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The point I'm defending is physical geography's influence on the town. The physical geography shows the town is on the coast of Colombia. It shows that the town is small and insignificant. It shows that the town has limited resources. Talking about a warehouse, Santiago states: "It had been built in the days when the river was so usable that many seagoing barges and even a few tall ships made their way up there through the marshes of the estuary"(10-11).

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold uses the setting to explain the nature of the townspeople and the motives that drive their actions. The region of Columbia where the story is set is politically unstable. Pedro Vicario is the unfortunate victim of this instability. Having earned his Sargeant's stripes in the Army, Pedro lead "his patrol into guerella territory, never to be seen again" (83). The political instability leads to a general lack of disrespect for the rule of law. but these people are far from lawless. They follow to a tee a set of moral codes that are unspokenly agreed upon by the entire population. These moral codes are the backbone of the society in "Chronicle of a Death Foretold." Thus the Vicario brothers send two knives into Santiago Nasar's body. Their sister's honor must be defended, and death was not a line to great to cross.

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I really want to discuss the idea of honor in Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Santiago's mother even says that, "Honor is love" (97). To be honest, I don't have a clue what that means. I don't really understand the idea of honor in the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold. It even says in the novel that if Angela Vicario actually lost her virginity to Santiago Nasar, they have to marry in order for Angela to get her honor back. We don't even know if Angela losing her virginity was consentual. This book foryhe most part was easy to understand except for the concept of honor in Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

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The importance of cultural setting is shown through the displays of machismo throughout the book. Machismo is shown through the ways of men in the town. Mainly, how they treated women when it comes to marriage, social standards, and honor. This is especially shown with our introduction to Bayardo in chapter 2. An example is when our narattor tell us "When I wake up," he [Bayardo] "remind me to marry her." (29) showing how Bayardo believes he can simply marry her just by hearing her name and that she could say yes. This shows the cocky nature of machismo

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Marquez's use of synecdocte heavily influenced his book, "Chronicle of a Death Foretold." In an effort to make his story about the whole of Columbia instead of just one small town, Marquez never gives the town a name. Even though the plot of his book was based on real life events in Sucre, Marquez left out it's name in an effort to minimize distractions. His use of synecdoche in the book is visible in his portrayal of the culture, loosely regulated and only barely becoming industrialized. We see this specifically in the town's legal system, where the defense lawyer "stood by the thesis of homicide in the legitimate defense of honor" (48), and the defense was accepted. The generalizations in "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" make it open to interpretation.