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 cobblers last is so mingled with illusory images that everything seems mystified much want demise itself. The fact that the story is about how a death consumes the lives of the entire township as well as the victim, shows that it is concerned with death in life 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 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 fate after death this is the primary concern of each(prenominal) 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 clear up mysteries but be cause no(prenominal) of us could go on living without an exact knowledge of the place and the mission assigned to us by fate"(113).           "All right, girl, he express 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. umpteen in the town describe her as being a woman half in mourning and the narrator is amazed at how she ends up arrest 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