Symbolism In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

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(hook--something about the ideas of the mind and its influence? ) The novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez follows the Narrator as he gets down to the bottom of Santiago Nasar’s foretold death. Sorting through many memories, the Narrator tells about Angela Vicario became a returned bride because she had already lost her virginity. She suddenly announces Santiago as the perpetrator, for taking her virginity, and her brothers, Pedro Vicario and Pablo Vicario decide to kill Santiago as well as tell their plans to the townspeople. Santiago’s death brings forward the question of responsibility--the state of having an obligation, duty, or burden. (define and talk more psychological-- Of, relating to, or arising from the mind or emotions. (3.) Influencing or intended to influence the mind or emotions: psychological warfare and initiative--The power or ability to begin or to follow through energetically with a plan or task; enterprise and determination.)
Márquez uses the Narrator’s memory to show the responsibility of …show more content…

(need? Yamil Shaium is one of the Arabs that traveled with Ibrahim Nasar.) Yamil hears the rumor and goes to warn Santiago for, “[n]o one had as much authority as he to talk to Santiago Nasar. Nevertheless, he thought that if the rumor was baseless it would alarm him unnecessarily…” (103). Similarly to Father Amador and Victoria Guzmán, Yamil Shaium is caught in a psychological thought that there is a possibility of the rumor being faulty (“baseless”). Yamil’s idea led to the message being delivered to another townsperson, Cristo Bedoya, rather than to the person’s whose death is already foretold. The idea that “[n]o one ha[s] as much authority…to talk to Santiago Nasar” suggests the townspeople believe one should stay in their class rank rather than deciding to move out of their “comfort” zone when it comes down to a life (reword

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