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Santiago enjoyed a happy and loving relationship with both of his parents. Santiago’s life and personality traits paint the picture of a man who does not deserve to be murdered. “By his nature, Santiago Nasar was merry and peaceful, and openhearted” (Marquez 4). He never complained and always lived as a kind person. He even lived like this on the day of his death, and in the story he is implied as most likely the only peaceful person in town.
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BAYARDO SAN ROMAN, THE MAN WHO had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding. He arrived on
the weekly boat with some saddlebags decorated with silver that matched the buckle of his belt and the rings on his boots. (Marquez 15). -
BAYARDO SAN ROMAN, THE MAN WHO had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding. He arrived on
the weekly boat with some saddlebags decorated with silver that matched the buckle of his belt and the rings on his boots. He was around thirty years old, but they were wellconcealed, because he had the waist of P a novice bullfighter, golden eyes, and a skin slowly roasted by saltpetre. (Marquez 15) -
He was murdered and stabbed over 20 times and the brothers cut his intestines. The Vicario brothers easily caught up with him, and stabbed him to death right outside of Santiago's front door.
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The Vicario brothers could smell him in the jail cell where the mayor had locked them up until he could think of something to do with them. "No matter how much I scrubbed with soap and rags, I couldn't get rid of the smell," Pedro Vicario told me. (Marquez 46).
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"She wrote a weekly letter for over half a lifetime. 'Sometimes I couldn't think of what to say,' she told me, dying with laughter, 'but it was enough for me to know that he was getting them.' At first they were a fiancee's notes, then little messages from a secret lover, perfumed cards from a furtive sweetheart, business papers, love documentsnevertheless, he seemed insensible to her delirium; it was like writing to nobody." (Marquez 58)
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"Many knew that in the confusion of
the bash I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary
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"Well," he said, "here I am." (Marquez 56).