Chronicle of a Death Fortold (pg 48 - 100)

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The vicario twins who killed Santiago are no talking to the narrator and telling him, what they did. The twins looked for Santiago at Maria place, they stayed there until it was two o'clock. Since Santiago wasn't there they went to Clothilde Armenta's milk shop to wait until he comes out. They pick out the two best knives they had and had them sharpened at a meat market, they were ready for Nasar. Faustino Santos is a butcher that the twins went to and he wonders why they are coming to him, he thought they were drunk that they didn't know what time it was. They talk about the wedding they say that they are going to kill Santiago Nasar. The twins are telling a lot of people that they are going to kill him. Some people didn't believe them when they said that. A police officer is told of the situation and goes to Clothilde Armenta's shop. He takes the knives away from the twins and tells them to go home. He thought the things were joking around. Then the twins went and got two other knifes and sharpened them. Thew twins stood by the milk shop waiting for Santiago to kill him. The twins stabbed nasar several times and he was taking to a public school where an autopsy was done on him by Father Carmen Amador because the doctor was absent. Santiago died, his wounds was too severe. The smell of Santiago is on the twains and they cant get it off. The twins are caught and place in prison. The whole Vicaro family left town. After Pablo gets out of jail three years later Prudencia Cotes moves to Manaure to marry him. Pablo learns to work with metals and he becomes a goldsmith. Pedro Vicario than goes to the army and know one ever heard of him anymore. When the narrator asks Angela if it was really Santiago Nasar who took her virginity she says it was him even though the narrator says Angela and Santiago were never seen together.

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"The Damage form the knives was only a beginning for the unforgiving autopsy that Father Carmen Amador found himself obliged to perorm in Dr. Dionisio Iguarian's absence" (Marquez 72).

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This is the first sentence of Chapter 4 and it shows that there is no hope for Santiago. From the start it shows that this is the end of him and know his murder is known. The way it is said and where it was put in the chapter gave it a big importance and that it shows that it is the climax of the story. I seen it coming but I never knew he was going to be killed like that.

Chronicle of a Death Fortold (pg 26 - 47)

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In this section of the book, the narrator is now telling the story of Angela Vicario's husband Bayardo San Roman. The story begins six months after the couple got married and that is in August. He is around the age of 30 but looks younger because he had the waist of a bullfighter which means his waist is small. When he arrived He sees Angela with her mom carrying baskets of flowers. It is not certain how they met. They seen each other for the first time on the national holiday in October during a charity bazaar or event where she was in charge of singing out the raffle numbers. As a gift for Angela's birthday he buys music box with some tickets he won at a raffle. Their engagement didn't really last long. at that time nobody knew she wasn't a virgin. They had their wedding which had a lot of gifts and alot of dancing. In the story the narrator remember the festival and remember that he propose to this women named Mercedes Barcha. Late at night around 11 O'clock Bayardo knock on Pura Victorio door Angela's mother and push Angela into her house. He did that because he found that she wasn't a virgin and then Pura held Angela by the hair and smack her and hit her but not loud enough to wake up her husband and her other daughter. When Angela was ask her took her virginity she said Santiago Nasar.

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"It was Angela who didn't want to marry him. He seemed too much of a man for me, she told me" (Marquez 34).

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I think that Angela said this because she saw Bayardo, a man of old tradition and high class. He dresses fancy and act fancy. I also think that she thinks she is too young for him. He is around the ages of 30 and Angela is younger. I agree with what she says. I think Bayardo is too much for her.

Chronicles of a Death Fortold (Pg 3 -25)

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This is a strange reading. In this book it seems like there are run on sentences and the way some of the words are arrange are different. The book starts with the narrator, probably the person who killed Santiago Nasar telling the story of Santiago. Before his death Santiago had dreams in which he was going through timber trees, and dreams that he was flying through the forest in a tin foil plane. From the readings of his mother, she said those are not ominous and no harm can come from it. Santiago was in a good the day was was killed. It was said that the day he died the weather was mostly cloudy skies, and a slight drizzle. He whore what he wore on special occasions which was white linage. When his father died he had to stop his studies so he can keep the farm going. Him and his father spoke Arabic with each other, but not in front of the mother so she wouldn't feel excluded. Victoria Guzman and her daughter Divina Flor, who serve Santiago coffee almost every morning heard Santiago was going to be killed but wasn't sure if this was true or not. Under the front door of house, there was a letter that said someone was waiting to kill him, but that letter wasn't read until his death. Santiago had done things that didn't make him a good man, such as touch a woman unappropriated when she doesn't agree with it or like it. Twins, Pedro and Pablo Vicario, 24 years of age were waiting for Santiago in a shop with knifes rolled up and hidden in a newspaper. Santiago was killed because talk was going around that he was mixed up in the situation of the Angela Santiago and her soon to be husband. Her husband found that she was not a virgin and somehow Santiago was mixed up in that. so that got Santiago to be killed.

