Essay On Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

How Colombian cultures impacted the story development of Chronicle of a Death Foretold
The novella Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on a true story that happened in the early 1950s in the town of Sucre, where an innocent young man of a different race was being accused of taking the virginity of a woman and was murdered due to a crime he didn’t commit. Although no one believed it was him, nor did anyone did anything effective to stop the crime from happening. The story is focused on how their cultural beliefs had impacted on the actual crime. Cultural values play a big role in this novella, it’s the primary factor to why the crime took place. In the novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Marquez’s use of character development succeeds in introducing the direct impact of
Machismo is defined as strong or aggressive masculine pride, where men are allowed to have different partners, women, on the other hand, are only allowed to have one partner and it cannot be outside of the marriage; it’s also a way for men to express their dominance over the women. For example, it was said that “No one would of thought, nor did anyone say, that Angela Vicario wasn’t a virgin… ‘The only thing I [Angela Vicario] prayed to God for was to give me the courage to kill myself’’’, this clearly tells the reader that Angela had failed to fulfill people’s expectation, because “no one” would've thought that she “wasn’t a virgin” and now she is living in fear, similar to living beside a bomb, because you have no idea when the bomb is going to explode (Marquez 37). She tried to pray for “courage” in order to kill herself because she knew when her family finds out the truth, either she or the man who took her virginity will end up dead. On the other hand, it was said that “...Bayardo San Roman was going to marry whomever he chose...‘love can be learned too.’”, this quote serves as an