Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

The problem with the title The Chronicle Of A Death Foretold is that the novel doesn't actually follow any chronological sequence. The reason Gabriel Garcia Marquez chose this title is because it is an account of a murder. When a traumatic incident occurs, each witness to that event sees the occurrence in different ways. This means that there is no eye witness story that is identical to the next. By naming this story a "chronicle", Marquez is telling the sequences in the order that they occurred to the witness.