Reflective Essay about the Death of Santiago Nasar

I’ve used the first person because Santiago Nasar was talking about his own death and I’ve tried to give every single thing from his point of view, so I didn’t use the parts that he cannot know about. As an example, Cristo Bedoya was searching for Santiago Nasar, but Santiago didn’t learn it from somebody at the novel, so I didn’t use that part of the story.

            I chose to start the history of Santiago’s death from the point that he was walking with Cristo Bedoya, because these were the times that the murder plan was heard by many people, and the times that Santiago and the people that knows about his death were in relation. Afterwards, I used the time that Santiago said goodbye to Cristo and Yamil, in purpose of showing the point that Santiago wasn’t in relation with the people on the street who were able to warn him about his planned death.

            When Flora’s invited Santiago into the house, I used the word “strange” because in the book, it says “No one, not even a doctor, had entered that house at six-forty in the morning,” so, Santiago would felt like that was a strange thing. Even the narrator explains the tone of Flora with using “she told”, I preferred to use “she yelled” because she was in a crisis of humiliation when she was waiting Santiago.

            At the end, I tried to explain Santiago’s behaviors and feelings from his view with saying “I couldn’t find the way home because I was so confused and in a way, depressed,” and I used the word “depressed” to show the effect of facing with a situation that he cannot overcome being humiliated by a person that he was trusting.

            Overall, I wanted to show the situation of his body and his nerve system while he was dying because of the loss of blood. I used “I was feeling the pain at first,… but then I couldn’t feel anything,” because in the book, it is written as “He didn’t cry out again,” and the only thing that can explain this situation is the loss of nerve with the effect of trauma.

At the end of the story, I wrote “I just remember that I was falling,” because I wanted to show Santiago as he was telling his story after his death. My purpose was using some events fits with the type of our original novel, Magical Realism and using the same figurative language with the author.

Works Cited

García, Márquez Gabriel. Chronicle of a Death Foretold. New York: Vintage International, 2003. Print.