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Israel Perez

English 112

November 9, 2005

Professor Palade

Machismo in the novel

Chronicle of the Death Foretold

The novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is one of his best known pieces of work. The storyline of Chronicle of a Death Foretold revolves around the death of a man marked as a young bride's perpetrator. In the novel the murder is recounted in a journalistic style. The narrator investigates the murder 27 years after the fact. The story is about Bayardo San Roman, a rich, mysterious stranger to the town who arranges a marriage with Angela Vicario. On their wedding night Bayardo returns his new wife to her family because she was not a virgin. Her parents beat a name of the offender out of her and she names Santiago Nasar, a rich, handsome man about town. Her two brothers then kill him early then morning after the wedding.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold consists of many different themes that can be recognized by the......

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