Classroom Notes - Chronicles of A Death Foretold
Classroom Notes - Chronicles of A Death Foretold
Classroom Notes - Chronicles of A Death Foretold
Victims?
o Two sides to the action
The pursuit
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He felt splattered with bird shit why did he have this dream?
Showing how he was going to die because he was going to be
hunted by the falcons
One of the consequences of being a falconer
His society has shit on him allowing him to die
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Is it a prophecy?
Showing the truth from the darker side of things that S.N.
was innocent from the beginning
Irony
They dont display the Christian morals because its become
an unholy place
Types of dreams
Almond trees You will always dream about trees. But almonds
in particular are significant because almonds are valuable but also
have the potential to be poisonous
Tinfoil airplanes hes in a fragile state (tinfoil is malleable)
Flying through almond trees without bumping into anything not
gaining anything from the rich almonds
Why does even Santiago Nasars mother miss the omen of her
dream that foreshadowed her dreams?
Why twins?
Duality (two forces; you cant have good without bad) relating to
human behaviour, you wont know the contrast without
experience.
Complications with killing someone. You wont know how
hard it is until youve done it before
Ending:
- The final warnings
Cristo Bedoya didnt try to take a shot and there werent any
bullets.
S.N. had many idiosyncrasies that were cultural and traditional
these rituals derived from his fathers path may have killed him.
E.g. he only carried arms when he wore riding clothes.
Are humans gladiatorial? They all turned up in the square like
an audience to watch the murder performance.
Individual societies vs. collectivist societies. You may think youre
in a collectivist society but if you rather arrange dominoes before
stopping the murder (i.e. my needs come before yours) you are
in fact an individualist.
Or, it could have been a collectivist society; just that S.N. was an
outsider.
Why does flora Miguel not even remember who told her about
her fiances death? Significantly shows how little it affected her
Emotions override memories of people.
Fear of humiliation prevented her from warning him in case he
was forced to marry angela vicario instead.
Letters in floras lap ironic because of the letters angela will later
send bayardo
Floras father was a Bedouin.
Perhaps her family was an outsider as well
S.N.s first response to an actual warning from floras father was
confusion, not fear. Insinuates innocence.
Wet bird stalled by an action, no longer the hunter but the
hunted. Cant fly as easilt e.t.c.
Is the dream coming back to him at this point?
Significance of a door duality of the door. Safety, opportunity,
entrapment.