The honor system is satired in Chronicle of a Death Foretold because of the fact that the Vicario brothers immediately believed Angela Vicario's outrageous accusation of Santiago Nasar and killed their best friend Santiago with no proof of his guilt. At every single chance they get, they tell people what they intend to do in hopes that someone will either talk them out of it or take action against them (call the sheriff). But no one does! You see, Santiago was a close friend of theirs, yet because of a family duty, they had to kill him, or at least try. All they would have needed was for someone to put their foot down, and they could have went home feeling that they had fulfilled their duty. If only

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