Chronicle of a Death Foretold | Style

Chronicle of a Death Foretold Style

Point of View

One of the most outstanding features of Chronicle of a Death Foretold is the point of view Garcia Marquez uses to tell the story. Narrating the story from the first-person point of view is the unnamed son of Luisa Santiaga and brother of Mar-got, Luis, Jaime, and a nun. Having returned to the river village after being gone for twenty-seven years, the narrator tries to reconstruct the events of the day that ends in the murder of Santiago Nasar. 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.

Setting

Chronicle of a Death Foretold takes place in a small, Latin American...
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