Research Paper on:
Juan Rulfo's 'Pedro Paramo'

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time, influencing many writers who turned to a less realistic form of literature. His book is one that touches on the struggles of the Mexican people as well as brings  us a look at the fantasy and the myth that is such a powerful aspect of the Mexican people. In the following paper we examine Rulfos book and illustrate how  he intermingles fantasy with reality as it involves Mexico and the Mexican people. In so doing Rulfo brings us a very personal and intricate look at a people and its  history. Pedro Paramo Rulfos story is one that first presents us with the relationship between Juan Preciado and his dying mother. She makes him promise that he will  visit her hometown of Comala and look for his father, who is Pedro Paramo. Juans mother tells him about the region, illustrating it as a beautiful and lush land that  is almost like a mythological place. Juan pictures this grand vision and thinks of what he will find in Comala, clearly fantasizing about the magnificent place. When Juan arrives,  however, he finds something completely different, a dreary and desolate reality. This provides us with many possibilities in terms of the realities of Mexico and its people, as well as  the fantasy that has been presented. For example, one with a passionate culture truly imagines that times gone by, which includes people and places, are wondrous and magically beautiful. The  truth, however, is that people and places are often corrupt and desolate. Often, especially perhaps in Mexican history, people must imagine the beauty if they are to find a way  to survive the harsh realities and the harsh landscape. Such is clearly evident in the fact that many Native Americans and Mexicans who come for dry and arid regions incorporate