Honor is the vicarios brothers insentive to kill santiago. In the book it is so important to familities that it is an acceptable excuse for murder in that society. Everyone exepcts the vacario brothers to kill santiago and even one of their wife said that she wanted her husband to kill santiago knowing that results in several years of jailtime where they cant see each other. Chapter 3 empasizes the importance of honor in the socity in the book and how it can be a motive for people to do things unheard of in modern society.

A piece of media that I found related to this chapter is the TV show "Dexter"

This is because of how Dexter kills people he believes are deserving and who have gotten away with crimes in the show. This is similar to how the Vicario brothers killed Santiago Nassar for his immoralities.

The media I found was the scene from The Lion King where Simba Fights Scar. In this scene Simba is fighting to restore his familys honour, getting revenge for his fathers death, and regain his place as king.

In Chapter 3, Honour is portrayed as a constant pressure, a guideline that forces people to act and react in a very specific way. A great representation of honour is seen in the Vicario Brothers. From the way they act, they look and talk. They are being pressured to be "tough" and instilling fear by their appearance and actions.

This is later more apparent when they have to kill Santiago Nazar, solely on the name of honour. It can be inferred that they do not actually want to kill him, but the moment that honour and family are involved, they are forced to act and react, again, based on honour. As Pablo Vicario’s wife said, “I know 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.” This statement reinforces how deeply ingrained honour is in their society, not only do the Vicario brothers feel forced to commit the murder, but their actions are also expected and even validated by those around them.

MEDIA : For my media I chose to show a war. I wanted to show how sometimes honour forces you to do things that may be very uncomfortable or not wanting to do, specially when it has to do with other people doing it as well.

In chapter 3 of The Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marques portrays Honour as a crucial societal expectation shaping decisions, evident through the Vicario Brothers. The Vicario brothers believe that they have no choice but to kill Santiago Nasar to restore their family's honour. Pedro Vicario's fiance pressured him into killing Santiago as she states, "I never would have married him" (62), emphasizing that a man who does not defend his family's honour is deemed as valueless. Later the Vicario twins "declared at the end of the trial that they would have done it again a thousand times over for the same reason" (online 29), knowing the significance of restoring family honour even though he was drinking with "Santiago Nasar five hours before killing him" (online 27).

A piece of media I found related to this chapter is Gladiator 2. It is similar to how Lucius had to become a gladiator, trying to take back Rome and restore his father's honour.

In Chapter 3 of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, honor is shown as a strict societal norm that shapes every decision, even when those decisons may lead to tragedy. The murder of Santiago Nasar (killed by the Vicario brothers) wasn't driven by personal hate but by the overwhelming need to restore family honor after he took Angela Vicario's virginity. In this town, people care more about tradition than their feelings, leaving little room for personal choice. I noticed this when the narrator recalled her mother's words: "Honour is love,' I heard my mother say" (Marquez 57). This quote further shows the passion that the townspeople have for maintaining honor. In their eyes, Honor is extremely important and something worth fighting for as it is connected to love. Making it impossible for anyone to honor something they don't care about deeply.

The video I chose connects to what I wrote because it explains how honor codes have shaped societies, often influencing people to commit violence to uphold their reputations (just like the Vicario brothers in the Chronicle of a Death foretold)

In chapter 3 of Chronicle of a Death Foretold, honour is portrayed by the burden that is placed upon the Vicario brothers to defend their families name and honour. The reason they have to do this is due to their sister, Angela, and her inability to follow the machismo and marianismo values of the time. Angela had a pre-merrital affair, which is extremely frowned upon in 1950s Colombian culture; so much to the point that she was unable to get married due to there not being a "stain of honour" (Marquez 38)once Angela and her new husband were married. Maintaining the family's honour means keeping a good reputation for the family's name, even if they didn't want to do it. This however, is normalized in society to the point that homocide has been named a "legitimate defence" in law (Marquez 48). Had the brothers let Satiago continue to live unharmed and untouched after what he did it would be a bad look and label for the family name.

I related this to a tik tok trend that has circulated, and is a video of a kid with his little brother before a football game. The older brother pulls his younger brother in by the facemask before the game kicks off and tells him to "show em what it means to be a Ferguson".

The two relate because of the elder forcing the younger person in the family to defend the family name and honour his older brother by playing a good game.

How is honour portrayed in Chapter 3?

Honour appears to be of strong significance in chapter 3, so much so that the Vicario brothers become innocent before god, men and even the law for taking a human life and killing Santiago Nasar. This is seen when the brothers state, "But we're innocent [...] before god and before men." The law of the town that was upheld in good faith also states that "by the thesis of homicide in legitimate defence of honour." These quotes from the beginning of chapter 3 portray the importance of honour in the town and the price that men are expected to pay to maintain it.

At the beginning of the book, we witness lots of scenes about how women must behave in order to bring themselves and their families honour. However, in Chapter 3, we begin to witness some of this pressure on men as well. The Victoria brothers were announcing their plan to kill Santiago to the whole town; they went aroudn saying "We're going to kill Santiago Nasar," in the hope that someone, anyone, would make a move to stop them from taking a human life, from killing Santiago Nasar, their friend. Even though the Vicario brothers went beyond what they needed to do for someone to stop them, they failed. Killign Santiago Nasar was a very heavy weight that had fallen onto the Vicario brothers since their father was blind and unable to carry. This is seen when Clotilde Armenta states, "It's to spare those poor boys from the horrible duty that has fallen on them." Clotilde Armenta understands this burden that has fallen onto the Vicario brothers, Proudencia Cotes, the mother-in-law of one of the twins, adds to the pressure the twins are feeling by stating, " I can imagine my sons, honour doesn't wait." Pablo's mother-in-law and fiance pressured them to carry out their decision to kill Santiago Nasar.

This is related to the song "Bring Honour to Us" from Mulan, where the only way women can bring themselves and their families honour is to make a good match and have children, so they feel the same pressure as the Vicario brothers to do what they do not want to in order to preserve their honour.

In chapter 3, honour is portrayed as the highest moral value, where the judicial system upholds it as a "legitimate defence" (48). Honour is shown as a moral value that is inescapable and will lead people to undermine all other moral values. The Vicario brother's go to the extreme lengths of vengeance, killing Santiago Nasar, to restore their family's honour and uphold societal standards. Despite their determination to kill him, the Vicario brothers did not want to go through with it. This is seen in how they tell the whole town about what they are going to do, rather than killing him "immediately and without any public spectacle" (49). They did this because they hoped somebody would intervene, however "they had failed" (49). Instead of showing the thirst for the blood of someone about to commit murder, the Vicario brothers do "much more than could be imagined to have someone to stop them from killing him" (49). The Vicario brother's motivations for killing Santiago Nasar are much more complex than just wanting vengeance. Their actions are driven by the need to uphold societies standard of honour. This is seen when Clotilde Armenta says that there is a "horrible duty that's fallen on them" (57), implying that they have no choice but to kill Santiago Nasar.

A piece of media that I found is Romeo and Juliet. The houses Capulet and and Montague are driven by duty to honour, which binds Romeo and Juliet to their families.

An example from media is Gladiator. A quote from the movie that relates to CDF and "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."