Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an author known for the use of magic realism in his works. Also "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" includes many examples of Magic Realism. It is this tool, which Marquez uses to decorate normal scenarios, from a day-to-day life into unreal but fantastic worlds. The criticism of the novel explains that Marquez "is unable to populate it with characters who are realistic and lasting in the memory". It says that the novel lacks of real characters and that Marquez focuses more on describing the "setting and the mood" instead of going into more detail with the character's image.

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In the novel "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" Gabriel Garcia Marquez uses a unique style of story-telling, which is known as "magic realism". He creates an imaginary world that is so similar to our everyday life, and yet it is so different from it. Certainly, this novel wouldn't be the same if this magic realism was missing. The criticism is correct when stating that Marquez is able to create a "lush world" in this novel. But the fact that the author focuses more on describing a mood, smell, or event (such as Santiago Nasar's death or murder) creates the main argument of the critic that the novel's characters "completely suffer". This criticism certainly relies on a true fact: Characters appearing in this novel are either described in one or two sentences or just called by their name. Many characters appear and just as they came, they disappear again. But, does the lack of descriptions of the characters really affect the actual story? The critic obviously doesn't include the fact that this novel is written by a Caribbean author and about a Caribbean small town. In other words, having the origin of this novel in mind, the reader should know that different cultures have different aspects of telling stories. However this atmosphere created in the novel reflects the life of an original Caribbean town, showing the different aspects one can look at an event. This doesn't mean that it is 'correct' or 'normal' to not include more details about the main characters, but it shows us that for this particular novel the characters aren't the key point of the story, but more important the life and reactions of the town as a w

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