Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By katemccall9

  • Ibrahim and Guzman have an affair

    Chapter 1 (Pg 8-9): They meet with each other in the town and they fall in love Victoria Guzman: the Nasars' cook. She violently guts rabbits on the morning of the murder and feeds it to the dogs.
  • Period: to

    Santiago Nasar's lifespan

    Santiago is born and takes after his father. By inheriting his father's property and some of his traits, and is murdered in as part of an honor killing.
    - Died at 21 years old

  • 21 Years Before the Murder

    21 Years Before the Murder:
    - Placida Linero gives birth to Santiago Nasar
    - Father is Ibrahim Nasar
    - Ibrahim Nasar trys to seduce Divina Flor (harassing her)
    Devina Flor: Victoria Guzman's daughter. Santiago desires her sexually, but Victoria watches carefully to make sure he does not do anything to her.

  • Three years before the murder

    Santiago's father dies (Pg 7)
    - Santiago's father is Ibrahim Nasar
    Santiago's father, an Arab. He taught his son the art of falconry and his love of firearms.
    1865 - 2/8/1951

  • Bayardo comes to Sucre

    Sucre, Colombia
    Bayardo San Roman (simmilar to the murder victim- also perceived as a foreginer), he arrives into the town in expensive trousers, gloves and a jacket.
    - Perceived as handsome, enchanting and wealthy "Bayardo San Román, the man who had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding," (Pg 25). Mother wrote to narrator that Bayardo San Roman has arrived in town (pg. 26)

  • Bayardo San Roman brings his whole family

    Bayardo San Roman brings his whole family: “the father, the mother, and two provocative sisters.” They arrived in a “Model T Ford” and aroused the streets at eleven o’clock in the morning.”

  • The twins bring Bayardo San Roman home

    The twins bring Bayardo San Roman home the day after the bazaar along with a music box.

  • December: 2 months before the murder

    Xius died and sold house to Bayardo
    Angela's mother did not allow Angela to look at houses with Bayardo to keep her honor.

  • Bayardo buys Xuis house for Angela

    Bayardo bought the house in an effort to buy Angela's love because she didnt want to marry him Bayardo wants to buy Xius's house, but it "does not have a pric." (35)

  • Angela Vicario's wedding

    Margot learns that Angela Vicario, the bride of the day before, has been returned to her parents' house because her husband has discovered that she isn't a virgin.
    - the night before the killing of Santiago "Unlike engagements of the time, which were long and supervised, theirs lasted only four months, due to Bayardo's urgings," (García Márquez 35). "The only unforseen surprise was caused by the groom on the morning, for he was two hours late in coming for Angela Vicario," (García Márquez 41).

  • Day of wedding at 12

    Bayardo arrived two hours late to wedding.
    Angela refused to get dressed until "she saw him." (40)

  • Vicario brothers (twins) motive to kill Santiago

    "She only took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. 'Santiago Nasar,' she said," (Pg 47).

  • Santiago's murder

    Murder is on a Monday (in february)
    Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister (taking her virginity)

    Santiago Nasar will now be killed: as everyone makes their way toward the bishop's boat, the two men who are waiting to kill Santiago, Pedro Vicario and Pablo Vicario are waiting at the local milk shop, the only place that is open at that hour.

  • The Vicario brothers (twins) are released

    Chapter 3 (Pg 48-49): Released from prison in Riohacha
    The Vicario twins spend three years in prison awaiting trial but are acquitted in court, after which Pablo marries his fiancée, Prudencia Cotes and Pedro leaves for the armed forces.
    After 3 years- the twins plea is up
    Plea= a plea or deal is used in the courtroom so thatpoeple can confess to doing smething already under the deal that thye will be safe or already have a certain amount of years in jail.

  • 12 days after death

    "Most of all, he never thought it legitimate that life should make use of so many coincidences forbidden leiterature, so that there should be the untrammeled fulfulmemnt of a death so dearly foretold" (99).

  • Pedro Vicario goes off the grid

    Goes missing on patrol- he is never heard of again.

  • 14 years later

    Narrator and Mercedes Barcha get married (pg. 43)
    - Mercedes Barcha reminds Marquez of his proposal in marriage to her as soon as she finished primary school -Reminds him that he did this out of confusion because of the festival

  • 20 years later

    Narrator looks for the brief (pg. 98)

  • 23 years later

    Narrator tries to talk to Bayardo, was received with certain aggressiveness, refused to give any information (pg. 87)
    Narrator visits Angela by chance => recounts her story about Bayardo (pg. 88-89)

  • Placida Linero (Santiagos mother) recalls on Santiagos dreams

    Thinking back on Santiago and his tendencies about when he wakes up, talking to Gabriel Marquez Chapter 5: Placida Linero never forgave herself for mixing up the bad omen of birds with the good omen of trees in her son's dream, and telling her son, before his death, that his dream boded good health.

  • Narrator's POV

    Narrator comes back to investigate the murder of Santiago by talking to those around the town.