I was so excited to begin Pedro Páramo this week. I decided to amend my contract and add it as a text last minute and I’m so glad I did. I knew I was in for a treat when the librarian at Vancouver Public Library in Kits stopped me to gush over the book as […]
Right at the start of the novel I found myself enjoying Rulfo’s style of storytelling. The balance between descriptive imagery and concise narration eased my way in to reading this novel. It is clear to the reader that Juan is completing his deceased m…
Right at the start of the novel I found myself enjoying Rulfo’s style of storytelling. The balance between descriptive imagery and concise narration eased my way in to reading this novel. It is clear to the reader that Juan is completing his deceased m…
Going into this weeks lecture, I was somewhat fascinated and disturbed by Juan Rulfo’s description of Comala and the Mexican rural countryside that Juan Preciado moves through during his search for his supposed father Pedro Paramo. I went into the text having listened to Professor Jon’s lecture and his introduction for the ghostly and almost […]
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Like a good chunk of my peers, I find myself in agreeance that this week’s read, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, was a more enjoyable read because I quite enjoy stories that run along the themes of memory, family, life, and death itself. Even though the book wasn’t exactly in chronological order, I still found […]
Hi everyone! I hope everyone is surviving their midterms! I have to say I rather enjoyed this book. I am a big believer in ghosts, spirits, and honestly anything supernatural. That being said, I haven’t read or watched many interpretations of gho…
Hi everyone! I hope everyone is surviving their midterms! I have to say I rather enjoyed this book. I am a big believer in ghosts, spirits, and honestly anything supernatural. That being said, I haven’t read or watched many interpretations of gho…
Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Parámo employed a non-linear storytelling structure that weaves together past and present timelines of Comala, as seen from the perspectives of various characters, predominantly Juan and Pedro. Though the structure can be perplexing, the theme of timelessness was one aspect that I appreciated about the book, which I believe serves to emphasize […]
This weeks reading, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo is a fragmented story that begins with a young man seeking out his estranged father in a town called Comala to fulfil his mother’s dying request. As the novel progresses the young man dies and the tale focusses on the father, Pedro Páramo, and how he caused the …
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Ghosts were everywhere in the town of this tale. When thinking of a ghost, my brain imagines a cartoon person who’s transparent, visibly supernatural, and floats through walls – haunting different rooms. There are some similarities here to this concept…
