How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"He had that green color of dreams," Pura Vicario told my mother. Angela Vicario was in the shadows, so she saw only her when Bayardo San Roman grabbed her by the arm and brought her into the light. Her satin dress was in shreds and she was wrapped in a towel up to the waist. Pura Vicario thought they'd gone off the road in the car and were lying dead at the bottom of the ravine. "Holy Mother of God," she said in terror. "Answer me if you're still of this world." (2.51)
This isn't the only time that somebody besides Santiago is assumed to be dead. Is Pura totally mistaken? Angela did say that she felt like she had died after her secret was revealed.
Quote #5
The news had been so well spread by then that Hortensia Baute opened her door precisely as they were passing her house, and she was the first to weep for Santiago Nasar. "I thought they'd already killed him," she told me, "because I saw the knives in the light from the street lamp and it looked to me like they were dripping blood." (3.41)
It's moments like this that make us sad for Santiago. Everyone in the town has already given up on him, as if he were already dead. That's kind of like staring at a person drowning and not making a move to help because you figure they're going to die anyway. Not if you throw them a life jacket, they're not!