Pedro Páramo
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
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Fragments 1-12, Pages 3-24 Fragments 13-23, Pages 25-41 Fragments 24-36, Pages 41-61 Fragments 37-46, Pages 61-85 Fragments 47-59, Pages 86-108 Fragments 60-68, Pages 109-124
Themes
All Themes Death, Hope, and Despair Power and Morality History, Memory, and Narrative Love and Patriarchy
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Characters
All Characters Juan Preciado Pedro Páramo Susana San Juan Dolores Preciado (Juan’s Mother) Abundio Martínez (The Burro Driver) Eduviges Dyada Miguel Páramo Lucas Páramo Father Rentería Ana Fulgor Sedano Bartolomé San Juan Damiana Cisneros Toribio Aldrete Damasio (“El Tilcuate”) Dorotea Donis Donis’s Sister/Wife Angeles Fausta Justina Díaz Gerardo Trujillo Inés Villalpando Contla’s Priest
Terms
All Terms Cristero War Don/Doña Rebozo
Symbols
All Symbols Rain and Water
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Pedro Páramo

by

Juan Rulfo
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Rain and Water

In the novel, rain represents the freedom, abundance, and harmony that Pedro Páramo gradually destroys as he turns the town’s land from a means of sustaining life into a source of profit and power. Pedro’s…

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