Death Foretold

To understand the role of religion in "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, first we have to understand the setting of plot, the era where the story has been set, the society and community it deals with. The work is set in an unnamed, remote part of Colombia. The novel is considered by many to be loosely based on the killing of Kitty Genovese in New York City in 1964.

For the novella that continues to win well-deserved accolades for its multi-faceted qualities since it was first published in 1981, the plot is disarmingly and deceptively simple: narrated in journalistic investigative mode, it pieces together and recounts how the Vicario brothers set about and finally avenge the honor of their sister, Angela, who gets married to the wealthy and suave Bayardo San Roman in a lavish ceremony but is spurned on the wedding night itself and returned in disgrace to her parents because the groom discovers that she has already been "deflowered". Pushed against the wall, Angela accuses Santiago Nasar , another wealthy inhabitant of Arab descent , of
It almost seems that the writer has deliberately not made the narrator privy to the truth so that death 's mystery, the eternal unsolved mystery for man though the ages, continues to remain so. The varying accounts of that fateful day; whether it was raining on that day or it happened to be a particularly sun-lit, are things that are left inconclusive. But the superstitious and ominous connotations are there for all to perceive; rains portend an impending disaster, something unsavory, in this instance the death of Santiago Nasar. In a place reeking as much of superstitions as the said Colombian town, it really does not come as a surprise that over the years the death that rocked that town took on fantastic and incredible proportions and fanciful connotations as it spread from ear to