Gabriel Garcia Marquez Suspense

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The narrative technique that Gabriel Garcia Marquez use to describe the banana massacre was foreshadowing. Garcia Marquez creates suspense as he narrative the moment prior to the massacre. Suspense. For example, when the workers of the banana company got tired of trying of getting their claim dismissed by the lawyers representing the banana company, they went straight to the higher court and where dismissed as they never existed. The same happen to Jose Arcadio Segundo Buendia, when he came back after waking up next to dead people was told by a woman that there was not any dead, like the whole seen of the 3000-people massacre did not took place and it never existed. Another example was when Jose Arcadio Segundo had the feeling when the

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