14. Meliton; peasant with the most optimism about the horrible land they were given
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16. Author’s biographical info: Rulfo had an interest in the abandonment of the project of land redistribution towards the end of the Manuel Avila Camacho’s Presidency
19. Odilon Torrico; A thief who terrorized the town of the Comadres with his brother
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21. Author’s biographical info: Rulfo touches on land distribution using the example of the hill, when it was distributed everyone had a piece of land but over time the Torrico’s came to own all of the land on the hill.
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23. The Pursuer (Urquidi is following “the man” to kill him to avenge his dead family)
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25. Author’s biographical info: Rulfo noted that the revolution had started violence from which no one could escape from or unassociated themselves from the violence
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27. Tacha; youngest daughter in her family who lost her cow in the river flooding and is left with no dowry
28. La serpentine & calf; tacha’s cows and dowry for her future husband
29. Father; head of the household who bought tacha her cow so she would be able to marry a man and not become a prostitute like her older sisters
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31. Author’s biographical info: In this story Rulfo points out how bad the ecnomy is. The quality of land in the redistribution was so bad that entire family’s had to rely on a single possession.
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33. Don Justo; Older man who was very well off and known to have anger issues
37. Tanilo Santos; A man who became very ill with a diesis that made his skin burst with puss and had a horrible stench but believed that the Virgin of Talpa could cure him.
52. Eggplant; Urbano’s mother she was called eggplant because every time she fooled around she would end up getting pregnant. The small fortune she had was lost in all the funerals that she did for her children who would die shortly after being born
53. Natalia; the only daughter of eggplant to live and only sibling to urbano, she married Nachito and later on had to set up a fruit juice stand near the freeway to support him.
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56. Ignacio; is a thief who’s killed people, one of them being Tranquilino who baptized him when he was little.
60. Transito; The sons wife and mother of his 3 sons and 2 daughters. She ends up leaving him for another man while he tries to go to America.
61. Estanislado; He organized everything so that a group of men could immigrate into the U.S. by crossing the Rio Grande, but died shortly after the group of men were ambushed and shot at in the Rio.
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64. Nieves Garcia; one of the ten woman who are from the Congregation of Amula and past lover of Lucas who became pregnant and had to abort because Lucas left her.
78. Priest entrusted his library to Rulfo's grandmother, beginning Rulfo's affection for reading. Juan Nepomuceno and Maria Perez Rulfo Vizcaíno, parents of Juan Rulfo. 1919.
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