Innocence In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

People’s first assumption can often be wrong and lead them to have the wrong conclusions about something or someone. Many people in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez assumed Santiago was guilt of taking Angela’s virginity because of his previous history as a womanizer. In chapter 5 the reader learns there is practically no evidence to suggest Santiago had any part in talking Angela’s virginity. All of the character development of Santiago made him seem like it was very likely for him to have committed the act, people going as far as to call “a sparrow hawk… nipping the bud of any wayward virgin” (Márquez, 90). In this chapter, the judge noticed not a “single clue, not even the most improbable” (Márquez, 99). A trained professional could not find anything, which really forces the

Santiago was judged harshly because of his past, and by the time the reader may have changed their thoughts on Santiago characters “it's too late” (Timbaland, “Apologize”). The reader being late to the realization relates to the Judge coming to the realization of Santiago’s innocence after Santiago’s death. Moreover, Santiago’s innocence can be further seen after Nahir Miguel informs him “that the Vicario brothers were looking for him to kill him” (Márquez, 114). Santiago “turned pale and lost control” (Márquez, 114), he was the personification of a line from the song which was “I'm hearing what you say/But I just can't make a sound” (Timbaland, “Apologize”). The little Santiago could speak was in Spanish, showing how shocked he was by the turn of events. It was too late for anyone to save Santiago from the Vicario brothers. When the brothers caught him “they both kept on knifing him” (Márquez, 118), relating to the line “then you go and cut me down”. The Vicario brothers harshly cut Santiago down against his own front