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Nikoleta asked this question about Chronicle of a Death Foretold:
Do you think Angela slept with Santiago or did she only bluff in order to save her true lover?
Don I read the five answers and I'm left gasping. I never saw it as a rape (and still don't). It's not a report, it's a novel and it seems to me its liter…moreI read the five answers and I'm left gasping. I never saw it as a rape (and still don't). It's not a report, it's a novel and it seems to me its literary aim is to hold the village up to scrutiny and leave the question open as to whether Santiago is even the guilty party. Personally, I concluded that he wasn't. Coming from "catholic" Ireland I can assure you that there is no need for a rape in order to heap ignominy and disgrace on the woman and excuse the man. I'm satisfied that GGM was exposing an entirely different moral issue than rape; the crime of silence.(less)
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by Gabriel García Márquez
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