![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, the judge determines that the Vicario brothers don't want to murder Santiago-they even tell Indalecio Pardo, a good friend of Santiago Nasar's, about their plan to kill him when Clotilde Armenta tells him to warn Santiago, Pedro tells him, "Don't bother. He concludes that Santiago Nasar's behavior during the morning of his death was "overwhelming proof of his innocence" and that Angela's impassivity in naming him as her perpetrator suggested the she was lying. This investigating magistrate-who interprets the events of this novel much like a reader or a critic himself-clearly sides with many of the conclusions that Garcia Marquez has already invited us to accept. It serves rather to place these events in a larger, literary context, mostly through the testimony of the visiting judge. This chapter does not contain much that is new-we've already seen these events before, several times. Santiago stumbles into the house through the back door "that had been open since six" and dies in the kitchen. Just then, a group of angry Arab immigrants brandishing guns chase the twins to the church. The twins stab him repeatedly, including a horizontal slash across his stomach that releases his viscera. Santiago, shut out of his own house seconds too late, is killed. Meanwhile, 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. The twins see him and walk after him Clotilde Armenta screams for Santiago to run. Santiago, however, leaves without the rifle, afraid and baffled-unable even to find his own house. Santiago is totally confused, and thus clearly innocent, so Nahir tells him to hide in their house or take a rifle for protection. Santiago has no idea what caused her outburst and calls after her, rousing the whole family, at which point Flora's father, Nahir Miguel, informs him of the plot. When Santiago arrives at her house, his fiancée Flora, who knew of the plot, furiously returns his love letters to her, saying, "Here you are, and I hope they kill you!" She later explains that she didn't believe they would really kill Santiago but thought they would force him to marry Angela. Cristo meanwhile goes to the narrator's house, where he assumes Santiago must have gone, only to hear distant shouting and learn that he was too late. Instead the mayor stops by the social club to check on a dominoes date. He tells Colonel Aponte, who swears that he sent the twins home but agrees to take care of the matter again. Cristo goes to Santiago's house, where he tells Victoria of the plot (she already knows) when he cannot find Santiago he leaves without telling Placida, for want of frightening her.īack in the square, Pedro Vicario calls to Cristo to warn Santiago but Cristo is still unable to find his friend. Somehow, no one has seen him enter his fiancée's home off the square. ![]() The crowd parts for them, not wanting to touch a man who will soon die.Īfter Cristo and Santiago part, Yamil Shaium, an Arab who had immigrated with Santiago Nasar's father, warns Cristo of the plot, but Cristo is unable to find Santiago again. On the morning, Santiago walks with Cristo Bedoya, who notices strange looks among the crowd but is not yet aware of the plan. Indalecio loses the nerve to warn Santiago when he sees him. Shifting to the murder day, we learn that the twins tell Santiago's good friend Indalecio Pardo, about their plan. The magistrate, who is unnamed, notes in the margins of the case that "he never thought it legitimate that life should make use of so many coincidences forbidden literature." He is further alarmed at "not having found a single clue, not even the most improbable, that Santiago Nasar had been the cause of the wrong." The narrator shifts to twelve days after the murder, when the investigating magistrate comes to town. For instance, while Placida is able to explain why she locked the main door (Divina swore she'd seen Santiago enter and go upstairs), she can't forgive herself for failing to notice the omens in Santiago's dreams. They become obsessed with the number of coincidences that aligned in order to make the murder possible some are never able to forgive themselves for their part in the murder. For years after, no one in town can discuss anything but the murder. ![]()
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