The honor system is satired in Chronicle of a Death Foretold because of the fact that the Vicario brothers immediately believed Angela Vicario's outrageous accusation of Santiago Nasar and killed their best friend Santiago with no proof of his guilt. At every single chance they get, they tell people what they intend to do in hopes that someone will either talk them out of it or take action against them (call the sheriff). But no one does! You see, Santiago was a close friend of theirs, yet because of a family duty, they had to kill him, or at least try. All they would have needed was for someone to put their foot down, and they could have went home feeling that they had fulfilled their duty. If only

The legal system is also satirized in Chronicle of a Death Foretold because the brothers were set free, even though the judge hadn't found "a single clue, not even the most improbable, that Santiago Nasar had been the cause of the wrong" (116-117). The two brothers are found innocent at their trial showing that the people of their town will approve of even murder if it is in the name of honor. In Montiel's Widow the legal system is made a mockery of because Montiel made his money by "monopolizing local business through terror" (118). Once he died his wife was robbed daily to the point that they would just say " Again the bandits"(119).

Religion is made fun of in the portrayal of all religious figures in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, as well as the fact that Santiago himself is portrayed by Marquez as a Christ figure. Garcia Marquez's portrays Santiago Nasar as a Christ figure, an innocent man who is sacrificed for the sins of others. The choice of Nasar as a kind of Christ is ironic, since Nasar himself is far from pure, spending time at the whorehouse and molesting young servant girls. As Divina Flor told the narrator " He grabbed my whole pussy". However, Nasar is no more corrupt than the other members of his village, who do not stop his murder even though they all are aware that it is about to take place because of their respect for the honor system. In addition everyone gets ready for the annual visit to the town by the bishop. Yet when the bishop's ship arrives, he doesn't even get off it, but rather he offers his blessings a couple hundred yards off shore and then keeps going! All the preparations of the townspeople for nothing. What's even more humorous is the fact that the bishop did the same

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