Pedro Paramo analysis
The people of Comala in Pedro Paramo seem to hate their lives and they all are looking forward to their deaths. The novel Pedro Paramo, by Juan Rulfo, is about a man named Juan Preciado who sets out to find his father after promising his mother that he will make his father pay for forgetting them. As Juan goes to his mother’s hometown, he finds a deserted ghost town where souls still roam. Throughout the novel, Juan encounters these souls and they tell him stories of Comala and how it fell. These souls also tell Juan about his father, a man named Pedro Paramo, and how he leads the town to its demise. In the novel Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo uses references to death to suggest that life is suffering. People always try to find easy ways out of situations even when they know the easy way is wrong. When Juan is walking to Comala he recalls something his mother said, “If you are leaving, it’s uphill; but as you arrive it’s downhill” (Rulfo 4). Juan’s mother is talking about the entrance to Comala and when you leave it’s uphill. Later in the novel Comala is referred to as being “…at the very mouth of hell” (Rulfo 6).