The Silence that Led to Tragedy: "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The central action which molds "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is the "foretold" murder of young Santiago Nasar, by the hands of the Vicario brothers. The death of Santiago is revealed to us immediately, in the very first lines. His crime was the supposedly "defilement" of Angela Vicario, the sister of the Vicario brothers, which happened to be the antecedent of the murder itself. The real tragedy of this novel can be said to be the murdering of this man, Santiago Nasar, not by the actual murderers, but by his own town. …