Themes And Contradictions In The Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
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The Chronicle of a Death Foretold was written as an
investigation. The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez starts off with the
death of a character and from there he starts jumping the chronological
order into different time scenes. This gives him the ability to present
different interpretations of t ....
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.... did this, he meant to go
a step further and make the reader look at the hypocrisy of the town.
Fate was used as an excuse for not intervening or warning Santiago
Nazar of his murder. Instead they said that “it was if he was already dead”
. One person attempted to warn him by slipping a note under his door but
he never got around to seeing it. That is another reason that the people
believed fate got him there. Santiago Nazar died with dignity because when
he falls on the ground aft ....
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