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Santiago has a lesson on guns as a child
"Never forget the lesson of the accident." (Marquez 6) -
6 months before the murder
"Bayardo San Roman, the man who had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August the year before: six months before the wedding" (Marquez 25). -
Bayardo meets the narrarator
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Angela gets beaten
"The twins returned home a short time before three, urgently summoned by their mother. They found Angela Vicario lying face down on the dining room couch, her face all bruised" (Marquez 47). Angela tells them it was Santiago. -
Santiago is killed by the Vicario twins
"Then they both kept on knifing him against the door with alternate and easy stabs" (Marquez 70). Santiago was killed as an honorable man, not giving up as he was being held up against the door and wiping the dirt off his destroyed stomach. -
Vicarios get sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for the murder of Santiago
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Angela writes letters to Bayardo.
"She wrote him the first letter" (Marquez 92). This was the first of the thousands of letters she wrote to Bayardo in the span of 17 years. -
Pablo and Pedro Vicario are imprisoned
"Upheld by the court in good faith) (Marquez 48). -
The brothers express no remorse
"The twins declared at the end of the trial that they would have done it again and a thousand times over for the same reason" (Marquez 48). -
Bayardo finally goes to see Angela
After 17 years of letters, Bayardo returns with a suitcase of all the letters unopened, ribboned up in chronological order. The reader is left to decide why Bayardo never opened the letters.