Santiago Nasar Descriptive Language

The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, demonstrates the pivotal role of the narrator, as well as the descriptive language of imagery throughout the story. The story begins with Santiago Nagar, one of the main protagonist of the story who died, dreaming of trees and bird. As he gets peculiar dreams, Nasar pays no mind to it, and does not understand what will precede in the future, which others- beside his mother- already suspect of. Santiago Nasar is known to be slim, pale man- who turned 21 years old- with curly like his father. He was an only child “of a marriage of convenience” (Pg 7, Ch.1), who then became the god child of the narrator’s parents due to the death of his own father. And despite Nasar’s love and hobby for hunting,-
From the beginning of the book, the author describes Nasar’s dreams through imagery. “he was alone in a tinfoil airplane and flying through the almond trees without bumbling into anything”. Nasar would always go with his life without recognizing the ominous augury in those dreams, and would always be in a good mood. Moreover the author uses imagery to describe the brutal death of Santiago Nasar. Because Dr. Dionisio Igurán was not present to perform the autopsy, Father Amardor and Cristo Bedoya took place. And after treating the victim, they returned a “completely different body”. “The empty shell, stuffed with rags and quicklime and sewed up crudely with coarse twine and baling needles” (P. 77, Ch.4). Marquez portrays how little effort the priest had made when performing the autopsy. Through imagery, it is known how Santiago Nasar had been exposed to the public view, with “drawing flies and a purple blotch appeared on the upper lip…” (P.74, Ch.4). Hence, even some dogs had been aroused by the smell of death, and wanted to eat his
He is known to be the friend of Santiago Nasar, and the cousin of the Vicario family. The narrator was in the town during the time of murder of Nasar, however he had not witnessed it first-hand. Thus, he comes back 27 years later to investigate the crime and get to the bottom of the story. Although the narrator might have his own biases and his own thoughts, he does influence how the readers read the story. Because the characters in the story knew the narrator personally, they trusted him enough to discuss about the crime that occurred long ago. And hence the readers were able to know more of the character’s thoughts and feelings, as well as find more about the motive of Nasar’s murder. Through the narrator’s investigation, the readers were also able to discover how the mother of Nasar- Placida Linero- blamed herself for the death, despite not being her fault. “On the other hand , she never forgave herself for having mixed up the magnificent augury of trees with the unlucky of one bird's…”(P.98, Ch.5). Because of the narrator, we were able to learn that Placida never forgave herself, although she slowly freed herself from the blame. Furthermore, the readers also found the disclosure of Nasar’s death. It was revealed that the death of Santiago had greatly impacted the people in town, especially those who could have done something to prevent the murder from occurring, but didn’t. Hortensia Baute, who