Juan Rulfo

conversation between Juan and his mother, Dolores, where she says “‘make him pay, son, for all those years that he put us out of his mind’”(3) referring to his father, Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo is referencing the Cry of Dolores, where Father Miguel Hidalgo called the citizens of Dolores, Mexico to take up arms against the ruling Spanish upper class and get revenge for the hundreds of years of Indian oppression and exploitation. In the same way that the Citizens of Dolores were called, Juan is called by his

of the question and the sun itself is creating the hardship for the character. Similarly, Juan Rulfo uses the setting of his novel, Pedro Páramo, in order to influence the tone, which ultimately leads to his purpose of writing the novel. Comala, the

and how it affected his life from making him commit crimes to making him swing his mood with all the sudden mood changes the wave suffer due to all the external factor that could affect her. Another short story is “It’s Because We’re So Poor” by Juan Rulfo that focuses on the tragedy a family is living due to the fact that, because of the excessive rain and rivers flooding, they may lose the daughter’s cow, this meaning that the only

In the novela Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo uses religion as a symbol that contradicts with the characters lack of morals and lack of faith. The town people of Comala are obsessed with the thought of afterlife, pray and attending church regularly, but these habits that have lost their true meaning. Rulfo uses these symbolic activities to make the characters nihilistic and initialism natures more apparent. Father Renteria plays the God like figure, being that he is the only priest in the novel allowing

To what extent does Juan Rulfo criticise modern Catholicism in Pedro Paramo? Throughout the novel, Pedro Paramo, the author Juan Rulfo uses imagery, conflict, foreshadowing and juxtaposition to comment on the corruption of organized religion in the world, particularly the Catholic Church. The small village where the novel is set, has become a prison for the souls who remain and the local Priest abuses his position of authority to decide who will be blessed and be released. The author juxtaposes

Are we held back by our memories? In his novel Pedro Parámo, Juan Rulfo questions the voices that fill the town, the voices that represent old souls’ past memories. Rulfo’s conception of our past is that it haunts us, forcing the characters to revisit their own pasts in order to find meaning and forgiveness. Specifically, the story explores the nature of memory and the past by recounting the stories of all the inhabitants who have died in the town Comála. Everyone in the town is dead. The characters

Comala. The author of Pedro Paramo is Juan Rulfo, he was born in Sayula, Mexico. His book collections such as The Burning Plain (1953) and the book Pedro Paramo made him a big literary figure. In Pedro Paramo, Juan is sent on a journey to find his father (Pedro which who the book is written after) who sent his mom away because she kept asking continually to see her sister. Juan gets to Comala where he meets Abundio (the Mule driver) who sends him to Dorotea. Juan ends up dying of fear from the voices

was soon changed due to finding gold and an entitlement over the natives. The natives were manipulated and forced to become believers of Christianity and such a tragedy is significant because this event had started the foundation of Christianity. Juan Rulfo, author of the novel, “Pedro Paramo,” portrays the Catholic Church to be built on the weak foundation of immoral, faithless leaders and community

Realism is Achieved and What it Portrays in Juan Rulfo’s Novel: Pedro Paramo The idea that most do not understand situations outside of linear time and space is readily apparent through Immanuel Kant’s idea that “space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.” With this idea in mind, Juan Rulfo’s novel, Pedro Paramo, is purposely constructed in complete defiance of linear time and space. Rulfo aimed to create a sense of connectedness between

since the Spanish introduced the religion to the Americas in the early 1500s. Juan Rulfo, the author of Pedro Paramo, incorporates many ideas that are from the Catholic Church into his novel. Some of those ideas include: the irony of the Catholic Church at that time in Mexico through Father Renteria, the presence of God in Comala that is obscured by Pedro, and Comala as a representation of purgatory. In Pedro Paramo, Rulfo incorporates a certain character to show the corruption of the Catholic Church