To understand the role of religion in "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, first we have to understand the setting of plot, the era where the story has been set, the society and community it deals with. The work is set in an unnamed, remote part of Colombia. The novel is considered by many to be loosely based on the killing of Kitty Genovese in New York City in 1964. For the novella …showed first 75 words of 1478 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1478 total…satirical treatment meted out to the ugly face of religion in the novel. Bibliography: 1. Marquez, Gabriel "Chronicle of A Death Foretold" 2. Cross, mm "Notes on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold" http://www.student.yorku.ca/~yu249566/marquez.htm, last accessed on May 10, 2003 3. Morales, Donald, Ph.D. Professor of Literature, The Research Process: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold, http://www.mercynet.edu/faculty/morales/chronicledeath.html , last accessed on May 10, 2003