READING ENTRY #1

The book starts talking about that day when Santiago Nassar was killed.
That day he had 2 dreams; he was going through a grove of timber trees where a gentle
drizzle was falling. He was always dreaming about trees said his stepmother Placida
Linero 27 years later when this happened. The unpleasant day was on Monday.
He had woken up at 5.30AM with headache after the wedding of a woman called
Angela.
The story says that he was carved up like a pig an hour later. He was sleepy.
The first page describes the weather that day when he was killed by the twins.
The narrator said that he did not know anything about the crime because he was
recovering in the apostolic lap of Maria Alejandrina Cervantes.
The narrator tells that Santiago Nassar had some weapons in his cupboard.
He had inherited from his father and which he administered with very good judgment
but without much luck.
He always slept the way his father slept with the weapon hidden in the pillowcase.
The narrator tells a story when a servant girl was shaking the case to get a pillow out
and the pistol went off and he was child when this happened.
The narrator tells the last time when his mother saw him, when he was looking medicine
and she saw him with a glass of water in his hand.
That narrator said that Santiago told to her mother about the dream but she did not pay
attention to the tress. She thought that dreams about trees and birds meant good health.
Nobody recognized the omen.

READING ENTRY #2

The narrator says that when he came to the house she confused him with Santiago.
Santiago had turned 21 last week in January.
He gives a description of what Santiago was like. He was slim and pale and he had his
father’s Arabic eyelids and curly hair.
The narrator talk about a marriage of convenience and Santiago was the only child of
this marriage. He says that they never had happiness but they appeared to be.
He tells about the dead of his father and he had died suddenly 3 years before.
Santiago learned about the manipulation of firearms the love for horses and the mastery
of high flying birds of prey called it falconry.
He spoke Arabic only with his father.
He had to abandon the school after his father died. He needed to take charge of the
family but he was merry and peaceful.
He was excited about the bishop‘s arrival and he thought to get a chance to kiss the ring
in the hand of the bishop.
The narrator tells the story about Victoria Guzman who was a cook in the Santiago’s
house.
She says that she was cooking when Santiago entered to the kitchen.
This woman had a daughter called Divina Flor and she served to Santiago a mug of
mountain coffee with a shoot of cane liquor. He described the environment at the
kitchen that day when he passed away.
The narrator tells that Santiago grabbed the wrist of Divina Flor when she came to take
the empty mug from him but her mother came to Santiago and showed him a bloody
knife. She was defending her daughter.
The narrator tells something a short story about Victoria Guzman. He says that she was
still in a good shape.
She’d been seduced by Ibrahim Nassar and brought her to be a house servant when the
affection was over. Divina Flor was the daughter of a more recent mate.
She remembered Santiago Nasar’s horror when she pulled out the insides of a rabbit by
the roots and threw the steaming guts to the dogs and he told her: “Don’t be a savage
and Make believe it was a human being.”

READING ENTRY #3

Victoria Guzman needed almost twenty years to understand that a man accustomed to
killing animals could express those words when she was cooking the rabbits.
She was feeding the dogs with the insides of the other rabbits, just to embitter Santiago
Nasar’s breakfast suddenly the steamboat with the bishop was arriving on.
The narrator starts describing the house where Santiago lived and that house was built
by his father. The father had arrived with the last Arabs at the end of the civil wars.
Ibrahim Nasar had bought the place at a cheap price in order to set up an import store
that he never set up until he got married and he converted it into a house to live in. He
built a big house thinking to have a lot of children. He also built a wooden balcony that
overlooked the almond trees on the square, where Placida Linero would sit on March
afternoons to console herself for her solitude.
The narrator says that the front door remained closed except when they had festive
occasions but, it was there, and not at the back door where the men who were going to
kill him waited for Santiago Nasar and it was through there that he went out to receive
the bishop.
There was an investigating judge who came from Riohacha to make a report and an
explanation.
The narrator says that door was called as ‘‘the fatal door.’’
The only valid explanation seemed to be that of Plácida Linero, who answered: “My son
never went out the back door when he was dressed up.”
Victoria Guzman answered that neither she nor her daughter knew that they were
waiting for Santiago to kill him. Years later she admitted that both knew it when he
came into the kitchen to have his coffee. A woman who had passed to beg a bit of milk
revealed the motives and the place where they were waiting. She said that she didn’t
warn him because I thought it was drunkards’ talk but Divina Flor confessed that her
mother hadn’t said anything to Santiago Nasar because in the depths of her heart she
wanted them to kill him.
Divina Luz said that she didn’t warn him because she was a frightened child at the time,
incapable of a decision of her own, and she’d been all the more frightened when he
grabbed her by the wrist with a hand.
Divina Flor went ahead of him to open the door, trying not to have him get ahead of her
but when she took the bar down, she couldn’t avoid the hand again she said that he had
groped her body and he always did that when he caught her alone in some corner of the
house.

