Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez seeks to critique the notion of honor killing through the effects of Marquez's use of numerous structural elements that contribute to the overall nonlinear structure. The most significant of these is the journalistic framework that portrays this sense of fragmentation and the use of a first-person but omniscient narrator that subtly suggests that the victim was innocent. This criticism is reinforced by the use of repetition which evokes a foreboding tone of the symbolic society's inability and unwillingness to prevent murder. Furthermore, among the various sentence structures exposed, the passive voice guarantees the ability of the characters in the novel to avoid responsibility regarding the murder. Thus, through these effects of Márquez's structural choices, he criticizes the entire notion of honor killing. In the novel there is no chronological structure but instead a non-linear journalistic framework is adopted. This portrays a sense of inconsistency that can be extrapolated to represent the disorder of society with respect to honor killing. This notion is evident in the novel as it consists of fragments of evidence pieced together at different stages. The narrator sifts through factual evidence, eyewitness statements, and other “scattered fragments” (Marquez 2007) in an attempt to reconstruct “the broken mirror of memory” (Marquez 2007). These quotes are actually representative of the novel itself: the plot is "broken"; the "mirror of memory" is symbolic of the mirroring repetitions of dreams and motifs; and the evidence gathered by the narrator is fragmented, just like the plot, consisting only of "scattered fragments". Therefore, the structure of the novel is depicted... in the center of the card... and evokes a sense of the supernatural. Also, in relation to diction; the use of the word 'syrup' evokes a sense of sweetness that contrasts with the actual harshness of the sight. Therefore, although this is actually a gruesome sight, it is masked by the surreal atmosphere representing the confused and delirious state of the citizens which results in their false impression that the murder would not have taken place. Throughout Gabriel Garcia Márquez's Chronicle a Death Foretold, its structure emerges as a significant aspect of the novel; either at a macroscopic level in terms of event structure and repetition of motifs or at a microscopic level in terms of sentence structure. However, these choices and structural elements reinforce Márquez's overall criticism of Santiago's murder and, therefore, of the honor system..