In the novel, A Chronicle of a Death Foretold, the author Gabriel Garcia Marquez satirizes the events leading to Santiago Nasar’s death, elaborating that fate is out of mortal hands. This happens mostly for the fact that the victim, Santiago Nasar, goes through a slew of events leading up to his inevitable death, such as the primary reason why he got murdered, the false accusation of a woman named Angela Vicario stating that Santiago stole her purity. Some of these events include having a very eerie dream the day before he is murdered, which is described as“...going through a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle was falling.” (3). This moment in particular, especially in the beginning of the book, is almost like an omen warning Santiago
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Even the Nasar family’s maid states that Santiago “already looked like a ghost” (15) when he came to the kitchen for coffee on the morning of his death. What Santiago also said in chapter one is “That’s what my wedding’s going to be like. Life will be too short for people to tell about it” (18). By saying this, it already implies that life is too short for Santiago, himself, to even have a wedding, let alone another day to live.
The name of the novel ties in to an important sentence in chapter 3, “There had never been a death more foretold” (50). There has never been a more predicted death than Santiago Nasar’s due to the fact the Vicario twins tell everyone in the village about killing Santiago, but nobody pays any mind, simply shrug it off as a joke, or just missing all the signs and notes that the twins were going to go through with the plan. By doing this, Marquez elaborates on the idea that we are not control of our fate, even if it’s apparent that the events won’t happen to
Even the Nasar family’s maid states that Santiago “already looked like a ghost” (15) when he came to the kitchen for coffee on the morning of his death. What Santiago also said in chapter one is “That’s what my wedding’s going to be like. Life will be too short for people to tell about it” (18). By saying this, it already implies that life is too short for Santiago, himself, to even have a wedding, let alone another day to live.
The name of the novel ties in to an important sentence in chapter 3, “There had never been a death more foretold” (50). There has never been a more predicted death than Santiago Nasar’s due to the fact the Vicario twins tell everyone in the village about killing Santiago, but nobody pays any mind, simply shrug it off as a joke, or just missing all the signs and notes that the twins were going to go through with the plan. By doing this, Marquez elaborates on the idea that we are not control of our fate, even if it’s apparent that the events won’t happen to