Chronicle of a Death Foretold

In the novel,"Chronicle of a Death Foretold", Angela's virginity and honor become central to the story. To protect her honor, the Vicario twins, Angela's brothers, plan to kill Santiago the man who Angela said took her virginity. Knowing that Santiago is going to be killed, the whole town does nothing to stop the twins. A quote that stuck out to me was on page 61, " So he put the knife in his hand and dragged him off almost by force in search of their lost sister's honor. 'There's no way out of this,' he told him. 'It's as if it had already happened." I believe this quote shows that it was, in a sense, mandatory for the Vicario brothers to kill Santiago. Honor was important to this family and to the society. A couple of lines later, Pablo's fiancee states that if he had never killed Santiago she would not have married him. In this society, honor must be upheld and in order to uphold it, it becomes acceptable to kill a person. .;\