CDF Timeline - Ethan N.

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    Santiago's Lifespan

  • Santiago's Gun Lesson

    "Santiago Nasar, who was a young child at the time, never forgot the lesson of that accident" (Marquez 6).
  • Bayardo Appears Again

    "...had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding" (Marquez 25).
  • Narrator Meets Bayardo

    "I met him a short while after she did, when I came home for Christmas vacation..." (Marquez 28).
  • Santiago's 21st Birthday

    "He had turned twenty-one the last week in January...' (Marquez 7).
  • Angela Vicario's Wedding

    to Bayardo. Pg. 21
  • Santiago's Murder

    Occurs on a Monday before 6 am. "I only knew that at six o'clock in the morning everybody knew it" (Marquez 112).
  • Twins Acquitted

    "The lawyer stood by the thesis of homicide in legitimate defense of honor, which was upheld by the court in good faith..." (Marquez 48).
  • Vicario Brothers Sent to Jail

    "...three o' clock in the morning on Tuesday when the mayor brought her to say good-bye to them" (Marquez 82).
  • Vicario Brothers In Jail (3 Years)

    "In the panopticon of Ríohacha, where they spent three years awaiting trial because they couldn't afford bail..." (Marquez 49).
  • Magistrate Comes to Sucre

    "Twelve days after the crime, the investigating magistrate came upon a town that was an open wound" (Marquez 98).
  • Angela Sends Letters to Bayardo

    "Toward the end of that week..., she wrote him the first letter" (Marquez 92).
    "At the end of two months..., she sent him another letter..." (Marquez 93).
    "Six months later she had written six letters with no reply..." (Marquez 93).
  • Policeman (Leandro Pornoy) Dies

    "The policeman, according to the brief, was named Leandro Pornoy, and he died the following year..." (Marquez 53).
  • Santiago's Dad's Death

    "...but he seemed happy with his father until the latter died suddenly, three years before..." (Marquez 7)
  • Pablo Vicario Marries Prudencia Cotes

    "...and she went on waiting for three years without a moment of discouragement until Pablo Vicario got out of jail and became her husband for life" (Marquez 63).
  • Narrator's Marriage to Mercedes Barcha

    "...she would remind me fourteen years later when we got married" (Marquez 44).
  • Bayardo Returns to Angela

    Bayardo appears at Angela's doorstep with all of the unopened letters she wrote to him and a suitcase full of clothes (wants to stay). This occurs in August, seventeen years after she first began writing to him. Page 95
  • Narrator Attempts to Speak with Bayardo

    "The only time I tried to talk to him, twenty-three years later..." (Marquez 87).
  • Narrator Meets Current Angela Vicario

    "But it was she: Angela Vicario, twenty-three years after the drama" (Marquez 89).
  • Narrator's Point of View

    "Placida Linero, his mother, told me twenty-seven years later, recalling the details of that distressing Monday" (Marquez 3).
  • Victoria Guzman's Death

    "...she told me when I came to see her, a short time before her death" (Marquez 8).