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What views of women in the village contribute to Angela's decisions, Pura’s actions, and the brothers’ response?

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What views of women in the village contribute to Angela's decisions, Pura’s actions, and the brothers’ response?

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What does it mean to be “a man” in this village? In Bayardo’s mind? How does this perception of what it means to be a man contribute to Bayardo’s expectations of Angela and his response to his discovery about Angela?

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What does it mean to be “a man” in this village? In Bayardo’s mind? How does this perception of what it means to be a man contribute to Bayardo’s expectations of Angela and his response to his discovery about Angela?

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What is the church’s view of women/honor killing? Look at Father Amador’s reaction.

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What is the church’s view of women/honor killing? Look at Father Amador’s reaction.

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What is the law’s view of honor killing? Look at information on the court case and the trial.

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What is the law’s view of honor killing? Look at information on the court case and the trial.

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What role does money, or lack thereof, play in the Vicario brothers’ decision to kill Santiago and not defend Angela?

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What role does money, or lack thereof, play in the Vicario brothers’ decision to kill Santiago and not defend Angela?

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Women are expected to be pure and devoted to their husbands.  One quote shows how devoted some women were due to high societal expectations.  It says, “She devoted herself with such spirit of sacrifice to the care of her husband and the rearing of her children that at times one forgot she still existed “ (pg.31)

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The church is not fine with, but not strict against honor killing.  The book says,  "We killed him openly,' Pedro Vicario said, "but we're innocent." "Perhaps before God," Father Amador said." (pg.49)

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Honor killing is not okay, but it reduces sentences. The Vicario brothers were released after a mere 3 years for their honor killing.

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Nasar's murder was done out of honor, not economic status. Had Nasar not affected their sisters honor he would still be alive.

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To be a man, you need to be the house provider, honorable, and powerful. Men were not expected to be pure until marriage like women.

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A man is the head of the household. The one who demands respect and who is honorable. Bayardo holds him self to a high standard and has endless resources. As soon as he found out the women he was about to marry didn't live up to his expectations he returned her to her mother. "Then he kissed Pura Vicario on the cheek and spoke to her in a very deep, dejected voice..."(46). In the end she did not live up to his expectations so she wasn't worth being married.

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The law doesn't support honor killings.Yet due to the tightly knit community and their deep traditions the council allows loopholes or ways around to make honor killing punishments less surveir.

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the church doesnt specifically say if they do or not but they let it happen passively and people knew but let it.

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to be a man in his mind is that a man needs money, respect and the spiritual feeling. He also feels that the man should be wholesome. "People like him a lot, she told me,because he's honest and has a good heart..." (27) - Max Flores

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"I would have been happy even if he hadn't come, but never if he abandoned me dressed up." (41). This quote expresses the ideology of the time and place. That would have been acceptable but leaving her there would have been disrespectful.

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The law views honor killings to be unacceptable, however, the fact Pablo Vicario only had three years in jail (63). They say they dont accept it but in the cultural roots of the place, it is seen as honorable and not frown upon.

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“And he asked him jokingly why they had to kill Santiago Nasar since there were so many other rich people who deserved dying first” (pg.53). They believed that the social and class status can defend people and that no one would oppose the class status.

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The Vicario family were poor so the townspeople thought that when they found out that Vicario brothers were going to kill Santiago Nasar, they thought that other rich people deserved to die first. “And he asked him jokingly why they had to kill Santiago Nasar since there were so many other rich people who deserved dying first” (pg.53).