Questions
Alice Walker has been criticized for portraying negative male characters in The Color Purple. Explain why you agree or disagree with this analysis. Be specific […]
Month: October 2008
Compare and Contrast
1930s: The relationship between men and women is clearly defined. Men are the breadwinners and the heads of the families. Women stay at home to […]
Introduction
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold is one of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s shorter novels, but past and current critics agree that […]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Best known as the author of the prizewinning One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez began life in Aracataca, Colombia, on March 6, 1928. […]
Plot Summary
Chronicle of a Death Foretold relates the events leading up to and, to a lesser degree, those that follow the murder of Santiago Nasar, a […]
Characters
A Colonel Aponte See Lazaro Aponte B Lazaro Aponte The head of the police, Lazaro Aponte (also known as Colonel Aponte) first hears of the […]
Themes
A Honor The motive for the murder of Santiago Nasar lies undetected until halfway through Chronicle of a Death Foretold. While everyone knows that Nasar […]
Construction
A Point of View One of the most outstanding features of Chronicle of a Death Foretold is the point of view Garcia Marquez uses to […]
Historical Perspective
A The Birth of Latin American Culture The term “Latin America” refers to the area that includes all of the Caribbean islands and the mainland […]