The Chronicles Of A Death Foretold Analysis

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In every culture, women are treated differently, sometimes it could be in a good way or bad way. The book The Chronicles of a Death Foretold by, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, takes place in Sucre, Colombia, in Latin America where women are treated differently from men and children. They have to do tasks that are unexplainable. Here in this society women are expected to know how to cook, clean, and do chores. They must uphold traditions to attract their husbands. Their sole responsibility is to the house and their marriage eligibility depends on these abilities. Also women are expected to suffer in marriage and have kids.. “Any man will be happy with them because they have been raised to suffer” (Marquez 31). Proving that women are taught to be at certain standards, they would never be able to have a happy one The beginning of the plot is about how everyone knows that Santiago Nasar was going to be killed and no one ended up telling him. The people that were going to kill him we the brothers of Angela Vicario, Pedro and Pablo . “She only took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, …… ‘Santiago Nasar,’ she said.” (pg 47). Her admitting to Santiago deflowering her made the brother think that it …show more content…

This was spread throughout the whole community because this was big news that a girl so groomed had to be (Quote).Nobody thought that Angela would have been so not innocent in this situation. If the standards for women weren’t so high then Santiago didn’t need to die because of this. Sexuality- was not a virgin when she married, lost it to Santiago Nasar, breaks the village rules and traditions, is shamed for having premarital sex, los her honor due to her choice, was too proud to hide her “sin”. Angela was very insecure about herself because of what happened

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