Jumbled Thoughts

The first page of Pedro Paramo starts off with Juan explaining why he is going to Comala. He explains a lot about the promise to his mother to go find his father. The language on this page is really strait forward. It has limited figurative language and imagery. This juxtaposes with the novel because the novel is anything but strait forward. The first page shows Juan’s memory of making the promise to his mother and how he felt. Towards the end of the page is when there is some more figurative language involved. “But before I knew it my head began to swim with dreams and my imagination took filght” (Rulfo 30). This quote personifies his thoughts and dreams and it is also very juxtapositional between flight and water. This quote demonstrates the jumbled thoughts of Juan and it also relates to the Jumble thought and writing of the author further in the book.