Journal Assignment (Pg. 1 – 54)
"Pedro Vicario, the more forceful of the brothers, picked her up by the waist and sat her on the dining room table.
'All right, girl,' he said to her, trembling with rage, 'tell us who it was.'
She only took the time necessary to say the name. She looked for it in the shadows, she found it at first sight among the many, many easily confused names from this world and the other, and she nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
Santiago Nasar,' she said. (47)
This passage occurs at the end of the second chapter when Angela Vicario had just been brought back by Bayardo Roman because he had found out that she wasn’t a virgin. In this passage, Angela’s brother asks the name of the man she had lost her virginity to and she blurts out the name of the brothers’ best friend: Santiago Nasar.