Pedro Paramo: In-depth analysis of the novel through the image of protagonist.
What happens to a person who gave a vow to his mother that he would find person he had never met in his life? What if this person is his father? How does a hero react when he finds out about the uncountable number of bastards and a legal child of his father? How does the “trip to his legacy” change him? How does he react when he finds out that his father is a pure devil? To make matters worse, what if the town of his trip is full of mystery? What does he do when he understands the people who speak to him do not possess physical body, but rather mere ghosts of their past lives? What are the other sins of his father that the ghosts are trying to whisper to him?
That is what exactly portrayed in Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Paramo which was published in 1955. The novel is considered to be the masterpiece in the Latin American Literature. Juan Rulfo was one of the first writers who broke up from traditional realist genre which was quite dominant until the midst of 20th century in Latin American Literature. Even though the novel employs different techniques and devices for narrative, it was criticized for being little …show more content…
Just what’s ours. What he should have given me but never did… Make him pay, son, for all those years he put us out of his mind.”(p.3). In other words, protagonist’s mother Dolorita asks Juan Preciado to get his vengeance upon his father Pedro Paramo who never cared about them. As we later find out, his neglecting duties as an exemplary husband and father is not the only factor that contributed to Dolorita’s vehement hatred of Pedro. On his way to Comala, Juan Preciado meets Abundio who reveals to him that he is not the only son of Pedro Paramo. The protagonist finds out that are numerous bastards left after his father because he raped a new girl every
What happens to a person who gave a vow to his mother that he would find person he had never met in his life? What if this person is his father? How does a hero react when he finds out about the uncountable number of bastards and a legal child of his father? How does the “trip to his legacy” change him? How does he react when he finds out that his father is a pure devil? To make matters worse, what if the town of his trip is full of mystery? What does he do when he understands the people who speak to him do not possess physical body, but rather mere ghosts of their past lives? What are the other sins of his father that the ghosts are trying to whisper to him?
That is what exactly portrayed in Mexican writer Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Paramo which was published in 1955. The novel is considered to be the masterpiece in the Latin American Literature. Juan Rulfo was one of the first writers who broke up from traditional realist genre which was quite dominant until the midst of 20th century in Latin American Literature. Even though the novel employs different techniques and devices for narrative, it was criticized for being little …show more content…
Just what’s ours. What he should have given me but never did… Make him pay, son, for all those years he put us out of his mind.”(p.3). In other words, protagonist’s mother Dolorita asks Juan Preciado to get his vengeance upon his father Pedro Paramo who never cared about them. As we later find out, his neglecting duties as an exemplary husband and father is not the only factor that contributed to Dolorita’s vehement hatred of Pedro. On his way to Comala, Juan Preciado meets Abundio who reveals to him that he is not the only son of Pedro Paramo. The protagonist finds out that are numerous bastards left after his father because he raped a new girl every