READING ENTRY #4

The boat had stopped tooting and the cocks began to crow, it was a great uproar because
there were so many roosters in town.
Someone who was never identified had shoved an envelope under the door with a piece
of paper warning to Santiago Nasar that they were waiting for him to kill him and the
note revealed many details of the plot. When Santiago left the house, he didn’t see it,
nor did Divina Flor or anyone else until long after the crime had been consummated.
When Santiago Nasar left his house, several people were running toward the docks,
hastened along by the bellowing of the boat.
There was one store opened that morning, a milk shop on one side of the church.
Clotilde Armenta, the proprietress of the establishment, was the first to see him in the
glow of dawn. She noticed the two brothers slept on the benches, having the knives
wrapped in newspapers.
The first time when the narrator talks about the name of the brothers, they were twins,
Pedro and Pablo Vicario. They were twenty-four years old, and they looked so much
alike that it was difficult to tell them apart. The narrator had known them since grammar
school.
That morning they were still wearing their dark wedding suits.
They hadn’t stopped drinking since the eve of the wedding on Friday but they weren’t
drunk on Monday, they looked like insomniac sleepwalkers. They’d fallen asleep after
almost three hours of waiting in Clotilde Armenta’s store.
They had barely awakened but they woke up completely when Santiago came out of his
house. They grabbed the knives wrapped in newspapers.
Clotilde asked them to leave him for later, only out of respect for the bishop.
They heard her and the twins reflected. They stopped for a moment but both followed
Santiago with their eyes as he began to cross the square.
Clotilde Armenta said that they looked at him more with pity.
At the same time the girls from the nuns’ school crossed the square as well.
Plácida Linero was right because the bishop didn’t get off his boat. There were a lot of
people at the dock, the authorities, and the schoolchildren. The people brought the crates
of well fattened rooster as a gift for the bishop and cockscomb soup his favorite dish.
In those days this type of boat was legendary paddle-wheelers that burned wood were
on the point of disappearing. But this one was new, beside the captain’s cabin, was the
bishop in his white cassock and with his retinue of Spaniards.
The first time when the narrator talks about Margot his sister.
READING ENTRY #5

The bishop made the sign of the Holy Cross and then he left.
Santiago was disappointed because he had contributed a lot to the arrival of the bishop
with much solicitude of the father Carmen Amador.
Margot was with him on the pier and she found him in a good mood.
Cristo Bedoya, who was with them too. He’d been with Santiago Nasar and the narrator
until before four; he hadn’t gone to sleep at his parents’ house, but stayed chatting at his
grandparents’ house.
He obtained a lot of information about all the things that were used at the wedding: the
food, the liquor, and how many people enjoyed the evening, as there had never been a
wedding like that before.
Santiago said that's how his marriage would be and the Life will be too short for people
to tell about it.
Margot thought about the good fortune of Flora Miguel, the girlfriend of Santiago and
she was going to get marry with him in Christmas that year.
Margot tells her brother, the narrator, that Santiago was a good match.
That day, Margot invited him to breakfast at her house because her mother used to make
certain dishes that he liked and Santiago Nasar accepted with enthusiasm.
He told Margot he would catch up because he had forgotten his watch and went with
Cristo Bedoya, telling her he would return soon. She insisted that he go with her
because breakfast was ready. After everything happened, Cristo Bedoya thought Margot
already knew that someone wanted to kill him, so she wanted to take him home quickly.
But she didn't know anything.
He convinced her and told her to go ahead because he had to get ready to go to the
Divine face soon. He said goodbye to her, and that was the last time she saw him.
Many people knew that they were going to kill him. But later they thought the danger
had passed. They thought it was all a joke. People like Colonel Lazaro Aponte, who was
the mayor of the town 11 years ago, and Father Carmen Amador never imagined that
would happen. No one even wondered whether Santiago Nasar had been warned,
because it seemed impossible to all that he hadn’t.
Margot said that if she had known, she would have done everything possible to take him
home and save him.
She says it was even stranger that her mother didn't know, as she found out about
everything that happened in the town even without leaving the house.

