In this passage, Angela Vicario tells her brothers that Santiago Nasar was the person who violated her before her wedding. The passage presents the revelation of Nasar's name almost as if it causes Angela's resurrection from the dead.
At the beginning of the passage, Angela is badly beaten, and she is lying on the couch. She later says that "the drowsiness of death had finally been lifted from me," an image that creates the idea that she has reached or almost reached the point of death and is then reborn when she gives her brothers Nasar's name.
To find the name, she "looked for it in the shadows," conveying the image of her searching the darkness of her own soul to find a name that will satisfy her incensed brothers. Using metaphorical language, Angela's production of Nasar's name is compared to a "well-aimed dart," conveying the idea that she knows that Nasar's name will satisfy her brothers and also inflict damage on Nasar. However, she is also a victim, like...
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