The Power of a Community The cultural values and standard of living within a community has a way of molding individuals and their ways of life to fit certain criteria. In his Novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, author Gabriel Garcia Marquez demonstrates how the value of honor and machismo can be powerful and victimizing of individuals like the Vicario brothers. These set values can sometimes be powerful enough to manipulate one’s actions even if one knows that action to be morally wrong. By analyzing