Essays on Pedro Paramo

Pedro Páramo Berger Journal #3 As a reoccurring image, idea, or object, motifs construct symbolism in a story; they contribute to how readers interpret, react to, and comprehend the text at hand (Boorman). Throughout the novel Pedro Páramo, Rulfo integrates the motifs of water and sound in order to accentuate the Mexican culture’s cyclical nature of life and death. The presence of water and sound represent the lively past of the town Comala, whereas the lack of these two images…

Comala’s Cycle Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo is remarkable for its nonlinear narrative. The novel is characterized by its multiple characters whose voices constantly switch back and forth, flashbacks, and shifts in time that continually disrupt the linearity of the narrative. When the narrator Juan Preciado arrives at the town of Comala in the hope of meeting his father, Pedro Paramo, he is bombarded by the memories of the town that are shared with the remaining townspeople, the living, and the…

Pedro Paramo: The Illusive Man Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Paramo takes place in Comala were a man name Juan Preciado visits the town in hopes of finding Pedro, his rich father. He soon learns from the ghost residents that Comala, once a prospering land full of dreams, is now a dried up land where people’s illusions are as dead as the people there. As the residents begin to tell Juan the story of Comala we begin to see that as…