READING ENTRY #6
In this part, the narrator describes what his house was like.
He continues recounting everything people had done for the father, who hadn't even
stepped out of the boat.
She realized that Angela Vicario, the woman who had been married, had been returned
to her parents' house because her husband discovered she was not a virgin.
But she never understood why Santiago had been involved in that matter.
She only realized that the brothers wanted to kill him and ran to tell her mother.
The narrator and Margot’s mother had prepared a special place for Santiago who was
going to come to eat but when she listened to her daughter she immediately ran to the
town to see what was happening because Santiago, the day he was baptized, she was his
godmother but she also had some relationship with the Vicario family.
The little Jaime, who was around 7 years old, Margot’s brother was sent after his
mother to accompany her because she had rushed out like crazy. The boy told Margot
that his mother was saying strange things as she walked. She was going along talking to
herself.
He only remembers that there was a lot of noise, as if someone's wedding was being
celebrated again, or as if there was a special event. She ran quickly until someone called
her by her name, Luisa Santiago, and told her that Santiago had been killed.

READING ENTRY #7

The narrator starts talking about Bayardo San Roman.

He had come for the first time to the town in August of the year before: six months
before the wedding.
The narrator describes how he was and how he dressed. He was an imposing man
admired by all. He calls him a man who could do everything and had all the resources to
do whatever he wanted. He was around 30 years old.
The first time when the narrator mentioned to Magdalena Oliver who had come with
him on the boat.
The narrator tells that he knew many things because his mother used to write letter for
him.
The narrator's mother told him that he had said he was going from town to town looking
for someone to marry.
He said that he was a track engineer and spoke of the urgency for building a railroad.
The narrator's mother blessed Bayardo in a letter because everyone praised him, but
when she met him in person, she got scared and said he reminded her of the devil.
The narrator says he met him when he arrived for the Christmas season and noticed him
as a sad person at that time, and he was engaged to Angela Vicario.
The story tells how Bayardo met Angela and her mother one day when he was sitting
outside the bachelor boardinghouse where he lived.

READING ENTRY #8
The story begins with how Angela met Bayardo. Some people say it was during the
October festivities when she was in charge of singing the raffles.
He arrived at the fair and went straight to where the raffles were being held and asked
about the price of a music box with mother-of-pearl inlays.
Angela responded that it was not for sale; it was for the raffle.
Then, at the moment of the raffle, Angela was amazed because Bayardo had bought all
the tickets to win. At that moment, she was impressed because he had done that to get
her attention, but she didn't like arrogant people.
After all that, he sent Angela the music box wrapped in gift paper.
Her brothers took the box and went to return it to its owner.
Angela Vicario was the youngest daughter of a family of scant resources.
The narrator mentioned the Angela’s parents. Poncio Vicario was a poor man’s
goldsmith, and he’d lost his sight from doing so much work and Purísima del Carmen,
her mother, had been a schoolteacher until she married forever.
Angela had two oldest daughters who had married very late. In addition to the twins,
they had a middle daughter, who had died of nighttime fevers.
The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married. The
girls were so much prepared because they had learned many things for the day they
would get married.
The only thing that their mother reproached them for was the custom of combing their
hair before sleeping and she said: “Girls don’t comb your hair at night; you’ll slow
down seafarers.”
Angela Vicario was the prettiest of the four.
The narrator says that he saw her year after year during his Christmas vacations, and
every time she seemed more destitute in the window of her house, where she would sit
in the afternoon making cloth flowers and sing.