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"I also knew that he kept the guns in one place and hid the ammunition in another far removed so that nobody, not even casually, would yield to the temptation of loading them inside the house"(Marquez 6).

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This is a good method in making sure your home is safe when you have kids and a weapon such as a gun in the house. This method requires searching unless the two objects are known where to be found. These two objects of course are the gun and bullets, with one but the not other, the weapon can not be in use in no way. The separation of the two guarantee safety. I say this is a good for a house hold where children are around. In some areas guns maybe be required in every home as a way of safety precaution of keeping the family safe from intruders that have the mentality to harm in any way or to still.

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (pg 182 -219)

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Even though he quit he still keep in touch with old friends who worked in other company's such as the World Bank, USAID, IMF, Bechtel and others. It is now in the late eighties an John is focusing about How Iraq is. Companies like Bechtel and Halliburton were hoping to make deals in Iraq with Saddam Hussein. To economist Iraq was more than a place full of money. He was able to completely quit his consulting Job. Venezuala is a a country whose culture and history is big and its oil production is also big. It has been a prized nation by economists and engineers. Venezuelan oil was being pumped out of the ground for the profit of foreign companies. John visited Ecuador again 35 years after he was in the peace corps. He took in mind how the Amazone Rain forest have went from being full of trees and grass to it now being just weeds. People were asking John about the United States invasion in Iraq. John says that the U.S citizens no little about it and that more people in the Jungles of South America know more about it than them. Reasons behind the difficult situation of the invasion of U.S troops in Iraq is talk about in the last few pages of the book. John says that Saddam Housain would still be in charge if he was able to be bought out by the corporatocracy. John think that one reason for the invasion of the U.S in Iraq is that if the US controlled Iraq and its many oil then the US could have the oil.

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"This time, I had come in order to try to prevent a war for three decades I had helped to provoke" (Perkins 206)

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He is talking about going back to Ecuador to try and help prevent the war between the U.S and Iraq. It is good that he saw that what he was doing for many years was wrong and that he needs to fix it. I like that he went back and try to help the cause. He felt as if he was a cause of it and i agree with that. Through his experience through life from his young age in the business to old age he learn that there are many things wrong in the world. I can say I am starting to understand more about the problems that are in the world.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (pg 143 - 181)

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To John, Ecuador is like second home, home away from home. He visited Ecuador. In Ecuador Johnmet Jaime Roldos a university professor and attorney in his late thirties. He wanted to redistribute wealth and land to the poor people of his country and he wanted to do that with oil. He had to fight multi-national oil corporations in his bid to control Ecuador's vast oil reserves. The Summer Institute of linguistics (SIL), a missionary group from the U.S did not support Roldos. The SIL main purpose or goal was teaching English to native tribes people throughout the Central American region. By doing that they were now able to teach them Christianity and urge them to set up and attend church services. John admires Roldos and other leaders like him for having the courage to stand up to powerful organizations for the good of people who could never pay him back. Bruno, on of Main employes got fired and it shock the people at Main. The Chairman of the company had fired Bruno because he was threatened by his powerful nature and incredible profit earnings the company had produced under his command. They wanted people that were not a big threat for them. After that John became angry and h e hated the life he had created for himself. He quit when he returned to Boston on April 1, 1980. The President of Ecuador died and John express his sadness over the death of Roldos even though he expected it. Just a couple months after the strange death of Roldos, Torrijos died in plane crash. John struggled with being an expert witness because he was testifying under oath that he believed in the is economic predictions even though he knew they were leis. In early 1980's John remarried a woman name Winifred and had a daughter they name Jessica. He than made a company name Independent Power Systems (IPS). The company developed power plants that benefited the environment. After that he sold IPS and became a very well paid adviser on the board of a growing energy company, Stone and Webster Engineering and Construction.

