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"I could've buttered him and eaten him alive"

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"but she hadn't noticed any ominous augury in those two dreams of her son's, or in the other dreams of trees he'd described to her on the mornings preceding his death."

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Start of chapter two
There's very descriptive block about Bayardo's arrival.

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"no one could explain to me how poor Santiago Nasar ended up being involved in such a mix-up."
The fact that no one could explain and that Santiago is referred as poor, juxtaposes the entirety of the text before this quote.

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"Santiago Nasar put on a shirt and pants of white linen,"
- The white color of the linen symbolizes Santiago's innocence and purity. Also, his clothing foreshadows his death.

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"He took leave of [Margot] with the same wave with which he'd said good-bye to his mother to"
- The only 2 people who favored him and he interacts with a wave of good-bye.

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It is a genre of literature that depicts the real world as having an undercurrent of magic or fantasy.

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The book Chronicle of a Death Foretold is not written in chronological order, not only does it jump between the present and the past, it also jumps to different parts of the past. (transition from chapter 1 to 2)
- Placida Linero, his mother, told me twenty-seven years later, recalling the details of that distressing Monday.

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"But she couldn't avoid a wave of fright as she remembered Santiago Nasar's horror when she pulled out the insides of a rabbit by the roots and threw the streaming guts to the dog."

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"Predestined" death of Santiago Nasar

Even though people could have told Santiago about his death, they ignored or were not willing to tell.

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"He's swimming in gold"

"Bayardo San Roman not only was capable of doing everything, and doing it quite well, but also had access to endless resources."

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Engineer
Telegrapher
Doctor
Good drinker
Mediator of fights
Enemy of cardsharps
Swimmer

Summary: Bro is perfect

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"I didn't warn him because I thought it was drunkards' talk," she told me.

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- "ON THE DAY THEY WERE GOING TO KILL him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on."
- "But the most agreed that the weather was funereal, with a cloudy, low sky and the thick smell of still waters, and that at the moment of the misfortune a thin drizzle was falling like the one Santiago Nasar had seen in his dream grove."
- Chapter 2 - She [Magdalena Oliver] wasn't the only who thought so, nor was she the last to realise that Bayardo San Roman was not a man to be known at first sight.

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Chapter 1 - No one could understand such fatal coincidences. The investigating judge who came from Riohacha must have sensed them without daring to admit it, for his impulse to give them a rational explanation was obvious in his report. The door to the square was cited several times with a dime-novel title: "The Fatal Door."

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Nevertheless, Divina Flor confessed to me on a later visit ... that the latter hadn't said anything to Santiago Nasar because in depths of her heart she wanted them [Pablo and Pedro Vicario] to kill him.

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"She had a well-earned reputation as an accurate interpreter of other people's dreams, provided they were told her before eating, but she hadn't noticed any ominous augury in those two dreams of her son's, or in the other dreams of trees he'd described to her on the mornings preceding his death."
-  This shows that they accept Placida has the ability to interpret people's dreams as fact and something to happen in reality.

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"He won't even get off the boat," she told him. "He'll give an obligatory blessing, as always, and go back the way he came. He hates this town."

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- "He [Bayardo San Roman] looked like a fairy."
- "But the square, covered with paving stones up to the front steps of the church, where the bandstand was, looked like a trash heap, with empty bottles and all manner of debris from the public festivities."
- "He already looked like a ghost,"
- "they weren't drunk at the end of three days, but they looked, rather, like insomniac sleepwalkers."

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My mother told me about it in a letter, and at the end she made a comment that was very much like her: "It also seems that he's swimming in gold."

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"People like him a lot... because he's honest and has a good heart"