Quite cunningly, Victoria uses her role as the cook
in order to exact revenge directly on Santiago and indirectly on his father
. She had so much repressed rage the morning of the crime that she went on feeding the dogs with the insides of the other rabbits, just to embitter Santiago Nasar's breakfast.
WHO warned Santiago Nasar?
Nahir Miguel
The father of
Flora Miguel. He is the one who warns Santiago that the Vicario brothers are waiting to kill him.
Why did Victoria Guzman not warn Santiago?
What's interesting is that Victoria Guzmán is the only person who has a completely understandable and transparent motive for her actions. She hates Santiago because he wants to have sex with her daughter. She didn't warn him
because she wanted him to die
.
Where is Santiago killed?
When he left Flora Miguel's house, Santiago was very confused. Clothilde Armenta yelled at him to run, and he ran the fifty yards to his front door. The Vicario brothers easily caught up with him, and stabbed him to death
right outside of Santiago's front door
.
Why does Angela marry Bayardo?
He says that her “penury of spirit had been aggravated by the years,” so much so that when people discovered that Bayardo San Roman wanted to marry her, they thought it was an outsider's plan. Angela says she did not wish to marry
him because he seemed like too much of a man for her
.
Did Santiago take Angela's virginity?
Moreover, after Santiago Nasar's death, Angelo Vicario accused Santiago Nasar for taking her virginity but failed to tell the investigating magistrate either how or where the crime was committed. According to the story,
there is no evidence to conclude that Angela Vicario chose Santiago Nasar as her scapegoat
.
Who is responsible for Santiago's death?
In Chronicle of a Death Foretold, several characters can be considered responsible for Santiago Nasar's death.
Angela Vicario's twin brothers, Pedro and Pablo
, are literally responsible for his death, as they stab and disembowel him. Nasar also can be considered responsible for his own tragic demise.
Did the bishop get off the boat?
The arrival of the bishop, for example, is an event that was seen as potentially very significant in the novel, but turns out not to be especially noteworthy at all, since
the bishop never steps off the boat
.
Why does Placida Linero Santiago's mother bolt the front door of the house?
Placida Linero bolts the front door of her house out of
fear for her son
. Victoria had finally told Placida about the murder plot; Placida asks Divina if her son is at home, and when Divina swears that he is, she locks the door, seeing the Vicario brothers running at the house with their knives out.
Why do Vicario twins believe they are innocent?
“Before God and before men,” Pablo Vicario said. “It was a matter of honor.” Page 49. This quote also shows how the brothers believe because they killed Santiago for the honor of her sister, they are consisted innocent. They believe they are innocent
because they are restoring their sisters honor and clear her name
.
What did Santiago inherit from his mother?
Santiago is slim and pale, with Arab eyes and curly hair. He is the only child of a marriage of convenience. He inherited
his sixth sense
from his mother. From his father, Ibrahim Nasar, he learned his love of firearms, horses, and falconry, as well as the qualities of valor and prudence.
Why does Angela's mother beat her?
Angela Vicario protested to her parents that she did not love Bayardo, but her mother dismissed that idea, telling her that love could be learned. … Because she was not a
virgin when she married
, not only is Angela abandoned by her husband, but she is beaten by her mother.
Why didn't widower Xius sell Bayardo his home?
Xius did not actually want to sell his home
because to him it represented the happiness he shared for thirty years with his late wife
; however, he could not refuse Bayardo's offer of an astronomical sum of money. The anecdote serves to illustrate the theme that love is worth more than money.
How did Bayordo know it was Angela's birthday?
The next time Bayardo sees her, she is singing out the numbers to a raffle at a town event. He buys all of the raffle tickets and wins a music box inlaid with mother-of-pearl, which he then has delivered to her house as a gift.
She never discovers how he found out
it was her birthday.
Why did Angela say Santiago's name?
The most current version, perhaps because it was the most perverse, was that
Angela Vicario was protecting someone who really loved her and she had chosen
Santiago Nasar's name because she thought her brothers would never dare go up against him.
Is Angela Vicario the most powerful or the least powerful woman in the novel?
Angela Vicario is
arguably the most powerful character in the novel
, as she is the one who tells her brothers that it was Santiago who took her virginity, which consequently sets the entire plot of the story in motion.
