Santiago Nasr at the beginning of the book, it completely blurts out that he is going to be murdered. The Book in a first person narration and it takes place 27 years later; a reporter is collecting interviews of people in the community about this murder. He dies on his wedding died, the day the bishop was going to visit in the e town. He always carried guns but was very discreet when saving and hiding the, but on his wedding day. Santiago is slim, pale, and has curly hair. His mother named Placida Linero has a 6th sense, which Nasar inherits. Ibrahim Nasar, Santiago's father allows Santiago to inherit the love for horses and firearms, Ibrahim is also known for having affairs with the servant like Santiago Nasar. The men were going to kill Santiago through the front door, which was never used, but on his wedding day known as his "Fatal door". The house used to be a warehouse and had a huge structure. Victoria Guzman the servant knew that he was going to die. However, her daughter Divina Flor, which has an affair with Santiago , admits that her mother wanted him to die. Before he left his house for his wedding that day, he touched Divina inappropriately, before he left, a envelope had been left in the house that explained the motives for his deaths, but it was found long after his death. Two men would kill him, twins called Pedro and Pablo Vicario, 24 years old. The Bishop doesn't even stop to greet Nasar and Santi felt cheated. The narrator’s sister called Margot meets Santiago at the pier where the whole town is to see the Bishop pass by, she doesn't know about the death. Flora Miguel is Santiago's bride; Santiago is really excited for his wedding at the dock. Many people describe him as a person of his word and 21 years old. Cristo Bedoya, his friend, leaves with him from the pier to go to Margot’s house, that’s the last time he was seen. Many people knew that Santiago was going to get killed but they thought they thought that sense he wasn't killed earlier then he wasn't in trouble, the killers had waited for the bishop to pass. The killers had waited across the street of Nasar's house, which was located in front of the dock. Everyone in the town thought that he had been warned but he didn’t. Most people were too interested in the Bishop's arrival to care about other gossip. After he hadn't stepped off, Margot found out that Angela Vicario’s brothers wanted to kill Santi, Somehow Angela Vicario had gotten married the day before and was sent home because she wasn't a virgin. Mother shows that she already knew about it when Margot gets home. When the reporters mother finds out, she runs to tell Placida but she finds out that they had already killed him. Bayardo San Roman gave back the bride Angela Vicario, he's 30 years old and wealthy. The whole town is thinks that he is enchanting and charming. He was town hopping looking for a wife and wans an engineer , wanted to marry Angela Vicario. When the reporter met him, he appeared like a sad man, not as charming and bright as his mother described in letters. Poncio Vicario and Purisima del carmen are Angela Vicario's parnets, Bayardo San Roman goes and meets them. The reporters name is named Merecedes, they beocme engaged around the same time. Purisima seemed as strict as a noun, she raised her 4 daughters to marry and know housewife qualitites, and Pablo and Pedro to become men. Prisima makes San Roman identify himself and he brought his family, which impressed the wohle town. Angela Vicario didn't want to marry Roman because he was to much of a man for her bu t she was talked into it by her family. There engagement is four months long, San Roman buys a house for her, the nicest one in town from widower Xius. He offers Widower Xius's so much many for the house he loved, that he died. Angela Vicario was very worrried before the wedding happened about her hiding her not being a virgin. There wedding was scheduled for the Bishops visit so he could marry them and they received many gifts before hand. On the day of the wedding, San Roman fixed the Vicario's modest house up for a party and Angela waited until he came home for her to get ready after the wedding, Sangiago Nasar ahd even gone to the festival with reporter and Cristo Bedoya. San Roman brings Angela Vicario home, she's in shreds with a towel around her worst, San Roman pushes her inside and Purisima beats her silently. Angela tellsher brothers it was Santiago Nasar.
Quotes
"Then it it was that my sister Margot learned about it in a thorough and brutal way: Angela Vicario, the beautiful girl who'd gotten married the day before, had been returned to the house of her parents , because her husband had discovered that she wasn't a virgin" (Marquez 21).
Reaction
My reaction to this quote was jaw dropping. One, because this is probably the reason why Santiago Nasar gets killed, but it is wierd because Marquez decides to reveal this to the reader just in the first chapter of the book. It also brings up when of the points or perhaps moral that the book insinuates in the blurb of the book which is codes that men and women impose on women. But then again, this was the type of culture at the time. This phrase connects to the book as a whole because it shows the many implications that can be brought about from just one of these "immoral" acts.
