Sunday, January 9, 2011

Colombians are just tricky

Gabriel Garcia Marquez manages to arrange the title Chronicle of a Death Foretold to interest the reader. I believe Marquez does this to argue the way the future works. The future only appears if a series of events occurs in a certain amount of time, which is known as a Chronicle. Foretelling is already predicting the future, so the title Chronicle of a Death Foretold defies the principles of how the words chronicle and foretold work. Marquez, due to his knowledge of the importance of a title of a novel, keeps interest in the reader until the end of the novel. Marquez's title is not wrong; he's just doing his job. That is why I think Marquez chose these particular words in the title.

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