Use Of Narrative Voices In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

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In writing some authors are known to select a narrative voice for their stories. Either to sharpen a particularly character in their novel, to mislead the reader from going in a certain direction, or to mystify the reader with something that might be unique.
For instance in the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez the author of this novel uses many characters to be the narrative voices of his story. In Márquez’s novel his use of many narrative voices are used to mislead the reader from the reason of why Santiago Nasir the main character in his book will suffer a tragic death at the hands of the Vicario Brothers. The narrative voices do not sharpen anything or really clarify if Santiago really deserved to die. The narrative

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