Chronicle of a Death Foretold Analysis

That sentence has everything you need to know about the setting of Chronicle of A Death Foretold. It might not seem like it has a lot of information, but if you look closer you see that it's a pret...

Don't you just love our sketchy unnamed narrator? He's supposed to be Santiago's friend, but it seems that he spends most of his time enjoying the services of the town's prostitutes:I was recoverin...

We honestly wouldn't be very surprised if this is the only mystery–magical realism–satire that you have ever read in your entire life. These are not genres that you normally see together, but s...

It probably wouldn't surprise you to hear that Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a journalist for several years before becoming a Nobel Prize winning author. While you might not see a lot of that journali...

By the end of the novel, you probably got tired of certain phrases, like this one:On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat th...

When you're dealing with a guy like Marquez, you have to be very careful about assuming certain things. You probably thought that this title was like an open book. Obviously it's talking about Sant...

He stumbled on the last step, but he got up at once. "He even took care to brush off the dirt that was stuck to his guts," my Aunt Wene told me. Then he went into his house through the back door th...

This is Gabriel Garcia Marquez on training wheels. Many of his novels are impenetrable to some readers because of the ornate language, sheer number of characters, and the way they travel through ti...

A Death ForetoldSantiago is going to be killed. We don't know why, or by whom, but we do know that his death is inevitable. As the title says, that's the main thing you need to know about this stor...

Santiago is going to die just hours after we meet him. But why? And who is going to kill him?The tragic hero is normally the one in anticipation, but this time we're the anxious ones. Santiago has...

Santiago Is the CulpritIn the same sentence that we meet Santiago, we also learn that he is going to die. After a while, you learn what kind of guy he is, what kind of town he lives in, and why he...

Ever wondered if there was any way around typing Gabriel Garcia Marquez over and over again in your school report? Use his nickname: Gabo! (Source). Marquez probably was at the top of his class in...

There is an entire compound of half naked, overworked prostitutes that the narrator constantly visits in this novel. How do you think it should be rated? Even though there's no actual sex, it's act...

Aureliano Buendía and Gerineldo Márquez, characters in 100 Years of Solitude (2.18) By referencing these characters, Marquez puts this story in the larger context of the world of Macondo and 100...