Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the ineffectiveness of...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novel reconstructing events of one mans unfortunate murder by two men seeking to kill in order to restore honor to their family. Gabriel Garcia Marquez explores various aspects of society in Colombia in this work, including gender roles, machismo, honor killing, and civil and religious institutions. Through the authors portrayals of distinctive religious and civil authorities, Marquez suggests that Colombian society is obsessed with Catholicism to the extent that it dictates all aspects of peoples lives, and bashes the ineffectiveness and negligence of the Colombian government in dealing with societal issues. In the novel Chronicles of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marquez uses the civil†¦show more content†¦Marquez goes on to describe that Father Amador had pulled out the sliced up intestines by the roots, and that he gave them an angry blessing and threw them into the garbage pail (76).The word pulled creates a careless tone , suggesting Father Amadors carelessness in conducting the autopsy, and his disregard and disrespect for Santiago. Moreover, the fact that the Santiagos intestines were pulled out in the autopsy alludes to how during Santiagos murder by the Vicario brothers, all his intestines exploded out, (119). By alluding to the removal of the intestines, and creating a tragic tone similar to the one created when the Vicario brothers murdered Santiago, Marquez suggests that the autopsy was in a sense like another murder, except that in this instance, it was committed by Father Amador. By portraying Father Amadors autopsy as sort of another murder of Santiago, Marquez labels Father Amador as in a way an evil and corrupt character, and perhaps labels Catholic authorities in Colombian society as same.