She says history reveals itself to be more structurally than the memories it attempts to chronicle. Weaver states that despite the limitation and biases the historical methods impose on the event the narrator would be unable to organize or recollect factual information surrounding the murder without a disciplinary structure. She further states that historical pursuit in the murder raises questions to the nature of time. Weaver claims that Marquez uses the form of chronicle to form attempts to segment time in order to study the murder from a linear approach. Weaver suggests that the use of chronicle reconnects the idea of time as surrounding and imposing upon the present. Weaver further states that Santiago and the towns’ people are subject to a linear experience of time, the omens in his dreams go unnoticed until it is too late for the interpretation to change the course of event. Additionally, Weaver suggests that the haunting memories of the townspeople revealed a burden of the past into the present claiming that time transcends the constraints created by linear consciousness. The nature and function of time emerge as something that defies both the linear consciousness of the human individuals and the factual expectations of the historical discipline which they have
She says history reveals itself to be more structurally than the memories it attempts to chronicle. Weaver states that despite the limitation and biases the historical methods impose on the event the narrator would be unable to organize or recollect factual information surrounding the murder without a disciplinary structure. She further states that historical pursuit in the murder raises questions to the nature of time. Weaver claims that Marquez uses the form of chronicle to form attempts to segment time in order to study the murder from a linear approach. Weaver suggests that the use of chronicle reconnects the idea of time as surrounding and imposing upon the present. Weaver further states that Santiago and the towns’ people are subject to a linear experience of time, the omens in his dreams go unnoticed until it is too late for the interpretation to change the course of event. Additionally, Weaver suggests that the haunting memories of the townspeople revealed a burden of the past into the present claiming that time transcends the constraints created by linear consciousness. The nature and function of time emerge as something that defies both the linear consciousness of the human individuals and the factual expectations of the historical discipline which they have