Machismo In Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

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When I first read Chronicle of a Death Foretold, I questioned how a society that appeared to be fueled by their religion could allow such a gruesome murder to occur. After researching machismo for my interactive oral and listening to the presentations of my peers on topics such as Catholicism in Latin America, magical realism, the subjectivity of memory, and La Violencia, my first impressions of the novel had changed completely. The topics of machismo, Catholicism, and La Violencia were specifically revealing in terms of my understanding of the novel. Those presentations provided much needed insight into the Colombian culture that cultivated the views expressed through Marquez’s writing. La Violencia, the ten year period of violent civil