Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

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The “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” is a murder mystery. The creator, Gabriel Garcia Marquez begins with the death of a character and from that point he starts describing the scenes with different characters. This enables him to show different point of views and interpretations of the events from his characters. With these interpretations, the reader starts to gather an understanding of the type of town they are living in, along with a better understanding of the beliefs and values that the townspeople feel strong about. Marquez presents several themes in the story, before the finish of the story, each of these topics has been renounced by his characters. He presents the story like this to keep the reader thinking and wondering what is truly going on in the small town. Marquez uses gossip, honor, and …show more content…

An example of one the themes is that the townspeople believes powerfully about respecting honor and will go to extremely far measures to maintain a certain level of honor. Even through honor is a big deal in the society it is often interpreted to the towns liking. Garcia Marquez describes a society in which all the townspeople know about the murder that will occur but the man who will be killed until it's past the point of no return. This is one of many ironies in the book that everybody is so anxious to discuss the murder, yet nobody will discuss it to the killer or the person to be killed. “He died without understanding his own death” (Marquez 101). This is the narrator assessment of Santiago's perspective as he confronted

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