Pedro Pἁramo chapter 1 analysis by Sebastian Legarburo

“The man who had been my mother’s husband” (page 3), this is quite an interesting sentence. Juan pretty much removes himself from even being closely related to Pedro Pἁramo. By doing this he renounces his father and everything that he has to do with him. It has to do with the fact that Pedro  Pἁramo kicked out Juan’s mother before he was born and the fact that he has never seen his father and vice versa. This is also the case when Juan’s mother says “make him pay, son, for all those years he put us out of his mind” (page 3). As well Juan says later in this chapter “I began to build a world around a hope centered on the man called Pedro Pᾲramo” (page 3). The author uses great diction, foreshadowing, and irony in this sentence. In reality the town of Comala was actually centered around the world of Pedro Pἁramo everything he did affected the town. This is especially the case when he got Father Renterἰa to forgive the sins of his son which forever doomed the town of Comala into an eternity in purgatory. He did this by making Father Renterἰa commit a terrible sin (forgiving a rapist and murderer) and therefore making him unable to forgive the town’s sins.