Chronicle of a Death Foretold Dialectical Notebook

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Dialectical Notebook ● How much should I do? As long as it’s good and analytical - that said, I’ve given you space for FOUR quotes per part ● one quote per box - add more rows if need be - but not much, this is plenty, be frugal in choosing the BEST bits to analyze ● Analyze AS YOU READ - I would mark good quotes as you read and stop at the end of each part to type the quote and list your ideas on the spot - revise later if needed ● Use my example as a guide Sample DNB entry: TOPIC from GUIDE TEXT Copy and paste the topic in this column Choose at least one relevant, significant quotation that illustrates the chosen topic (and page number) motif of time / structure / irony On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on. (3) RESPONSE Respond to & analyze the quote: - Identify and analyze literary features / stylistic devices (and underline them when mentioned). - Ask JUICY QUESTIONS! Label the type of question after them. - Evaluate, predict, compare as needed - - - first line and we see two references to time (general day and specific time) → factual in tone past tense , this has already happened, thus the death is already “foretold” in the first sent., the title! irony - a bishop coming on the day of murder!? What might this suggest about the religious values in this community? (L2) My Awesome DNB: TOPIC from GUIDE Copy and paste the topic in this column TEXT Choose at least one relevant, significant quotation that illustrates the chosen topic RESPONSE Respond to & analyze the quote: - Identify and analyze literary features / stylistic devices (and underline them when mentioned). - Ask JUICY QUESTIONS! Label the type of question after them. - Evaluate, predict, compare as needed ● Introduces the dreams motif of trees and ● Emphasis on dreams is a break from the factual, almost journalistic tone. Hints at magical realism ● Pathetic Fallacy/ Symbolism of dreams / Motif of Dreams “But most agreed that the weather was funereal, with a cloudy, low sky and the thick smell of still waters, and at the moment of misfortune a thin drizzle was falling like the one Santiago Nasar saw in his dream grove” (3) Magical Realism “He had that green color of dreams” Pura Vicario told my mother (46) Motif of Time “Furthermore: all the many people he ran into after leaving his house at five minutes past six and until he was carved up like a pig an hour later [...]” (4) ● Pathetic fallacy → “So she would remember him forever” (6) “It was the breath of the Holy Spirit,” She often repeated. Indeed, it had been a providential happening, but of momentary value only.” (16) Time passed without anxiety because of the irresistible way in which Bayardo San Roman arranged things. (35) I had a very confused memory of the festival before I decided to rescue it piece by piece from the memory of others (43) “There’s no way out of this,” he told him. “It’s as if it has already happened” (61) Role of Women / “I was recovering from the wedding Representation of revels in the apostolic lap of Maria Catholic views / Sex vs. Alejandrina Cervantes [...]” (5) Love Machismo “He always slept the way his father had Marriage rituals When Marquez compares the lap of a woman to apostolic there is a juxtaposition of the holy, slept, with the weapon hidden in the pillowcase [...] (5) “In the country he wore a .357 Magnum on his belt, and its armored bullets, according to what he said, could cut a horse in two through the middle” (5) Representation of Catholic views / Machismo “The bullet [...] turned a life-size saint on the main altar of the church on the opposite side of the square to plaster dust.” (6) Motif of Trees “She saw the almond trees on the square, snowy light of dawn, but she didn’t have the courage to look at anything else.” (13) If a driving factor of ‘machismo’ is the Catholic church then this quote shows “In the branches of the almond trees and on some balconies the colored wedding decorations were still hanging and on might have thought they’d been just hung in honor of the bishop.” (14) Motif of Birds (hawks/falcons/rooste rs representative of males and used to highlight → ???? “Any dream about birds means good health,” she said (6) “among the cages of sleeping birds the dining room” (13) “she couldn’t avoid the butcher hawk hand again” (13) “It was such a great uproar that I couldn’t believe there were so many roosters in town, and i thought they were coming on the bishop’s boat.” (14) “Everywhere one could see the crates of well-fattened roosters they were bearing as a gift for the bishop” (16) The pursuit of love is like falconry Epigram “Actually,” she told me, “the fact is i didn’t want to be blessed by a man in who cut off only the combs for soup and threw the rest of the rooster into the garbage” (39) He was a sparrow hawk. (90) The cocks of dawn would catch us trying to give order to the chain of many chance events that had made absurdity possible, and it was obvious that we weren't doing it from an urge to clear up mysteries but because none of us could go on living without an exact knowledge of the place and the mission assigned to us by fate. (96) Santiago Nasar lost his senses the first time he saw her. I warned him: "A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain" “At the window of a house that faced the sea, embroidering by machine during the hottest hour of the day, was a woman half in mourning, with steel-rimmed glasses and yellowish gray hair, and hanging above her head was a canary that didn’t stop singing.”