Death Foretold Quotes

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In the book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the town ignored the killing of Santiago Nasar to be true because they believed that the Vicario twin, Pedro and Pablo, were just drunk and wasn’t in the the right state to killed Santiago Nasar. Since the Vicario twin were drunk on the night of their sister Angela Vicario’s wedding, the town people believed that the killing of Santiago Nasar were drunkard talk. In the book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, on page 13. the text says, “I didn’t told him because I thought it was drunkards’ talk,” she told me.” In this sentence, Victoria Guzmán, Santiago Nasar’s maid is talking. An old woman had revealed the motives and place to Victoria Guzmán about Santiago Nasar’s death place, but Victoria Guzmán thought the Vicario twins were only drunk. Victoria Guzmán were there on the night of Angela Vicario’s wedding and saw how drunk the Vicario twins was. As a person who look drunk and was drinking, Victoria Guzmán believed that they had lost control of their mind and …show more content…

In the book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, on page 31 they text says, “Their reputation as good people was so well-founder that no one paid any attention to them. “We thought it was drunkards’ baloney,” several butchers declared, just as Victoria Guzman and so many other did who saw them later.” In the text, several butchers are talking about the Vicario twins. The Vicario twins were known as good people. So, if the Vicario were good people, they would never try to killed Santiago Nasar. Also many people didn’t pay much attention to them. The Vicario twins must have been good guys that the town people wouldn’t believe that they would think about killing Santiago Nasar. Since the Vicario twins were known as good people, the town people only thought they were drunkards’ baloney and didn’t really pay attention to

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