Genre 

Fiction

Narrator 

Unnamed

Climax 

The killing of Santiago Nasar

Protagonist 

Santiago Nasar

Antagonist 

Angela Vicario

Setting (time) 

1950s

Setting (place) 

A small Colombian coastal town

Point of view 

First person

Falling action 

In this book, because many different views of the death are shown before the death itself, the falling action precedes the climax of the death at the end of the novel.

Tense 

Past tense

Tone 

Surreal and repetitive; journalistic and investigative