Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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    SANTIAGO LIFESPAN

    Santiago died in 21 on February 19, 1951 due to murder (page 24).
  • Bayardo San ROman arrives

    page 25, no one had ever heard/seen about him before
  • Angela Vicario Wedding

    the night before the killing of Santiago
  • San Roman returned Victoria to her home after wedding

    The mother went on to beat Victoria and Victoria went to falsely blame it on Santiago Nassar.
  • Santiago's Murder

    Santiago was murdered on a Monday (page 3)
  • Vicario Twins pursuit of Santiago

    "they had begun looking for him at María Alejandrina Cervantes's place" (Marquez 49).
  • Viccario brothers pursuit of Santiago

    "After the sister revealed the name to them, the Vicario twins went to the bin in the pigsty where they kept there sacrificial tools and picked out the best two knives" (Marquez 50).
  • Viccario brothers pursuit of Santiago

    "They rapped them in rags and went to sharpen them at the meat market" (Marquez 51).
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    Narrator's Search for briefs

    Why did he want to clear his name so bad? Was he trying to cover his own name? "And after five years rummaging around only one chance let me rescue 322 pages filched from more than 500 that the brief must have contained" (Marquez 99).
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    Vicario Brothers years spent at Riochacha

    "In the panopticon of Riohacha, where they spent three years awaiting for trial as they could not afford bail" (49)
  • Dismemberment of Viccarios

    "Poncio Vicario, the father, died a short time later, "His moral pain carried him off"... Pedro Viccario without love, or a job, reenlisted in the armed forces three years later ... and was never heard of again" (Marquez 83).
  • Bayardo's destruction

    "He was in the last stages of ethylic intoxication... "Nobody fucks with me", [Bayardo] said. "Not even my father with his veteran balls"." (Marquez 85).
  • Bayardo returns to Angela

    "Bayardo San Roman took a step forward, unconcerned about the other astonished embroidered, and laid his saddlebags on the Ewing machine. "Well," he said, "here I am"." (Marquez 95).
  • Placida Linero (Santiagos mother) recalls on Santiagos dreams

    Thinking back on Santiago and his tendencies about when he wakes up, talking to Gabriel Marquez
  • Narrators POV

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

    "They burst panting into the parish house, closely pursued by a group of roused-up Arabs, and they laid the knives, with clean blades, on Father Amador's desk" (Marquez 48).