“Crónica de una muerte anunciada”

I recently read “Crónica de una muerte anunciada” by Gabriel García Márquez, a book about the murder of a person who didn’t knew the reason of his own murdered. It is a story that describes how the ignorance and lack of values affect in the community.

Well, this story begins when they were just about to kill Santiago Nasar, a young man whose parents were Ibrahim Nasar and Plácida Linero. He was murdered by the Pedro and Pablo Vicario twins, who were looking for revenge because it was supposed that Santiago took away their sister virginity, who was turned back in the honeymoon to her family by her husband Bayardo San Román because of this fact. The wedding’s next morning the twins went to the place where they had pigs which meat they sell at the market, they took some knifes and went to sharpened them to kill Santiago. Everyone in the town knew what the twins had planned to do but no one really believed that they would have the guts to do it.

They were waiting for Santiago at a slot market that attended Clotilde Armenta, who saw the intention of the twins and tried to prevent the murdered by calling to the Coronel Aponte, who took the knifes away but did not imprison the twins. That’s why they came back with another knifes to kill Santiago who did not know why they were planning to do this terrifying act. After waiting him they stabbed Santiago several times until his death. After that Bayardo San Román and the Vicario family ran out of the town. Some years later the narrator met Ángela Vicario and learned that she and San Román lived together.

I ask myself why everyone let this happen. It was not a big city where all the people are running the whole time and they don’t care about the others because they do not know each other, it was a little town, where everyone knew what was going to happen…..it is a same that the lack of sense and communication between these characters have guided to this tragedy. I would recommend the book to anyone who likes drama and real situations books. It really makes you analyze and thing about what you are supposed to do and what you do.