A Man Killed By a Town (Chronicles of a Death Foretold)

Garcia Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold tells of the pretold death of a man, Santiago Nasar. The death of Santiago Nasar is revealed immediately, in the opening lines of the novel. Its reasons and details are divulged gradually throughout the entirety of the plot. Nasar is killed in the story because he is considered to be the one to blame for the premarital devirginization of one Angela Vicario, and so, in defense of …

…not knowing its reason for meeting him. There can not be any dispute in that there is neither crime nor tragedy within this novel greater than the injustice that was brought upon poor Santiago Nasar. In the end, the townspeople finally come to admit their error in judgement, and the narrator agrees that it was, "A crime for which we were all to blame." The tragedy lies with Santiago. A man killed by a town.