One of the greatest mistakes in literature is when the author conjures a novel "by telling the story, by selecting and carefully arranging the conflicting versions of events into a highly structured narrative"(Lilburn). Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez employs this complicated, often misconstrued style to convey "a seemingly simple story about the murder of a young man in a small Columbian town." (Lilburn). A first glimpse into the novel, the narrator thoroughly finds and compiles information relating to the crime. However, if one were to look deep and intensely into the novel's plot, one would notice that "new information contradicts and undermines more often than if clarifies" as one reads through the chapters. "It is about the heart blowing to bits from the burden of its own beat." (H.Gass) Through the novel overall structure and use of language, high school students are often misconstrued and misguided to a writer's purpose and rhetoric by the novel's jumbled and unrelated events of which a murder currently happening, already happened, or is about to happen. "The book wasn't horrible, but the author keeps on switching topic. Anyways he does not write in an easy to follow manner either. I wasn't to partial to reading this book maybe b/c I was forced to read it b/c of school but it's not something I would have picked to read otherwise" (Natalie, B&N book review). This novel, thus proves to be unfit for the high school curriculum by its failure to depict a through and meaningful comprehension of the author motives and purpose, a central basis for reading a piece of literature.
             First, the narrator repeatedly contradicts new events and actions and weakens old ones than clarify in a typical novel. For example, through the narrator's point of view, the reader is exposed to fluctuating explanations of the weather during the morning of the crim...