Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez Gabriel Garcia Marquez grew up in Columbia. Gabriel’s wife’s grandparents did not like the relationship of Gabriel’s mother and Gabriel’s father. Gabriel grew up with his grandparents because his grandparents did approve of the relationship. When Gabriel grew up with his grandparents, they would tell him all sorts of stories. His grandpa told him many war stories, how his grandpa was a war hero, and Gabriel’s grandpa’s political views rubbed off on him. Gabriel didn’t take the bible literally and didn’t have very many religious beliefs, but he grew up in the culture so he still got the concept of it. His grandmother told him many stories too. His grandmother told him about omens and premonitions, irrefutable and many supernatural stories. Gabriel eventually moved back in with his parents at age 8. Gabriel proposed at age 13. Gabriel later got lymphatic cancer and dementia at 86 years old. Gabriel attended the boarding school, Barranquilla. Gabriel was very studious and was known as “The old man”. After, he got awarded 12 scholarships to prestigious schools. Gabriel attended University of Columbia, Bogota. Gabriel was forced into studying law. While doing this he wrote for el espectador. Gabriel then attended the University of Cartagena and continued law studies and then quit. He then met Ramon Vinyes. Gabriel won the Nobel Prize in 1982 for prose and for fantastic and realistic together. Then Gabriel wrote One Hundred Years of solitude. Gabriel wrote this right after he pulled over, stopped the car, and went home. He wrote for 9 months. Gabriel got this idea and was inspired from his grandparents. When writing Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Marquez used real life situations to tie into his book. For Santiago Nasar, he used a childhood friend that was murdered. In the book the narrorator was thought to be Gabriel, Mercedes bocha was

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