Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Literary Qualities

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Literary Qualities

The book's power lies in the unique way in which Garcia Marquez relates the plot of the murder about which everyone knows before it happens. Typically, a first-person narrator gives his own point of view but does not know what other characters are thinking: an ability usually reserved for the third-person omniscient, or all-knowing, point of view. In this novel, however, Garcia Marquez bends the rules: the narrator tells the story in the first person, yet he also relates everything everyone is thinking.

Garcia Marquez's use of this creative technique adds to the mystery of the murder.

Yet another technique employed by Garcia Marquez is the use of foreshadowing. Typically achieved through an author's implication that an event is going to occur, Garcia Marquez adds a twist to foreshadowing by telling exactly what is going to happen but not why it will happen or the specific...
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