![]() ![]() Make him pay, son, for all those years he put us out of his mind."Īt a crossroads Juan Preciado meets a man driving burros to Comala who answers his questions on their walk down to the town. What he should have given me but never did. Her instructions: "Don't ask him for anything. ![]() Juan Preciado promises his dying mother that he will go to Comala, the town from which she fled years ago when she'd left his father, Pedro Paramo, to go live with her sister. It starts as many quest stories do with a boy going in search for his father. His comments soon led me to conclude that he just might need a discussion buddy and it wasn't long after I'd started it that I realized Pedro Paramo was a perfect selection for the Challenge. ![]() had read it for IB English a few years back. ![]() But Emma went missing for several days the week my son ventured into Austen territory and he picked up this one while waiting for her eventual reappearance we had it on hand since R. I had no intentions of reading Juan Rulfo's Pedro Paramo for the Once Upon a Time Challenge in fact, I had no intentions of reading it this year at all. Magical realism is fantasy written in Spanish. ![]()
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