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The setting at the beginning of the novel provides a sympathetic background to the action and the feelings of Gjorg. The snow and wild pomegranates are personified as silent watchers and motionless witnesses , waiting to see what he might do. April, for Gjorg has been metaphorically broken .
The airplane that Gjorg encounters as he is making his journey towards the castle of Orosh is anachronistic as it does not fit with the description of the sense of place in this chapter.
The Kanun, the code of customary law, plays a major role thus far in Broken April.
The loss of a culture. The fourth chapter leaves the plot rather stagnant as the entirety of the chapter is Mark Ukacierra thinking.
In the beginning of the chapter Gjorg returns home after paying the blood tax.