Similar to Billy’s ability to release a sense of guilt by believing in fate, the townspeople in a Chronicle of a Death Foretold overlook their lack of intervention to save Santiago by suggesting that they could not have done anything to help him, since his death was completely foretold. The narrator’s statement that “there had never been a death more foretold” further depicts that the community including the narrator perceived Santiago’s death was fate and it was something that was out of the whole community’s hands. However, the whole community knew beforehand that Santiago was being targeted by the Vicario brothers the majority of people did nothing to help to the killing. Because the Vicario brother did tell everyone their plans to kill
