Imagery in Chronicle of a Death Foretold

1. Imagery inChronicle of a Death Foretold Bartu Kaleagasi

2. Slaughtering animals • P.2 “…until he was carved up like a pig an hour later…” • P.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.” • P.59 “…and once more they shouted for people to hear that they were going to cut Santiago Nasar’s guts out…” • P.74 “Help me,” she shouted to me. “What they want is to eat his guts.”

3. The smell • “The Vicario brothers could smell him in the jail cell where the mayor had locked them up” • “No matter how much I scrubbed with soap and rags, I couldn’t get rid of the smell” • “Persistence of the smell” • “It smelled like him”

4. The Dreams • “For an instance he was happy in his dream, but when he awoke he felt completely spattered in bird shit” • “She had a well-earned reputation as an accurate interpreter of other people's dreams” • “Santiago Nasartold her then about the dream, but she didn't pay any great attention to the trees.”

5. Magic realism • P.2 “…but she hadn't noticed any ominous augury in those two dreams of her son's, or in the other dreams of trees he'd described to her on the mornings preceding his death. Nor did Santiago Nasarrecognize the omen.” • “[ClotildeArmenta] was the first to see him in the glow of dawn, and she had the impression that he was dressed in aluminium. ‘He already looked like a ghost’, she told me.” • P.119 “The strange thing is that the knife kept out coming clean”

6. Other metaphors • P.37 “…when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart” • P.44 “for an instant we were cast adrift over an abyss of uncertainty” • P.65 “A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain” • P.114 “Fatality makes us invisible”

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