to illustrate your points.
The society of which Angela Vicario has lived and Bayardo San Roman has entered appears to be negative. Not only is this a society where women are forced into marriage by a man’s choice (Chapter 2 – Angela’s personal feelings about Bayardo does not matter to her mom), but it is a society where killing a man under honor is also acceptable (Chapter 3 – The Vicario brothers get away with the murder of Santiago because it was a honor killing).

2- What were the rights and duties of women in this society? Please use at least three quotes from the book to illustrate (cite page numbers) your answer.
Note: An eBook was purchased, page numbers may vary from the hard-copy.
If anything, the primary duty of married women was to please their husband, who “choose” her to be married with, and take care of the house she lived in.
This is evident in the book in page 29, where Angela mentions that she does not want to marry Bayardo because she doesn’t love him. Angela’s mother comes back by mentioning that “Love can be learned too.”
Also, in page 27, it was mentioned that the females of the Vicario family was thought how to do “…screen embroidery, sew by machine, weave bone lace, wash and iron, make artif...

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...he was not going to take “no” for an answer), as well as being able to “excite” most of the family implies that the expectation for women to marry rich men is essentially there. It may not necessarily be the same with other classes, but it is definitely there in this case.

5- Why was the death of Santiago Nasar foretold?
The death of Santiago Nasar was foretold because of the fact that the book was written in a format that is not linear like other books. Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells us that Santiago’s death was happening in Chapter 1, but we don’t actually see the murder (by the Vicario brothers) happen until the end of Chapter 5.
Chapter 3 Reference: “There had never been a death more foretold. After their sister revealed the name to them, the Vicario twins went to the bin in the pigsty where they kept their sacrificial tools and picked out the two best knives…”

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