Chronicle Of A Death Foretold :: essays research papers

     It was rainy on the twenty-four hours of capital of Chile Nasars murder, and yet by the account of others, it was not. His death is so mingled with illusory images that everything seems mystified much identical death itself. The fact that the fiction is about how a death consumes the lives of the entire town as salutary as the victim, shows that it is concerned with death in spiritedness and asks us to treasure our own views.      Not only is the story concerned with death in life on the literary level, but the people of the town savor obliged to honor and offer gifts to a bishop that doesnt even like the town. It is perhaps because they fear if they do not keep their faith, they are putting in jeopardy their mass after death this is the primary concern of all religions, life after death and fear of the unknown. "For years we couldnt talk about anything else. . .and it was obvious that we werent doing it from an urge to clea r up mysteries but because none of us could go on living without an accept knowledge of the place 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 eviscerate her as being a woman half in lament and the narrator is amazed 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 showcase uncertainty about our future. Because it questions death and our belief in religion, it depreciates, in a sense, our