Chronicle Of Death Foretold Analysis

In ¨The Chronicle Of Death Foretold¨, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez animals play a big role in establishing the traits of the characters, they also foreshadow the death of Santiago Nasar. In the book “ The chronicle of death foretold”, Marquez uses animal imagery such as pigs, dogs, birds and rabbits to foreshadow the death of Santiago Nasar as well as many different functions that portray the themes of the novel. As animals play an important role in literature, they play omen in ¨The Chronicle Of Death Foretold¨, in that Marquez uses animal imagery such as pigs, dogs and rabbits to foreshadow the death of Santiago Nasar. Marquez starts off by telling the audience about the dream that Nazar had, as he claims ¨When he awoke he felt completely spattered with bird’s waste¨, even though he says that Nasar was happy during his dream, but when he wakes up he feels the opposite which is confusing just like Nasar’s death. This scene illustrates the conflict of the story, in that the

Besides birds, other animals such as rabbits were mentioned in the novel, when the author states ¨She had been quartering three rabbits for lunch, surrounded by painting dogs”, the reader doesn 't quite understand it, but later at the end of the novel at the autopsy scene, when the dogs surround Nasar´s body, the reader understand that the author portrays the guts of the rabbits as the guts of Santiago Nasar, as the dogs eat the guts of the rabbit when Victoria Guzman was in the kitchen, they try to eat Santiago’s guts at the autopsy. Could the reader analyze this scene as if the author is portraying Santiago as a rabbit? The answer could be yes because Rabbits are innocent just like Santiago