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" He also confessed to having nightmares about his own assassination;he saw himself dropping from the sky in a gigantic fireball"( Perkins 157).

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This is ironic because he foreshadows his own death. I found it weird and funny how he can have a dream of how he was going to die and and he eventually died that way. He did not know if he was going to die in a plan crash but he knew it would involve falling from the sky and fire. Like him I had dream where i say myself falling from a high play and it is not a pleasant thing to dream. For him it was probably devastating.

Confessions of an Economic Hit man (pg 92 - 142)

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John had the job/mission of persuading Prince W. of Saudi Arabia that the Saudi Arabia Money-laundering Affair would benefit his country as well as him personally. On Prince w. stay in Boston he asked for entertainment from a blond female which became sally. This mission gave John difficulties. He had to figure out how to pay for her services. The Prince agreed to pay for the services and he ask john if sally or a female similar to sally can be found to go back to Saudi Arabia with him, and that is what John did. John Knew if he failed with the prince MAIN will blame him and the cost failing is high. In the end it all worked out. Saudi Arabia's kingdom went from being a desert to a modern city. The U.S and Saudi Arabia alliance was there and the countries help protect each other. As time went on it seems as if the alliance was weakening which cause terrorist groups and attacks. Because of John's Success with Prince W. which help with the contract between the two countries, John career advanced. he was able to hire people to work for him. Torrijos relationship with John grew closer. John Published an article in the Boston Globe which was about three specific reasons for transferring the canal to Panama.Tarrijos was happy and MAIN was getting Huge contract deals. John met Yamin a tall man with long hair who gad an accent that made it easy to figure out he was Iranian. The two talked and John found that Yamin knew a lot about him. Yamin told John his appreciation for there time spent talking and he mention his young age and how open minded he was. John toured all over Iran in his visits and met new people. Yamin took John to see an old man in a wheel chair in a hut who told John he was like him and he told him That Main will lose millions because the new ruling party would simply refuse to pay and that the U.S will be hated. With each new project he have completed would update it on his resume. Even though his resume shows him as an intelligent man sometimes he had to down help self so he can do dirty work.

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" Yet. it took the experience of working in countries like Indonesia, Panama, Iran, and Colombia in order for me to understand the deeper implications" (Pg 128).

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John Perkins was told about his Job once he got into MAIN but he did not see how big his job is until he actually done them. He thought the Job at MAIN would be that hard and that there would not be much problems but he found that was not necessarily true once he actually start going to places such as those ones .

Confessions of an Economic Hitman (PG 44-92)

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There is many background information not only about the author's life in this book but also some past historical events of the United states. The Nixon- world puppeteer show where an Indonesian was stab by the Bucket mans flag and died a dramatic death. The Indonesian woman believe that the American government see Indonesia and other countries as "grapes" to them or inferior countries to them. Indonesians are very conscious of politics. Arnold Toynbee was a historian and in the fifties he predicted that the war in the next century would not be between communist and capitalist, but between Christians and Muslims, and he was right. I agree with what the English major said when she said the U.S Nation are more concern with big houses, fancy stores and oil for there cars instead of concerning about dieing babies, poverty and cries of help in other countries. After the Major have said that, John thought about it for a while and then went on the streets and handed money to beggars, attempted to engaged lepers, prostitutes, and street urchins in conversation. John consider himself as a person who wasn't innocent anymore, he has seen the big picture. He thought about what could of been if the U.S and its allies were to do the common good. Later on in the book, when he tried to get back in contact with Claudine the MAIN offices said they have no record of that person. He starts to wonder about many different things such as benefits from war and he starts to look at people differently. Panama was ruled by an oligarchy of wealthy families with strong connections to Washington. Torrijos, the head of states was committed to turning his nation into a haven for fugitives from persecution a place that could offer asylum to refugees.

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"Our own statistic about violence, depression, drug abuse, and crime indicated that although ours was one of the wealthiest societies in history, it may also be one of the least happy societies" ( pg 57)

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I agree with this quotation 100%. I think that our societies has a lot of problems and it is covered up by the money. In most places in our society some can say that people keep quit about certain things and do not interact with each other that very well. There is hatred among ourselves, even though its not noticeable. Our statistics on those matters and high.