... there is a hidden or deeper meaning. Gabriel Garcia Marquez in "Chronicle of a Death foretold," employs a journalistic and factual style of writing. The novels main "purpose" is clarifying the events surrounding Santiago Nasar's death, and thus symbols in the novel are not recurrent and predominant. When used though, ... is the symbolism exhibited by the character names, as well as the characters themselves. Santiago Nasar is a Christ figure; essentially he represents a martyr for machismo. Marquez thus cleverly chooses his name: Santiago sounds very much like Saint and Nasar suggest Naz...

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