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Chronicle Of A Death Foretold By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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By making the setting of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, published in 1981 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as a small, quant town, Marquez allows the normality of city life to be slightly bended. Even given the year of the occurrence of the murder, most places would have a stricter surveillance on people planning to murder others and possessions of items lethal weapons. However, due to their everyday activities, the townspeople often and blatantly engage in violence without thinking twice about it. This is shown by the treatment of animals both rabid and domestic, and the entirety of Santiago’s murder. The civilians treat all creatures like pieces of meat with no respect for them which leads to brutality, and killing them in twisted ways. Pablo
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A different path is simply taken towards fate. Both fate and free will play an important role in determining the death of Santiago Nasar, the main character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, written by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez. “Free will” implies people are able to choose the majority of their actions. While one would expect to choose the right course of action, bad decisions are often made. This reflects the idea that humans do not have free will because if people were genuinely and consistently capable of benevolence, they would freely decide to make the ‘right’ decisions.

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The novel uses many literary techniques such as foreshadowing and irony to build a strong connection between every scene and builds closer and closer to the development of the murder. There are many foreshadowing events which develop in the story before the death of Santiago. The murder is avoidable, but nobody stops it from happening. The dream, the weather, and nature all foreshadow Santiago 's death. The instance of foreshadowing at the beginning of the story is Santiago’s dream.

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