The fable. The tale concerns a shepherd boy who repeatedly tricks nearby villagers into thinking a wolf is attacking his town's flock. When a wolf actually does appear and the boy again calls for help, the villagers believe that it is another false alarm and the sheep are eaten by the wolf.
There's no way of getting around death as a theme of Love in the Time of Cholera. The title itself refers to a highly infectious disease that was often fatal to those who contracted it.
