Chronicle+of+a+Death+Foretold

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‘//Many people coincided in recalling that it was a radiant morning with a sea breeze coming in through the banana groves’// pg 2
 * __Themes in Chronicle of a Death Foretold__**
 * 1) ** Memory : ** recalling insignificant details when recounting events from the past

Page references: 28, 73, 32 // ‘Any dream about birds means good health’ // pg 4
 * 1) ** Superstition: ** strong belief of luck and destiny

Page References: // ‘Holding me by the hair with one hand and beating me with the other with such a rage that I thought she was going to kill me’ // pg 47 // ‘I can imagine my sons, she said. Honor doesn’t wait’ // pg 63 // ‘They would have done it again a thousand times over for the same reason’ // pg 48
 * 1) ** Pride and honor: **

Page references: 29, 30, 47, 48, 49, 63

« Before God and before men, » Pablo Vicario said. “It was a matter of honour.” p. 49

“For years they continued talking in my house about the fact that my father had gone back to playing his boyhood violin in honour of the newlyweds.” p. 43

“//Only Pura Vicario knew what she did during the next two hours, and she went to her grave with her secret. “The only thing I can remember is that she was holding me by the hair with one hand and beating me with the other with such a rage that I thought she was going to kill me” Angela Vicario told me//”. . Pg.46,47, 49

// ‘The truth is I didn’t know what to do’ ‘My first thought was that it wasn’t any business of mine but something for the civil authorities’ // pg 70 // ‘There had never been a death more foretold’ // pg 50
 * 1) ** Communal responsibility for individual actions **

Page references: 70, 71, 56

“Clotilde Armenta told me that they’d lost their last hopes when the priest passed by her place.” p. 70

In general, the whole of page 70 shows communal guilt, they are all ashamed and feel guilty because of Nasar’s violent murder.

// ‘The week before he’d dreamed that he was alone in a tinfoil airplane and flying through the almond trees without bumping into anything’ // pg 1 and 2
 * 1) ** dream versus reality: **

Page references: 2, 46, 47, 50

“I realized just how alone we women are in the world!” p. 63
 * 1) ** Theme of Powerlessness of Women: **

“Prudencia Cotes stood waiting in the kitchen until she saw them leave by the courtyard door, and she kept on waiting for three years without a moment of discouragement until Pablo Vicario got out of jail and became her husband for life.” p. 63 “Those two aren’t about to kill anybody, much less someone rich.” p. 55
 * 8. Class Issues **

“Five minutes later, indeed, he returned to the social club with his silver-trimmed saddlebags, and on the table he laid ten bundles of thousand-peso notes with the printed bands of the State Bank still on them.” p. 36
 * 1) //Central Theme:// **How small societies pressurize people to act in a certain way, due to the conventions created by this community.**

//Quote:// “Clotilde Armenta suffered another disappointment with the mayor’s casual attitude, because she thought he should have arrested the twins until the truth came out. Colonel Aponte showed her the knife as the final argument. “Now, they haven’t got anything to kill anybody with” he said. “That’s not why” said Clotilde Armenta “It’s to spare those poor boys from the horrible duty that’s fallen on them” //Page References:// LOTS

//Sub-Theme:// **How men and women are forced to take such different roles in society.** //Quote:// “The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married. They knew how to do screen embroidery, sew by machine, weave bone lace, …” //Page References:// 30, 31, 37

//Sub-Theme:// **How pride and public image influences the lives of the people in this community.** //Quote:// “Angela Vicario refused to get dressed as a bride until she saw him in the house….Her caution seemed natural, because there was no public misfortune more shameful than a woman to be jilted in her bridal gown. On the other hand, the fact that Angela Vicario dared put on the veil and the orange blossoms without being a virgin would be interpreted afterwards as a profanation of the symbols of purity.” //Page References:// 40, 47, 54, 46


 * How manifestations of love in the novel are ritualistic. **
 * a. **// “That night when she returned home Angela Vicario found the music box there, gift wrapped, and tied with an organdy bow”. //
 * b. ** Pg. 27, 28, 29

a. Quotes: b. Pg.45,
 * How many individuals, and the community, don’t fulfill their responsibilities and betray one another.**
 * // “ //**// The Vicario brothers went there and they were drinking with us and singing with Santiago Nazar five hours before killing him” //
 * Memory **
 * a. //“// **// The week before, he’d dreamed that he was alone in a tinfoil airplane with fly thign through the almond trees without bumping into anything” she told me twenty seven years later. //
 * b. ** Pg 1, 2, 5