Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold is set in a strict Colombian society where the core values and beliefs set certain standards for all people of Colombia but especially very strict standards for the young generation of males and females. These standards allow Gabriel Garcia Marquez to use the relationship between the young siblings of Angela Vicario, Pedro Vicario and his twin brother Pablo Vicario to create key events in the story that wouldn’t be possible without the strict Colombian culture during the mid 20th century. An important cultural normality used by Marquez was the role of the boys, and the girls, “The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls were brought up to be married”(pg 31). With this quote the reader
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But what the audience doesn’t know is this quote foreshadows an upcoming major event in the story that relates heavily upon the relationship that Angela and her brothers share. Marquez starting out the book with this ‘manly’ act the Vicario twins were about to execute gives the reader this question to why “they” were going to kill “him”. The reader has yet to find out about Angela or her twin brothers, but instead Marquez foreshadows a driving event in the story right from the beginning to only follow up with quotes like “but when he woke he felt completely spattered with bird shit.” and “He had slept little and poorly…”. These immediate bad dreams and feelings held by the man about to be killed, Santiago Nasar gives the audience a strong base about what the main event will be and that something bad will happen in the future, but the question remains, why is this random man being chosen to be killed? Marquez uses this curiousness he has created to build upon the kind of relationship Angela shares with her brothers, as the story progresses and backstory is given about Santiago fulfilling some of this curiousness the reader has, Marquez adds in a very important hint to how Angela and her brothers share a relationship, “All right, girl,” he said to her, trembling with rage, “tell us who it was.”(pg 46). Immediately the reader is able to see the brothers are very angry and are looking to do anything to avenge their sister. The brothers seem to be very violent characters and already show dominance over their sister with an earlier quote in the page “Pedro Vicario, the more forceful of the brothers, picked her up by the waist and sat her on the dining room table.”(pg 46), the readers can put together that there is a sense of responsibility the brothers have as men to
But what the audience doesn’t know is this quote foreshadows an upcoming major event in the story that relates heavily upon the relationship that Angela and her brothers share. Marquez starting out the book with this ‘manly’ act the Vicario twins were about to execute gives the reader this question to why “they” were going to kill “him”. The reader has yet to find out about Angela or her twin brothers, but instead Marquez foreshadows a driving event in the story right from the beginning to only follow up with quotes like “but when he woke he felt completely spattered with bird shit.” and “He had slept little and poorly…”. These immediate bad dreams and feelings held by the man about to be killed, Santiago Nasar gives the audience a strong base about what the main event will be and that something bad will happen in the future, but the question remains, why is this random man being chosen to be killed? Marquez uses this curiousness he has created to build upon the kind of relationship Angela shares with her brothers, as the story progresses and backstory is given about Santiago fulfilling some of this curiousness the reader has, Marquez adds in a very important hint to how Angela and her brothers share a relationship, “All right, girl,” he said to her, trembling with rage, “tell us who it was.”(pg 46). Immediately the reader is able to see the brothers are very angry and are looking to do anything to avenge their sister. The brothers seem to be very violent characters and already show dominance over their sister with an earlier quote in the page “Pedro Vicario, the more forceful of the brothers, picked her up by the waist and sat her on the dining room table.”(pg 46), the readers can put together that there is a sense of responsibility the brothers have as men to