Answer:
These questions are based on the book written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a death fore-told
Explanation:
Chronicle of a death fore-told was a story written by the colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, it was published in 1981 and it tells the story of a young man called Santiago Nasar and his death.
1. How much time has passed between the crime and the narrator’s research?
answer: 27 years had passed
2. What time did Santiago Nasar wake up?
answer: Santiago woke up at 5:30
3. What did SN dream about? How did his mother interpret this dream?
answer: He dreamt about trees, he dreamt he went flying over some almond trees. Although his mother was known as a good dream interpreter she could not recognize or predict his death.
4. Why does the narrator discuss the weapons in the Nasar home on pg. 5?
answer: To show that it looked like he would use them yet never kept it loaded.
5. What reasons does Victoria Guzman have for hating SN? What motif does this play-into?
answer: She hated Santiago
6. On pg. 12, what is ritualistic about the "Fatal Door"?
answer: There were a lot of fatal coincidences that day, one of them was known as the Fatal Door, that door was closed that day, it was a premeditated murder.
7. What did SN and Divina Flor fail to see at the door? Why is this significant?
answer: She did not a letter, This letter warned Santiago he was going to be killed
8. What information does the first paragraph of the novel give you about the story that is going to unfold?
answer: it is a novel that describes the day a young man was murdered and how it was foretold.
9. Why doesn’t Victoria Guzman warn Santiago Nasar about the men who are going to kill him?
answer: Her daughter confessed that her mother Victoria wanted them to kill Santiago, in the depths of her herat she wanted this.
10. What signs does Santiago Nasar overlook that would have forewarned him of the impending crime?
answer: There were some things he could have seen to avoid his death such as the poster on the door and some other warnings
11. What impression does the writer give you of the bishop and of the townspeople’s relation to him?
answer: The townspeople revered the bishop.
12. How does the writer communicate the animosity of the power towards the rich in the novel?
answer: It is demonstrated by the power Bayardo San Roman had and how he got a wife because he was a rich man
13. Describe the character of Santiago Nasar.
answer: He was a 21 year old man. He was slim and pale, he had curly hair. He was a happy, peaceful man with a big heart. He was a big dreamer
