Murmurs and Sleep
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Murmurs and Slumber: A Pastiche on Abundio and his Fate This paper is based on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo, a novel which follows the character Juan as he journeys into the town of Comala and learns of its history and how Comala is now a purgatory for those who have committed "sins" and must now pay for those "sins". Rulfo uses multiple narrators, several points of view, various motifs, clipped sentences, and heavy dialogue to create an ambiguity that will lead to multiple interpretations of Pedro Páramo. Because the novel ends ambiguously and does not reveal what befalls Abundio or Pedro Páramo I have decided to write a postscript in order to tie up a few of the loose ends in Pedro Páramo Pedro Páramo ends with Abundio murdering Damiana Cisneros and being apprehended by a group of men. Pedro Páramo, on the other hand, worries in his...

