Death Foretold By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Marquez’s utilization of a first person narrator is used to convey the lack of reliability in the story which creates an uncertainty of the events within the novel. After Santiago’s murder, the narrator of the novel wakes up to the bells that chime, misinterpreting their meaning. His awakening post-murder shows that he was not there leading up to the bloody event, and thus cannot provide first-hand information. The narrator states that he was confused about the events and had to collect information from other people’s memories many years later. His use of other people’s knowledge many years late to create the story later accompanied with his confusion, show the undependable nature of this storytelling. After the wedding, the narrator describes