Examples Of Foreshadowing In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

Chronicle of a death foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a story based on a real-life incident in which one of Gabriel’s friends was murdered. This story’s main character, Santiago Nasar, plays the role of the man who was murdered. His death, however, can be seen to have already been predicted at the beginning of the story. Gabriel Garcia Marquez does this by using the literary device of foreshadowing but uses it to the extent that one doesn't even know that he is trying to foreshadow something. In a similar fashion, Gabriel also uses tons of symbolism throughout this story, with most of the symbols symbolizing Santiago’s death. In addition to that, he also uses the literary device of imagery in order to help the reader picture certain things

This line foreshadows the setting of the environment that appears when Santiago gets killed, which is strange to some of the people in the story. The final line that I will be discussing that involves foreshadowing is the line “Armenta, the proprietress of the establishment, was the first to see him in the glow of dawn, and she had the impression that he was dressed in aluminium. "He already looked like a ghost," she told me.”, found in chapter 1 page 9, foreshadows the death of Santiago on the same day he was going to get killed. Santaigo being described as ghost even though he did not get killed yet foreshadows that he was going to die soon. Not only that but the Bayardo twins were already waiting for him on the becnhes, clutching their knifes that was hidden in newspaper to their bodies moments before they murder

Imagery can be seen a lot throughout Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and some of the imagery can be seen in lines where Gabriel foreshadows or symbolizes something. The line “But most agreed that the weather was funereal, with a cloudy, low sky and the thick smell of still waters, and that at the moment of the misfortune, a thin drizzle was falling like the one Santiago Nasar had seen in his dream grove.”, found in chapter 1 page 2, features certain details of a setting. These details include low sky, cloudy, thin drizzle, and the thick smell of still waters, which all make up the image of the setting that is being described when Santiago gets murdered. Before his murder, however, the line “Faustino Santos couldn't understand what had happened. "They came to sharpen their knives a second time," he told me, "and once more they shouted for people to hear that they were going to cut Santiago Nasar's guts out, so I believed they were kidding around”, which is found in the third chapter line 35, presents the viewer with an image of a knife being sharpened. This image lets the viewer know the characteristic of the knife that is going to be used to murder Santiago, in which the characteristic of it is that it is sharp. Having this knowledge about the knife that was being used against Santiago helps the reader understand how Santiago died, and