Chronicle Of A Death Foretold Essay

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a colombian novelist, found his way to fame through his outstanding “folkloric fiction” writings. At a young age, Marquez’s grandmother taught him colonial traditions by telling him stories. Marquez, inspired by the writing of legendary North American novelists William Faulker and Ernest Hemingway, he began to write fiction and novels filled with a variation of different settings and concepts. After writing many short novels ranging from comedies to evil, and violent deaths, he won the Nobel Prize in 1982. Marquez now possesses international and world-renowned fame when it refers to novelists. Marquez most notably made his name while writing allegories, and his use of various different styles. His most note-worthy

In this particular novel in fact, the narrator them-self kills Santiago by foretelling readers in the first sentence of the novel. Also, Santiago’s dreams foreshadow his death with, his own dreams, the dreams of his mother, and the disembowelment of two rabbits, missing multiple signs of his own death. The daughter of the cook, Divina Flor, does not notify Santiago that she has heard a rumor that two men will attempt to kill him, because she wishes him dead, another sign of death before his own actual death. Santiago Nasar’s mother recalls her last sigh of her son as “face down in dust, trying to rise up out of his own blood.” William Gass says it perfectly, “One man is dead, and hundreds have murdered him.” showing that it may have just been two killers, but the whole towns incapability to act on their knowledge. The towns inability to react on previously gained knowledge of the murder lingers forever leaving a sense guilt drowning the town in guilt and sadness. All of Santiago Nasar’s murders live their lives differently going forward, each trying to piece together what could be left, after being thrown into