Chronicle Of A Death Foretold :: essays research papers

     It was rainy on the day of Santiago Nasars murder, and yet by the account of others, it was not. His remnant is so mingled with illusory images that everything seems confound oft like death itself. The fact that the story is roughly how a death consumes the lives of the entire town as well as the victim, shows that it is implicated with death in deportment and asks us to evaluate our own views.      not only is the story concerned with death in life on the literary level, but the people of the town feel obliged to find and offer gifts to a bishop that doesnt even like the town. It is perhaps because they precaution if they do not keep their faith, they are putting in endangerment their fate after death this is the primary concern of all religions, life after death and fear of the unknown. "For years we couldnt talk nearly anything else. . .and it was obvious that we werent doing it from an urge to clear up mysteries but beca use none of us could go on living without an exact knowledge of the fix and the mission assigned to us by fate"(113).           "All right, girl, he said to her, trembling with rage, tell us who it was. . .Santiago Nasar, she said"(53). Whether or not Santiago Nasar was the reason behind Angela Vicarios lost honor, his death shapes and defines her life afterwards. Many in the town describe her as be a woman half in mourning and the narrator is surprise at how she ends up understanding her own life despite how much she was made to die in life(101).      Chronicle of a Death Fortold makes us look at life and death and face uncertainty about our future. Because it questions death and our belief in religion, it depreciates, in a sense, our