... town. Comala is literally a ghost town; Juan is taken in by a series of maternal spirits that guide him through the history of the town and its death, brought on by Paramo. Paramo owns all the land, and with the willing assistance of the church, most of the town is dragged into corruption, philandering ... Americans to make soap. Rulfo chooses this plant to indicate that the tree is an ornate and hearty tree but cannot even grow near this town of death. Likewise, the flowers are producing a "rotten stench" which is unusual because the flower was used to make soap and cleanse the body. Th...

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... . These techniques opened me up a to a completely new form of photography, so in my opinion they are very successful. The artist says that Susana writhes very much in The Susana & Death (1995). From this photograph, I can see that Susana wants to die very much because she holds the skeleton in her hands, and this represents her longing for ... death. The artist also describes Susana's isolation in Candlelight (1998) and in The Candle (1996). In Candlelight (1998), a candle indirectly describes Susana's isolation. In this work, she is in agony because ... ...

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... . Miguel Paramo killed Father Renteria's brother and raped Father Renteria's niece Ana. These events were merely taken in advance with Renteria's philosophy of "never hate anyone- but it was the death of Miguel that ruined Renteria's religious beliefs. Father Renteria performed the funeral ceremony and did not offer a final benediction partly for selfish reasons of revenge, using his pastoral robe as ... ...

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