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 * //Chronicle of a Death Foretold//** by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reviewed by Javier Pérez Lukes

On the day the Bishop came to the village, the Vicario brothers were waiting to kill Santiago Nasar. This would seem like the falling action, resolution, or climax of the book, but this is only the introduction to the story. The characters mentioned in the story are: Santiago Nasar, Placida Linero(Santiago’s mother), Bayardo San Roman, the Vicarios(Pedro, Pablo and Angela), and the village people. The setting is in a small and calm village, perhaps in South America. An example of rising action in the story is when Bayardo San Roman married Angela Vicario. Angela cheated on Bayardo San Roman with Santiago Nasar, and Bayardo decided to regain his honor. When Bayardo asked Angela who was involved in the deception, Angela’s thoroughly well aimed dart struck the name of Santiago Nasar. Pedro and Pablo Vicario, later that night, sharpened their knives, announced their plans to the entire village and waited for Santiago Nasar to kill him. The external conflict was the impending doom that was waiting outside Santiago Nasar’s doorstep, while the village people had a strange lack of internal conflict from knowing that Santiago was going to get killed.

The unsurpassable sentences of Gabriel Garcia Marquez are featured in every page of **//Chronicle of a Death Foretold.//** Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes all events or characters with precise detail and an enormous vocabulary. This sentence is only one of the elegant examples of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s writing: “She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused name from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses dialogue and narration. He uses voice, and is organized with fantastic transitions. When a new character is mentioned, Gabriel will describe that character with a background story. You must read this book carefully because if you skip the most minuscule of all parts, there might be a key detail or transition within it. This book is intelligent, humorous and an exhilarating experience to read. I highly recommend this book to any reader of complex and vigorously amusing books.

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