“He’d dreamed he was going through a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle was falling, and for an instant he was happy in his dream, but when awoke he felt completely spattered with bird shit” (3). “A gentle drizzle” is referring to the weather on the day of Santiago’s murder, “the weather was funereal, with a cloudy, low sky and the thick smell of still waters, and that at the moment of misfortune a thin drizzle was falling like the one Santiago Nasar had seen in his dream grove” (4). In these two quotes, we can really tell the difference in between dreams and reality. In your dreams, you are free to think what you want and to do things you would normally not do in society. It shows Santiago living a happy life when suddenly he gets murdered. The fact that he would get murdered, never crossed his mother’s mind “Any dream about birds means good
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In other words, he was avoiding death and trouble “without bumping into anything”. It was as if he knew he would get murdered and his dreams were telling him something.
The smell of Santiago represents the guilt felt by the entire town for allowing the Vicario twins to murder him. “ What I’ll never forget was the terrible smell of shit” (120). When they threw his guts out, it was like throwing his “secrets” away. While trying to kill his spirit, it never died , “it was as if we killed him all over again after he was dead” (72).
Throughout this novel, we started to wonder what these dreams meant and what were their significance. Throughout this novel, we started to realize how it was foretelling his murder. While the whole town and even us, the reader, knew that he would get killed, Santiago and his mother were blinded by all the clues in his dreams and the
In other words, he was avoiding death and trouble “without bumping into anything”. It was as if he knew he would get murdered and his dreams were telling him something.
The smell of Santiago represents the guilt felt by the entire town for allowing the Vicario twins to murder him. “ What I’ll never forget was the terrible smell of shit” (120). When they threw his guts out, it was like throwing his “secrets” away. While trying to kill his spirit, it never died , “it was as if we killed him all over again after he was dead” (72).
Throughout this novel, we started to wonder what these dreams meant and what were their significance. Throughout this novel, we started to realize how it was foretelling his murder. While the whole town and even us, the reader, knew that he would get killed, Santiago and his mother were blinded by all the clues in his dreams and the