READING ENTRY #9

The family was thrilled with Angela's engagement and they forced her to marry
Bayardo, a man she hardly knew.
No one knew about that man's past or who he was. Many people said many things
about him. Then Pura Vicario put a condition before the marriage.
He had to identify himself and say who he really was. So what Bayardo did was to call
his family, who arrived in the town causing a scandal as they were a recognized and
famous family for their titles and attributes.
The mother Alberta Simonds, two provocative daughters, and the father Petronio San
Roman who had held a very famous title arrived.
Angela Vicario didn’t want to marry him she said that he seemed too much of a man for
her. Their marriage lasted only 4 months.
Angela tells to the narrator that one night he asked her what house she liked best.
She answered, without knowing why, that the prettiest house in town was the farmhouse
belonging to the widower Xius.
That night Bayardo San Román went to the social club and sat down at the widower
Xius’s table to play a game of dominoes and told him that he wanted to buy his house
but the widower said no.
Bayardo insisted many times to buy the widower's house until one day he convinced
him and offered a large sum of money.

Despues decidio decirlo a Placida Linero pero se le olvido. El narrador dice que estaban
muy ocupados esperando el obispo y en el momento del crimen solo ordeno que tocaran
a fuego. Luis Enrique entro por la cocina y se durmió en el retrete y su hermano Jaime
lo encontró dormido ni la hermana la Monja pudo despertarlo, hasta que su hermana
Margot lo pudo llevar a la cama. La monja lo despertó rápido diciendo mataron a
Santiago Nassar. EL padre Carmen amador tuvo que hacer la autopsia porque no había
quien la hiciera. El coronel Aponte hablo con alguien grande hasta que mandaran un
juez instructor. El alcalde no sabia como hacer las cosas.
Cristo Bedoya estudiaba medicina y estuvo en la autopsia.
El coronel le dijo al padre amador que practicara la autopsia porque había estudiado
medicina antes de tomar el habito.
En la autopsia la hicieron en el local de la escuela publica con la ayuda del boticario y
un estudiante de medicina de primer año.
EL informe del padre se sumo como una pieza útil.
Dicen que parecía un estigma de un crucificado.
En los resultados de la autopsia descubrieron que Santiago tenia su cerebro muy
desarrollado y tenia un problema en el hígado.
Se le hicieron 7 heridas mortales que lo desangraron y desfiguraron su rostro.
EL cuerpo estaba apunto de desbaratarse antes de meterlo a el ataúd.
Se enterro de prisa al amanecer porque se estaba descomponiendo.
EL narrador se fue donde Alejandrina Cervantes donde se estaban tiñendo las mujeres
sus ropas. Alejandrina estaba desnuda comiendo un gran banquete.El se acostó a su lado
y lloraban juntos el asesinato de Santiago.
Soñe que miraba una mujer con una niña en brazos y la mujer le dijo un mensaje a el.
Luego la mujer comenzó a quitarla la camisa y de pronto se detuvo y dijo que no podía
porque el narrador olia a Santiago.
Los hermanos los metieron en el calabozo esperando ver que hacían con ellos.
Vivian soñando el dia que asesinaron a Santiago.
La lucidez les recordaba el asesinato que habían cometido.
Dicen que el lugar donde los tenían eran bien equipado y había sido construido por el
coronel Aponte.
Ellos se sentían orgullosos de haber cumplido con su objetivo pero ellos no podían
soportar el olor a la sangre de Santiago.
Los gemelos temian represalias de la gente de afuera puesto que los árabes estaban
enojados con los que había sucedido.
Los árabes eran personas buenas y civilizadas que cultivaban el campo y tenían
animales. Nadie imagino represalias de Placida Linero.
EL coronel Aponte visito a los árabes los cuales tenían insignias de duelo.
A los gemelos les dieron una infusión hasta que pudieron dormirse y llevo su madre
Vicaria hasta las 3 de la mañana del martes cuando el alcalde la llevo a despedirse de
ellos.