Surname 1 Student’s Name Professor’ Name Course Name: Course Code Due Date Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo Introduction: When it was published Pedro Paramo is a novel that was inscribed and published in 1955. The author of the book is known as Juan Rulfo. The inscription is about a man acknowledged as Juan Preciado. In the first four years after it was published, the story only sold a thousand copies. In essence, the book did not have the targeted popularity despite it having an incredible critical reception in the public domain. Later in the years, the Mexican public domain considered the book as one of the greatest novels of all time, increasing its target audience and influence in the Latin American population. Latin scholars in the world of literature regarded Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo book as one of the greatest novels in the Spanish language and maybe the greatest Mexican novel stories that they have ever seen. The novel's widespread reputation created an enormous population base with a good reputation that captured the public's attention from a broader perspective. Thus, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, emphasizing what it is about and its influence on Latin American literature. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo: What is it about? The book provides a story of the noble character by establishing an individual who lived during the ages of revolution in the contemporary world. During the years of revolution, the novel explains how religious warfare contributed to constant property losses among multiple Surname 2 people, and Pedro Paramo was not an exception in this context. According to Wilson (236), greedy land barons confiscated and grabbed Pedro Paramo's land during the revolution while brutally expanding their land holdings across various people's lands, including Pedro Paramo's. The novel explains how the narrative mentioned above was tragic because people such as Pedro Paramo lost their lands and were rendered homeless due to greedy individuals expanding their territorial holdings. In this regard, it is essential to note that revolution during the era and years of Pedro Paramo, such aspects occurred rapidly within the society; however, land confiscation and grabbing were ruthless and uncalled for during the revolution. The novel also provides negative characters and political bosses who ruthlessly exploited towns such as Comala in pursuit of political and resource gain. Therefore, the negative characters and political bosses, in this case, are antagonists in the novel, while Pedro Paramo is the protagonist. In this prospect, the novel provides a perception that the protagonist is detached from the realities of the story since the narrative dwells on the antagonists and the aspect of revolution from a broader perspective. Arguably, the novel is neither fantastical nor naturalistic, but it relates to a visionary world that is overwhelmingly practical concerning the aspect of revolution. Therefore, the story begins with a young man, the protagonist being Pedro Paramo; he travels to Comala with the preference of finding his father despite the ongoing revolution (Burton 228). In Comala, he develops a feeling of belonging, depicting the evil that lives in Pedro Paramo's soul. During the journey of Pedro Paramo within Comal, Paramo meets Juan Preciado, telling him that his father died a long time ago while following Pedro Paramo's instructions. Juan Preciado then meets a woman, and the woman tells Juan that the man, Pedro Paramo, who guided him, died a long time ago and that Comala had become a ghost town with dead souls. The Surname 3 narrative above is a perfect reflection of the short stories in Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo stories that indicate Comala being a ghost town fading from the real world of history due to revolution circumstances (Wilson 237). Thus, it is essential to note that the novel is fragmented into multiple parts that provide a chronological illusion of various events in the novel. In the end, the young man, Pedro Paramo, finds his father's house in Comala, and it is heartlessly taken by people who want to increase their fortune and resources. The novel also depicts Pedro Paramo surviving the revolution as manipulating rebel political bosses emerged during the revolution. The book provides a comprehensive narrative of how Pedro Paramo lives through aural brushstrokes of life that depict hard economic times that categorize individuals with different classes. In this regard, the novel tends to point out the social and economic aspects of revolution while emphasizing cultural repression among women. Notably, the aspect of repression of women brought out aspects such as free rural speech concerning the effects of revolution during the period as women were degraded within the society. The aspect enables a reader to internalize the text from an oppressive that shows class, manipulation, exploitation, and oppression among women from a broader perspective (Wilson 236). Despite the revolution creating a lot of opportunities and development, it is essential to note that the revolution was costly during such periods as Pedro Paramo. According to Wilson (242), the story ends the lands fall into ruins, and Pedro Paramo is murdered by one of his sons. Notably, as described earlier in the context, the lands came into ruin through confiscation and grabbing from political bosses and land grabbers. Upon Susana's death, the book states, "From that moment the earth and as if in ruins." The novel provides a notion of how lands became overrun, and in a short while, the town of Comala became a ghost town with a full invasion from political bosses and land grabbers. Therefore, the author's Surname 4 artworks created an in-depth analysis of the novel's influence on Latin American literature. With sentences from Gabriel Garcia Marquez becoming part of the short stories enshrined the book for the solitude of a hundred years. Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo Influence On Latin American Literature The novel's influence on Latin American literature involves an excellent acoustic quality comprised of interior monologues and dialogues in various stories. In essence, the book materialized monologues and dialogues in literature hence influencing Latin American Literature. Initially, dialogues used for the primary purposes in novels and storybooks; however, monologues through the novel of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo came into perspective as literature significantly emerged to greater heights. Through the novel, most monologues and dialogues are improvised, making characters speak on their own like actors in movies and plays often do in their roles. Therefore, the described ideology above provides a perfect reflection of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo influence on Latin American Literature. Another influence on Latin America Literature incorporates the text using quite a number of colloquialisms, proverbs, sayings, expressions, and idioms. Initially, storybooks and novels only possessed sayings in the