Anna Karenina, Death Foretold

The Understanding of Characters Through Relationships Relationships create strong holds in novels. They give a sense of what to base a character's acts and decision's on. Through how the author uses their tone and descriptions, relating to relationships, a sense of characterization can be developed. "Anna Karenina", by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Joel Carmichael, and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa, are no exception to this clause. Relationships …

…s the characters these qualities. "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Joel Carmichael, and "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa, both use relationships to explain who the characters are. The characters throughout the novel are related to a relationship or relationships of some sort. Because of the author using these relationships to their literary benefit the relationships show a sense of who the characters are.