(88) “When I returned to this forgotten village, trying to put the broken mirror of memory back together from so many scattered shards” (6) “There in the half shadows was the baptistry smell that had startled me on the morning of the crime” (12) Characterization of Santiago “By his nature, Santiago Nasar was merry and peaceful, and openhearted” (8) “She remembered Santiago Nasar’s horror when she pulled out the insides of a rabbit by the roots and threw the steaming guts to the dogs “Don’t be a savage” He told her. “Make believe it was a human being” (10) “Just imagine: handsome, a man of his word and with a fortune of his own at the age of 21” (18) Characterization of Pedro and Pablo Vicario “They were hard-looking, but of a good sort,” (15) “They looked devastated by so many hours of bad living, but they’d done their duty and shaved.” (15) “They looked at him more with pity” (16) “They looked like children,” She told me, And that thought frightened her, because she’d always felt that only children are capable of everything. (55) Motif of Clothing (Santiago) “Santiago Nasar put on a shirt and pants of white linen, both items unstarched, just like the ones he’d put on the day before for the wedding” (5) “He explained to her that he’d got dressed in pontifical style in case he had a chance to kiss the bishop’s ring” (8) “She had the impression that he was dressed in aluminum” (15) Motif of Clothing (Pedro and Pablo Vicario) “They were still wearing their dark wedding suits, too heavy and formal for the Caribbean” (15) “Divina Flor, her daughter, who was j ust coming into bloom , served Santiago Nasar a mug of mountain coffee [...] (9) “The girl, as yet a bit untamed , seeme overwhelmed by the drive of her glands.” (9) Sex vs. Love/ Class System / “She’d made love to him in secret for several years in the stables of the ranch, and he brought her to be a dark vs. the light of santiago’s starched linen . house servant when the over.”(10) affection was “By his nature, Santiago Nasar was merry and peaceful, and openhearted” (8) “She remembered Santiago Nasar’s horror when she pulled out the insides of a rabbit by the roots and threw the steaming guts to the dogs “Don’t be a savage” He told her. “Make believe it was a human being” (10) “Just imagine: handsome, a man of his word and with a fortune of his own at the age of 21” (18) Generational conflicts resulting from “Nevertheless, Divina Flor confessed to me on a later visit, after her mother had died, that the latter hadn’t said anything to Santiago Nasar because in the depths of her heart she wanted them to kill him.” (13) “She had so much repressed rage the morning of the crime” (10) She only took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. “Santiago Nasar,” she said. (47) “Someone who was never identified had shoved an envelope under the door with a piece of paper warning Santiago Nasar that they were waiting for him to kill him, and, in addition, the note revealed the place, the motive, and other quite precise details of the plot.” (14) Characterization of Bayardo San Roman “He had a way of speaking that served to conceal rather than to reveal” (26) “It also seems that he’s swimming in gold” (27) → this is present tense why “His golden eyes had caused the shudder of a fear in her” (28) “With a hidden tension that was barely concealed by his excessive good manners” (28) “He seemed to me like a very sad man” (28) “He reminded me of the devil,” she told me, “but you yourself had told me that things like that shouldn’t be put into writing” (28) “The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married” (31) “They’re perfect,” she was frequently heard to say, “Any man will be happy with them because they’ve been raised to suffer” (31) Marriage / Traditions / Role of Women Angela Vicario never forgot the horror of the night on which her parents and her older sisters with their husbands, gathered together in the parlor, imposed on her the obligations to marry a man she had barely seen” (34) The parents’ decisive argument was that a family dignified by modest means had no right to disdain that prize of destiny. Angela Vicario only dared to hint at the inconvenience of a lack of love, but her mother demolished it with a single phrase: “Love can be learned too.” (35) The lawyer stood by the thesis of homicide in legitimate defense of honor, which was upheld by the court in good faith, and the twins declared at the end of the trial that they would have done it again a thousand times over for the same reason. It was they who gave a hint of the direction the defense would take as soon as they surrendered to their churches a few minutes after the crime. (48) There had never been a death more foretold [...] There weren’t very many customers that early, but twenty-two people declared they heard everything said, and they all coincided in the impression that the only reason the brothers had said it was so that someone would come over to hear them. (51) Her caution seemed natural, because there was no public misfortune more shameful than for a woman to be jilted in her bridal gown. On the other hand, the fact that Angela Vicario dared put on the veil and the orange blossoms without being a virgin would be interpreted afterwards as a profanation of the symbols of purity (41) “Don’t be silly,” he said to her. “Those two aren’t about to kill anybody, much less someone rich.” (55) “That’s not why,” Clotilde Armenta said. “It’s to spare those poor boys from the horrible duty that’s fallen on them.” Because she sensed it. She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them the favor of stopping them. (57) “Good Lord!” he mocked. “What will the bishop think!” (56) When the bishop’s boat bellowed, almost everybody was up to receive him and there were very few of us who didn’t know that the Vicario twins were waiting for Santiago Nasar to kill him, and, in addition, the reasons were understood down to the smallest detail. (58) “I knew what they were up to,” she told me, “and I didn’t only agree, I never would have married him if he hadn’t done what a man should do” (62) She served him rotgut hope of getting them dead drunk. "That day," she told me, "I realised how alone we women are in the world!" Pedro Vicario asked to borrow her husband's shaving implements, and she brought him the brush, soap, hanging mirror and the safety razor with a new blade, but he shaved with his butcher knife. Clotilde Armenta thought that was the height of machismo. "He looked like a killer in the movies." (63) It was she who did away with my