Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Essay

Literature has the ability to capture a panorama -- one in which a reader can see all the beauty and the suffering within an author’s background. Panoramas encapsulate an unbroken image of an entire vista in the perspective of the original observer. Gabriel García Márquez’s postmodern novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold reproduces the concealed prejudice and socioeconomic struggles of unrepresented citizens as the unreliable, anonymous narrator creates distraction through a strong interest in the murder of wealthy and young Santiago Nasar. In the mid-twentieth century, Colombian residing in mainly rural areas saw a firsthand account of political corruption break out terrifyingly. La Violencia, a civil war between the conservative and liberal

Santiago understands well his inherited affluence and privileges as a rich man and as a rich, Arab man. His status as an outsider revokes fear! Culturally, women had higher standards to maintain than did men. The sacredness of virginity, considered a taboo, encouraged women to remain abstinent until their wedding nights. Divina Flor, daughter of Santiago’s chef, suffers through repetitive rape from Santiago, a man much older and powerful: “‘He grabbed my whole pussy,’ Divina Flor told me. ‘It was what he always did when he caught me alone in some corner of the house, but that day I didn’t feel the usual surprise but an awful urge to cry’” (13). With a name such as Divina Flor, (“Divine Flower") evidently, this young woman fears the label of a whore or as impure. Divina Flor allows her community’s most powerful and God-like icon to harass her sexually in exchange for his respect and her own image. The young lady knows snitching on Santiago would be a cruel and dangerous process which would likely harm her emotionally with a reputation of a