<P> Only after Bayardo returned her did Angela fall in love with him . After she moves away from the town with her family, Angela writes him a letter each day for seventeen years . At the end of seventeen years, San Roman returns to her, carrying all of her letters in bundles, all unopened . </P> <P> The murder of Santiago Nasar is described . His friend Cristo Bedoya had frantically looked for Santiago on the morning of the murder to warn him of the plan, but Cristo Bedoya failed to find Santiago, who was actually at his fiancée Flora Miguel's house . When Flora Miguel's father finds out, he warns Santiago minutes before the twins reach Santiago . Santiago becomes disoriented from the news and starts to run home . His mother, who is finally told, believes he is inside the house and, therefore, bars the front door to which Santiago is running while being chased by the Vicario brothers . He is repeatedly stabbed as he attempts to enter his home, over twenty times total with seven fatal wounds, as they discovered in an ill - performed autopsy performed by the priest . The murder is brutal as Santiago carries his own entrails and enters the back door of his home . He collapses in his kitchen and dies . </P> <P> The novella was based on real - life events that occurred to a family that García Márquez knew . García Márquez heard the story of a young couple that got married in Sucre and, on the day following their wedding, the groom rejected the bride due to her lack of virginity . The bride was determined to have had relations with her former boyfriend, who was consequently pursued and murdered by the bride's two brothers in order to avenge the family's honor . Though many publications speculated that García Márquez had witnessed the murder firsthand, the writer was in fact not present during the events, which took place in Sucre in 1951 . </P> <P> There are a few key differences in the action of the story and what took place in reality . For one, in the novella, Santiago Nasar did not have a prior relationship with Ángela Vicario before her wedding, whereas in real life, the bride was deflowered by her former boyfriend . Additionally, García Márquez chose to make the two assassins in the novella twins, Pablo and Pedro Vicario . In real life, they were simply brothers . Lastly, in the book, there is a reconciliation between Ángela and the groom who rejects her, Bayardo San Roman . In real life, there was no such reconciliation . </P>

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