The concept of guilt is both an emotional and moral responsibility that requires a certain level of maturity for the human mind to completely accept. When an individual or a whole community proves incapable of undertaking this task, it leads to the uneven distribution of blame. The depiction of this problem largely exists in many works of literature, but undeniably the most prominent example is illustrated in the crime fiction novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. In this brilliantly complex story written by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the controversy of who or what to blame surrounds the murder of a man by the name of Santiago Nasar. In a small village, Santiago Nasar is slaughtered and killed by the Vicario brothers after
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To begin with, a journalistic tone is quite self explanatory. It is straightforward, very formal and quite objective than an opinionated tone. A journalistic tone is meant to simply report facts of who, what and where, were involved, and how events turned out. The novel opens establishing this tone, in the very first line “On the day that they were going to kill him” Nasar woke up at five thirty in the morning (Garcia Marquez 3). From just this one line, the narrator achieved necessary and specific details; someone has been murdered and everything else is going to decipher the circumstances and effects of this event in reverse plot form. Then the third line in the opening contradicts this tone, by introducing the surrealistic tone. Santiago Nasar dreamed of himself in a drizzling light “going through a grove of timber trees” only to wake to bird poop all over him (Garcia Marquez 3). This dream is an intervention with the continuance of the journalistic tone. Later, when the story progresses, the dream becomes a significant aspect of nature of Nasar’s murder. The serene and idyllic state that Santiago is in, without question foreshadows his innocence and unawareness of his fatal demise that everyone is aware of. Furthermore, the trees as inanimate objects symbolize the people who let ‘nature’ take it’s …show more content…
Characterization is used to exhibit the role of traditional tenets in suppressing its practitioners. Thrown into the river with their hands tied behind their backs, the brother are expected to drown in the midst of tradition.Not only that, but it also lends comprehension to the town’s ignorance; the leaders lack responsibility to the people, expressing more leeway to others of lower power. The perplexing nature of Nasar’s death is reflected by the dichotomy that exists in the tone, dreamlike and surreal. Lastly, the ironic coincidences are meant to illustrate the inevitability of the case. Traditions are beautiful, until it begins to have limitless boundaries to fulfil its
To begin with, a journalistic tone is quite self explanatory. It is straightforward, very formal and quite objective than an opinionated tone. A journalistic tone is meant to simply report facts of who, what and where, were involved, and how events turned out. The novel opens establishing this tone, in the very first line “On the day that they were going to kill him” Nasar woke up at five thirty in the morning (Garcia Marquez 3). From just this one line, the narrator achieved necessary and specific details; someone has been murdered and everything else is going to decipher the circumstances and effects of this event in reverse plot form. Then the third line in the opening contradicts this tone, by introducing the surrealistic tone. Santiago Nasar dreamed of himself in a drizzling light “going through a grove of timber trees” only to wake to bird poop all over him (Garcia Marquez 3). This dream is an intervention with the continuance of the journalistic tone. Later, when the story progresses, the dream becomes a significant aspect of nature of Nasar’s murder. The serene and idyllic state that Santiago is in, without question foreshadows his innocence and unawareness of his fatal demise that everyone is aware of. Furthermore, the trees as inanimate objects symbolize the people who let ‘nature’ take it’s …show more content…
Characterization is used to exhibit the role of traditional tenets in suppressing its practitioners. Thrown into the river with their hands tied behind their backs, the brother are expected to drown in the midst of tradition.Not only that, but it also lends comprehension to the town’s ignorance; the leaders lack responsibility to the people, expressing more leeway to others of lower power. The perplexing nature of Nasar’s death is reflected by the dichotomy that exists in the tone, dreamlike and surreal. Lastly, the ironic coincidences are meant to illustrate the inevitability of the case. Traditions are beautiful, until it begins to have limitless boundaries to fulfil its