contemporary world. However, the introduction of the novel above influenced Latin American Literature by coming up with proverbs, idioms, and expressions depicting the evolution of literature from a broader perspective. In this regard, the influence on Latin American Literature gives a reader a regional flavor towards reading the novel and the lightness of the novel. It is essential to note that through the novel, Mexican readers could feel the Mexican siesta while reading the stories courtesy of the multiple expressions and idioms concerning revolution and other aspects. Thus, it is imperative to note that the narrative, as mentioned above, is a perfect reflection of Latin American literature's novel influence. Surname 5 The novel provides revolution as the primary crux of this context, and the emergence of revolution, in this case, enabled literary skills among various countries such as Mexico. With the revolution came circumstances of poetic qualities that enhance culture among women. Through poetic qualities, women could advocate for their voices to be heard through poems hence depicting revolution as an influence on Latin American Literature. The book emphasizes that through poetic qualities of speeches, there was a lingering influence on Mexico's relationship with culture, history, and death which brought an illusion in the literature that fosters Latin American Literature. In essence, the poetic qualities provided a drive towards understanding the literature behind Mexican culture, history, and instances of death. For instance, the interpretation of Mexican history provided a lot of analogies regarding Mexican literature from a broader perspective. The interpretations asserted through poetic qualities and the novel itself fostered the power of literary skills and words for most readers to the consumer. Notably, it is essential to note that the above elaboration depicts Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo influence on Latin American Literature. The Mexican revolution concerning the influence on Latin American literature deduced in the book enables the book's publication as an infamous novel in the contemporary world. Therefore, the book’s influence on Latin American literature through the Mexican revolution enables a collection of short stories about literature and revolution (Langford 15). In this regard, the book reveals a world with both lyrical and violent natures of the world by incorporating fantastical and naturalistic aspects. It is through the art of fantasy that Latin American literature creates short stories for people's consumption. Similarly, it is through naturalization that Latin American literature enables to propagate nature and naturalization as a cultural concept that needs to be intertwined in the novels and short stories in the coming future (Langford 9). For Surname 6 example, the short story on Comala being a ghost and decaying town that provides and describes Pedro Paramo as living bile is a perfect example of a fantastical and naturalistic character from a broader perspective. Thus, in this case, the book's influence perceives the Mexican revolution through short stories enacted in the book as an influence on Latin American literature. Haunting visions, flashbacks, the burden of guilt and death, and upside-down chronology enhances the narrative of the book’s influence on Latin American literature by providing the concept of monologues and dialogues. In essence, poets and scholars have established that the aspects named above form part of the literary skills in Latin American literature, hence the novel's influence (Brotherston 3). Besides, poets such as Octavio Paz from Mexico applauds Juan Rulfo, the author as the only Mexican novelist to have offered a pictural image of his text and the physical surrounding rather than mere elaborations and description of events. In this regard, Juan Rulfo's perception changed the game as Latin American literature evolved hence displaying the novel's influence on Latin American literature. Similarly, the preferences of the stories also show a judge of characters that people were not used to earlier in various novels. The stories in the novel provided scholars ample time to elucidate on the various character roles, myths, and acts of symbolism from a broader perspective. The notion above enables the narrative of the novel's influence on Latin American literature. Even today, scholars and poets take pride in describing acts of symbolism, flashback, and defining character roles in multiple other books. The analysis of this context also provides feminist literature due to the novel's influence on Latin American literature. Drawing out the attention of feminists tendencies in the novel is that they faced repression in the society, making them come up with methodological challenges that enhance Latin American literature. The methodological ideas that fostered literature in Latin America entail achieving cultural antygony, promoting sisterhood, involving women in novel Surname 7 roles, enhancing forums for women, and providing role models in society. The championing for the initiative above saw females become role models and especially took part in literature roles, influencing Latin American literature. Through feminists' literature, consideration of several literary methods came into perspective as feminists such as Elena Poniatowska became great novelists, film scriptwriters, and short storytellers (Hurley 123). In this prospect, the description above is a perfect reflection of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo influence on Latin American literature. Conclusion In conclusion, this paper provides an in-depth analysis of Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo, emphasizing what it is about and its influence on Latin American literature. The article first identifies when Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo highlights that it was written and published in 1955. The context goes further and talks about what it is about by establishing revolution as the crux of the storybook from a broader perspective. This paper also includes other short stories involving Juan Preciado. The article also describes Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo influence on Latin American Literature by incorporating aspects such as feminists literature, the emergence of monologues and dialogues, and the Mexican revolution concerning the book's other aspects. Surname 8 Works Cited Brotherston, Gordon. The emergence of the Latin American novel. CUP Archive, 1979. 2-4. Burton, Julianne. "Sexuality and the Mythic Dimension in Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures. Vol. 28. No. 3. Taylor & Francis, 1974. 228. Hurley, Teresa. "Elena Poniatowska (1933-)." A Companion to Latin American women writers, edited by Brígida M. Pastor, Boydell & Brewer (2012): 123-136. Langford, Walter M. The Mexican novel comes of age. Ardent Media, 1971. 1-16. Wilson, Jason. "Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo." The Cambridge Companion to the Latin American Novel (2005): 232-44. Surname 9 Surname 10 
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