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Introduction

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold is one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s shorter novels, but past and current critics agree that […]

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Best known as the author of the prizewinning One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez began life in Aracataca, Colombia, on March 6, 1928. […]

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Plot Summary

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold relates the events leading up to and, to a lesser degree, those that follow the murder of Santiago Nasar, a […]

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Characters

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A Colonel Aponte See Lazaro Aponte B Lazaro Aponte The head of the police, Lazaro Aponte (also known as Colonel Aponte) first hears of the […]

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Themes

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A Honor The motive for the murder of Santiago Nasar lies undetected until halfway through Chronicle of a Death Foretold. While everyone knows that Nasar […]

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Construction

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A Point of View One of the most outstanding features of Chronicle of a Death Foretold is the point of view Garcia Marquez uses to […]

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Historical Perspective

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A The Birth of Latin American Culture The term “Latin America” refers to the area that includes all of the Caribbean islands and the mainland […]

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Questions

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Pedro Vicario suffers from a medical condition he acquired while in the military. What is the condition? Research its causes, symptoms, and treatments. Assume the […]

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Further Reading

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Translated from Spanish to English in 1970, One Hundred Years of Solitude stands as Garcia Marquez’s best-known novel. It combines historical and fictional elements to […]