generation's virginity. She taught us much more than we should have learned, but she taught us above all that there's no place in life sadder than an empty bed. Santiago Nasar lost his senses the first time he saw her. I warned him: "A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain" Ever since then they were still linked by a serious affection, but without the disorder of love, and she had so much respect for him that she never again went to bed with anyone if he was present. (65) He would rifle the wardrobe of some to disguise the others, so that they all ended up feeling different from themselves and like the ones they weren't. On a certain occasion, one of them found hereof repeated in another with such exactness that she had an attack of tears. "I felt like i'd stepped out of the mirror," she said. (65) He had a deep stab in the right hand. The report says: "It looked like a stigma of the crucified Christ." (75) "Only a priest could be so dumb," He told me. (76) The priest had pulled out the sliced-up intestines by the roots, but in the end he didn't know what to do with them, and he gave them an angry blessing and threw them into the garbage pail. (76) I dreamed that a woman was coming into the room with a little girl in her arms, and that the child was chewing without stopping to take a breath, and that the half-chewed kernels of corn were falling into the woman's brassiere. […] Suddenly i felt the anxious fingers that were undoing the buttons of my shirt, and I caught the dangerous smell of the beast of love lying by my back, and I felt myself sinking into the delights of the quicksand of her tenderness (78) "I was awake for eleven months," he told me, and I knew him well enough to know that it was true For the immense majority of people there was only one victim: Bayardo San Roman. They took it for granted that the other actors in the tragedy had been fulfilling with dignity and even with a certain grandeur, their part of the destiny that life had assigned them. (85) She would recount it in all its details to anyone who wanted to hear it, except for one item that would never be cleared up: who was the real cause of her damage, and how and why, because no one believed it had really been Santiago Nasar (89) No one would even have suspected until she decided to tell me that Bayardo San Roman had been in her life forever from the moment he'd brought her back home. (91) In that smile, for the first time since her birth, Angela Vicario saw her as she was: a poor woman devoted to the cult of her defects. (92) Mistress of her fate for the first time, Angela Vicario then discovered that hate and love are reciprocal passions. The more letters she sent the more the coals of her fever burned, but the happy rancour she felt for her mother also heated up. (93) She became lucid, overbearing, mistress of her own free will, and she became a virgin again just for him, and she recognised that no other authority than her own nor any other service than that of her obsession (93) He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two hundred thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles tied with coloured ribbons, and they were all unopened.(95) Most of those who could have done something to prevent the crime and did not consoled themselves with the pretext that affairs of honour are sacred monopolies, giving access only to those who are part of the drama. "Honor is love" I heard my mother say. (97) He was so perplexed by the enigma that fate had touched him with, that he kept falling into lyrical distraction that ran contrary to the rigour of his profession. Most of all, he never thought it legitimate that life should make use of so many coincidences forbidden literature, so that there should be the untrammelled fulfilment of a death so clearly foretold. (99) Nevertheless, what had alarmed him most at the conclusion of his excessive diligence was not having found a single clue, not even the most improbable, that Santiago Nasar had been the cause of the wrong. (99) Give me a prejudice and i will move the world. (100) [everyone] is subject to their wordily prejudices (101) Clotilde Armenta then appeared behind Pablo Vicario and shouted to Cristo Bedoya to hurry up, because in that faggot town only a man like him could prevent the tragedy. (109) He was kneeling in the parlour picking up the letters and putting them into the chest. "It looked like a penance," they told me. The he asked him outright if he knew that the Vicario brothers were looking for him to kill him. "He turned pale and lost control in such a way that it was impossible to think that he was pretending," he told me. He agreed that his manner reflected not so much fear as confusion. (115) The knife went through the palm of his right hand and then sank into his side up to the hilt. (117) Trying to finish it once and for all, Pedro Vicario sought his heart, but looked for it almost in the armpit, where pigs have it. (117) it was a fleeting illusion: the bishop began to make a sign of the cross in the air opposite the crowd on the pier, and he kept doing it mechanically, without malice or inspiration, until the boat was out of sight. (19) Learning Habits: DNB Organization Followed DNB instructions Obvious effort: professional looking, organized, AND ON TIME Engagement Read very closely & looked to the text when constructing responses and questions for the entire span of the novel ENTIRE DNB shows TOTAL quality work - Wrote insightful analysis, but in a concise manner (quantity doesn’t equal quality) - Wrote a variety of types of responses that responded to a good range on the DNB guide - Wrote insightful, probing questions ; excellent level 2 and 3 questions Exemplary 7 - 6 Consistently, wise & analytical Proficient 5 - 4 Usually, analytical Developing 3-2 Sometimes, needs more depth in analysis Emerging 1 Rarely, little depth in analysis angela vicario bought house servant “He was always dreaming about trees” Placida Linero, his mother, told me twenty-seven years later, recalling the details of that distressing monday.