Death Foretold by Symbols

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the author of the truly intriguing novel chronicle of a Death Foretold. The chronicle is truly remote and brilliantly conceived, and a sort of metaphysical capital punishment mystery in which the detective, Garcia Marquez himself, reconstructs even offts associated with the murder 27 days earlier of capital of Chile Nasar, a rich, handsome fellow who lived in the Caribbean townspeople where the author grew up (Michaels, P. 1). Marquez plays himself in the novel, interviewing people who remember the murder and studies documents assembled by the court.He gathers various kinds of datadreams, gossip, philosophical speculation, put up reportsand creates a chronological place down of what occurred. The data that is accumulated demonstrates that symbolism was real prominent in the story and inhering to the death of capital of Chile Nasar. Symbolism is offset set up when it is introduced to the readers that capital of Chile Nasar had stargaze the night in front his death that he was flying Hed imagine he was going by a grove of timber trees where a naughty mizzle was falling, and for an instant he was blissful in his dream, but when he awoke he felt completely spattered with hushing shit (Marquez, P. ).Beginning with the place, Nasar was passing by timber trees which be evergreens. Evergreens represent immortality, without end life or an undying spirit, wryally enough (Symbolism in storey of a Death foretold). This adds to the whole ironic theme represented in a emblematic way. What is besides typic to the highest degree this piece is that flying usually represents go to the next level spiritually. So that bespeaks his death. some other related dream that Nasar had was the one in which he was alone in a tinfoil carpenters plane and flying through with(predicate) the almond trees without bumping into anything (Marquez, P. ).These almond trees be a symbol of virginity, divine favor, and purity. Trees argon also recognized as being feminine. This could be representative of Santiago Nasar flying through a grove of virginal Angela Vicario. His airplane did non bump into anything, leaving the trees fully intact. This could also represent the naturalness of Nasar, construction that he did not touch Angela. His innocence could also be represented in a form of savior. Santiago and Jesus Christ can be at once parallels when Marquez writes Santiago put on a shirt and pants of white linen paper paper (Marquez, P5).Since white is the color of innocence and purity, this excerption of clothing promotes those attributes. Jesus wore a linen cloth before his death as well and was aware that they were going to bolt down him, much equivalent Nasar. not wholly is this symbolism, but religious also. The bishop coming to town also gives a slight symbolic feature. This is because a bishop could resemble god in the way when he blesses, hears sins and much(prenominal) (Bishop). So god coming to town c ould foreshadow something big occurring as well.As many a(prenominal) Christians and Catholics would agree its a very big deal, so it being a very big deal, one would envisage that everyone would be puzzle but the exact turn close occurs when Santiago Nasar is murdered in such a brutal way mature infront of his home. This story is filled with caustic remark. When Nasar tells his mother about the symbolic dreams it would have been ideal for her to decrypt them and tell him that they meant death. But instead it is mentioned that she did not recognize anything ominous within them.It is also quite ironic when he mentions, the sidereal twenty-four hours of his death, that it was a very beautiful day (Marquez, P. ) when most people agreed that the weather was funeral, with a cloudy, low sky and the thick-skulled smell of still waters, and that at the routine of the misfortune a thin drizzle was falling like the one Santiago Nasar had canvasn in his dream grove. Another malevol ent omen ignored. In a reliable way, it is understandable that a lot of omens and symbols are ignored because they are not facts. The treat that Marquez does is supposed to be journalistic and genuine (Chronicle of a Death Foretold) and symbols would be counter-productive because they are not very comfortably evidence, so they become anecdotes.However, if the people in town would have interpreted the symbols and warned him, he would be alive. But then again, if that would have occurred in the interesting novel, it wouldnt be called Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It would but be Death or something like that, which eliminates all the entertainment. Returning to the symbols, we also see that flowers are important. A day before the death of Santiago Nasar, he distinctively told Marquez that he did not like flowers because they incite him of a funeral.This is also ronic because usually flowers are meant to represent purity, love, happiness, etc. But in his case it was the opposite. Other prominent symbols are the knives that the Vicario brothers used to kill Nasar, because almost everyone had seen them. Not only did they see the knives but when they did the Vicario brothers even rubbed it much in by formula that they were going to kill Santiago Nasar. The townspeople were very ignorant by accept that they would not carry on with the spiteful deed. So they had great reticence by doing this. The ending adds to the both ironic and symbolic theme of the story.Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Roman reconciliate and it is foreknowledged if one looks at how many letters Angela sends Bayardo in the years that they are separated. But the twist is that he does not even open them. Chronicle of a Death Foretold puzzles the reader by demonstrating many symbols that foreshadow the death of Santiago Nasar. Dreams, clothing, flowers, weather, knives, and letters are just a few that make the story more interesting by giving it a symbolic view. If they had been ignored the s tory would not be the story that it is. Therefore, symbolism and irony play a very authoritative role in the story.