Part one of term paper
The Chronicle of a Death Foretold was written as an investigation. The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez starts off with the death of a character and from there he starts jumping the chronological order into different time scenes. This gives him the ability to present different interpretations of the facts from his characters. With these inte ...

Part two of term paper
... it, and fate, what role does it plays in ones life. These themes are explained through the characters’ actions, but the themes are so closely related that one action can explain several themes at once. By the end of the story, each one these themes has been contradicted by his characters. When Marquez did this, he meant to go a step further and make the reader look at the hypocrisy of the town. Fate was used as an excuse for not intervening or warning Santiago Nazar of his murder. Instea ...