Summary: After Angela is beaten by her mother, her brothers set out to find Santiago Nasar in order to kill him. They began looking for him at Maria Alejandrina Cervantes place, where they were with him until about 2 o'clock. They went to Clothilde Armenta's milk shop, which was mentioned earlier, which was also near Santiago Nasar's house. They went their to wait for him to come out. However, before they had gone to the pigsty to pick up some fine knives and then went to go them sharpened at the meet market. The butcher Faustinos Santos wondered why they were coming in the first place and thought that they were still drunk and confused. The twins tell Faustinos that they are going to kill Santiago Nasar, but no one really believes them because they were/generally are good people. Faustino reports this to a police officer, who later reports it to Colonel Lazaro. Since the colonel had been regulating and separating fights the night before, he was in no rush to stop this murder, simply because he thought that it was a rumor and knew that the twins were good people and would never do that. However, once he hears that Angela had been brought back home, he connects the dots and realizes that this is in fact serious and finds the twins. Meanwhile, Clothilde had told her husband as well as Father Carmen Amador about this plan, but her husband thought she was being silly and Father Carmen Amador was so anxious about the Bishop is coming that he forgets and walks right by the milk shop where the murderers were waiting.
After Santiago is killed Father Carmen performs the autopsy and finds that Nasar had died from a massive hemorrhage that was brought by several fatal wounds. they then bury the body and the narrator goes on to the Maria Alejandrina's house. He tries to sleep with her, but she denies because she says that he smells too much like Santiago. Meanwhile, the Vicario brothers complain about that same smell and cant sleep because of it in their prison cells. The Vicario family leaves town to escape from all of the drama that occurred and little Angela covers up her face to hide the wounds and bruises that her mother gave her from before. She was also dressed up in a bright red color, so that no one would think that she was mourning Nasar's death. Later it is said that Pablo returns and marries his wife, he was lucky because she was only waiting to marry him because of the way he honored his sister; so they married and he worked with precious metals. Pedro on the other hand returned to the armed forces and was never heard from again. Everyone seemed to be moving on just fine, Angela had moved into a place called Guarija, in which she was an embroiderer. The narrator visited her and saw that she matured and was wise.witty. Before, everyone moved on, a week after Nasar's death it was said that Bayardo had been found lying in his bed almost dead from alcohol poising. They revived him, but he soon kicked everyone out of his house. Later, Angela, showed her compassionate side and constantly wrote letters to Bayardo for about seventeen years. She had loved him and showed that love when her mother was beating her and through those letters. He then showed up one day at her job and simply said " well, here I am." With a suitcase filled with clothes and then a suitcase filled with all of the letters, arranged chronologically with not a single one opened.
For years no one was able to talk about Nasar's death, most of the time, people could not intervene because it was a situation based on honor. Placida, Santiago's mother, had never forgiven herself for mixing up the bad omen with the trees in his dreams and telling him that he would be brought good health. The rest of the novella discusses and closely looks back to detailed information, like how Angela never really described how Santiago took away her virginity. Also how Cristo Bedoya was trying to find Santiago to warn him/ protect him because it looked like no one else would. He went all around looking for him, but he could not find him. Santiago had gone to his fiance, Flora Miguel's, house. There she was angry and embarrassed because she thought that even if they did not kill Santiago that he would still have to marry Angela to restore the honor. She then hoped that they did kill him, which shocked Nasar, he went to go talk to her but she had locked the door. Flora's Father, Thankfully had woken up and told Nasar about Vicario's plan to kill him, he quickly went home. On the way home Clothilde Armenta, told Santiago to run, he ran as fast as he could. At home, however, Santiago's mother had already closed the door because Divina Flor had lied and said that Santiago was already home. The Vicario twins had caught up to Santiago and started to stab him numerous times. That is when he fell to his kitchen floor, face flat.
Reaction: This novella was very interesting, the narrator had me a little bit confused because most of the events were not placed in order. I liked that idea because it created more suspense and made me think of other potential killers or key suspects. Also, the connections that were made, like the love triangles and the friendships that were always there just not too visible was good too. Also giving the innocent such a deed like this was a great idea because no one really knew if they were going to do it or not. And the separation of the people that wanted to stop the murder as opposed to the people that wanted the murder to happen was also hectic because i thought that more of his friends would be willing to tell him about the murder instead of just keeping quiet. i also thought that the maids knew what they were doing the whole time, i knew that they wanted to get back at Santiago for what he had done, especially do Divina. It wasn't because she was too young that she could not decide, she knew exactly what she was doing and she herself even admitted it earlier on in the book after her mother died. She was a key factor as well as Angela because she did not really prove that Santiago did in fact sleep with her, that story is still hidden and needs to be uncovered, because the sad part is that he died not even knowing why, but in a way he should have been punished for treating Divina the way he did, but not in that sense. The narrator as well had very little words to say to him when he found out about the truth, but i honestly think that he was trying to protect his sister, which is why he let things fall into place. Overall, the novel was very mysterious and had me guessing who the real killer might be and why everyone knew but the victim himself. I also liked how random areas were foreshadowed in the beginning and not really mentioned so it didn't seem important, but then when it came back later on in the novel it showed me that it actually was a key factor in the story. This novella had me thinking and organizing as well all the connections and how he or she knew him, why they were doing this and so on. It was a good mystery that kept me in suspense and worried for Santiago the whole time.
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