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Clotilde Armenta feels alone in her efforts to prevent the murder of Santiago Nasar, which no one else seems to believe will actually happen. Despite warning many people, including the police, her warnings have not achieved the desired impact. She feels the burden of this responsibility as a woman, whose warnings are not given the same validity as a man's would. Santiago Nasar and Maria Alejandra Cervante still have an affection for each other after their passionate love affair was destroyed by Santiago's father. While their separation removed the disorder of passionate love, they maintained a deep connection in a less emotionally attached way.

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Literary Analysis for Students

Clotilde Armenta feels alone in her efforts to prevent the murder of Santiago Nasar, which no one else seems to believe will actually happen. Despite warning many people, including the police, her warnings have not achieved the desired impact. She feels the burden of this responsibility as a woman, whose warnings are not given the same validity as a man's would. Santiago Nasar and Maria Alejandra Cervante still have an affection for each other after their passionate love affair was destroyed by Santiago's father. While their separation removed the disorder of passionate love, they maintained a deep connection in a less emotionally attached way.

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Chapter 3 Close Reading

Instructions:
Your responses should be comprehensive and exploratory, addressing ambiguities, symbolic
meaning, specific language, or resonances with other passages from the text. Also, think about
how each quote makes you feel or think about the speaker, or affects how you feel or think about
the drama itself.

Passage #1:
“‘That day,’ she told me, ‘I realized just how alone we women are in the world!’”(blue book:63,
green book:72)

Clotilde Armenta feels like her efforts to prevent the Vicario twins from murdering Santiago
Nasar are making little difference and are going unnoticed. At this point, she has notified the
police, sent warnings to others, and told almost everyone coming into her shop about the
Vicario’s plan and the grave danger Santiago Nasar is in. However, all these attempts have not
achieved the impact she is striving for. Despite Clotilde’s persistent remarks, everyone seems to
think that the murder is merely heresay, unable to concieve the thought that the Vicario brothers
would kill anyone, let alone a well-liked and only semi-rich man like Santiago Nasar. As I
theorize from the quote, Clotilde is burdened with this kind of responsibility, and feels as though
women oftentimes bear the brunt of these situations in which they are the only ones that truly
recognize the severity. But this also places her in a juxtaposition, because the gender roles in this
community assert that women do not have the authority, and therefore do not receive validity
from others, to actually make a difference. In addition, Clotilde probably does not receive
support from others, particularly men, when she speaks out, thereby furthering her alienation and
loneliness.

Passage #2:
“Ever since then they were still linked by a serious affection, but without the disorder of love”
(blue book: 65, green book:75).

Santiago Nasar and Maria Alejandra Cervante used to participate in a passionate love affair, with
Santiago especially enamored by Maria, even referring to her as his “mistress of tears”. Once
their relationship was discovered and destroyed by Santiago’s father, their once spirited love
turned into a condemned desire. Strong, affectionate emotions can come at a price, often
resulting in messy situations in which one party is unsatisfied with how the other displays their
feelings. And eventually, this can become “disorderly” and burdensome. While their separation
stripped away these passionate feelings, their attraction remained. In this way, they are able to
maintain this deep connection, but in a way that allows both Santiago and Maria to be less
attached to one another.

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