Chronicle of a death foretold

  • Period: to

    Ibrahim and Guzman have affair

    page 8-9
  • 6 months before the murder

    Bayardo San Román arrives in the village. ch2 pg 25
  • Bayardo chooses Angela as his future wife

    pg 34
  • Bayardo arrives

    page 25 six months before the wedding
  • Nasar turns 21

  • Santiago Nasar's death

    The day Santiago Nasar died was the day the Bishop was coming. 27 years later, his mother, Placida said that he was always dreaming about trees. A week earlier she said he had a dream about being in a tin foil plane and flying through trees without hitting anything. Santiago ran into many people 5 minutes past 6 before being murdered an hour later. That morning the weather was not great that day. A month earlier, he had just turned 21. His dad died 3 years prior to his death.
  • chapter 1

    Santiago rises and dresses in a formal outfit of white linen. When Santiago is working in the country, the narrator informs us, he carries a gun, but he leaves it behind today. In fact, his house is filled with guns, but he keeps them under lock and key, a safety precaution his late father, Ibrahim Nasar, taught him.
  • Angela Vicario's Wedding

    to Bayardo
    p.21
  • Wedding day

    General Petronio San Román and family arrive on the National Congress' ceremonial boat. Formal activities end, the guests of honor leave on the boat. Angela sends for a suitcase of personal things and regular clothes. Pura Vicario goes to bed, after cleaning up after the party.
  • Night Before Murder pt 1

    The “after-party” breaks up.
     01:00 - Bayardo knocks at Pura Vicario’s door, returns Angela.
     Angela is subsequently beaten.
     02:00 - Nasar drinks/serenades with Cristo Bedoya, Narrator, Luis Enrique, and others.
     03:00 - Pura Vicario summons her twins home.
     Angela tells them that it was Santiago Nasar.
     They go to the pigsty and get knives.
     03:20 - The Vicario brothers go to the meat market to sharpen the knives.
     04:00 - Cristo Bedoya is with Santiago Nasar and the Narrator.
  • The Bishop's Boat arrives

    Santiago Nasar leaves his house. The Vicario Brothers awake on a bench, see Santiago Nasar pass by. Luis Enrique briefly awakes in his bathroom, but falls asleep again. Flora Miguel awakes, soon finds out about the murder and the twins' motives, and she cries.
  • Margot offers breakfast to Santiago and he accpets

    06:25 Nasar decides to change clothes before he eats breakfast at the Narrator’s/Margot's house. He says he will be there by 6:40.
  • Angela is beaten

    Bayardo knocks at Pura Vicario’s door, and returns Angela.
    Angela is subsequently beaten. Nasar drinks/serenades with Cristo Bedoya, Narrator, Luis Enrique, and others. Pura Vicario summons her twins home. Angela tells them that it was Santiago Nasar. Ch2 pg 47 "'All right girl, he said to her, trembling with rage, "tell us who it was" [...]"Santiago Nasar''. (Marqeuz 47).
  • Night Before Murder pt 2

    Colonel Lazaro Aponte wakes up.
     04:10 - The Vicario brothers go to Clotilde Armenta's.
     The Narrator goes to the brothel; his brother stops by the milkshop to buy cigarettes; the twins tell him
    they're going to kill Santiago; they offer him a “fatal drink” of “liquid fire”
     04:20 - Santiago Nasar enters his house, sleeps for 1 hour.
  • Autopsy

    18:00 - The autopsy is performed on Santiago Nasar’s body. It is a grotesque, botched affair. Pg 75 ch 4
  • Period: to

    Angela writes letters to Bayardo

  • Nasar wakes up on the day of his death

    Santiago Nasar wakes up from a dream on the day of his death. Victoria Guzmán wakes him up. Santiago reports his dream to his mother. He goes downstairs to drink his coffee, while Victoria and Divina Flor butcher rabbits
  • Narrator and Maria

     The Narrator goes to Maria Alejandrina Cervantes's, dreams—then they don't have sex.
     Throughout the day, everything smells of Santiago Nasar.
    Pg 80
  • Right before the murder occurs

    The mayor tells Cristo he's going to intercept the twins, but checks on a domino date in the social club Pg 109 Cristo goes toward the Narrator's house, thinking Santiago might have gone there for breakfast. Pg 103
    Divina Flor says that she saw Santiago return to the house and go up the stairs, carrying possibly roses. Pg 116
    Cristo spends 7 minutes with the Arangos, helping with their father, so cannot stop the murder. Pg 110
    Santiago Nasar is “carved up like a pig.” Pg 120
  • twins aquitted

    chapter 3 pages 48-49
  • 27 years after murder

    The narrator returns to Santiago's house 27 years later
  • Period: to

    years later

    Mom talks about how he always had dreams
    "any dream about birds means good health" page 6