Pedro Páramo Section 11 Summary

  • The original narrator, Pedro's son, is still talking to Eduviges after the Pedro flashback. He hears a noise, and Eduviges says that it's Miguel Páramo's horse, galloping down to the Media Luna.
  • It turns out that Miguel used to come to Eduviges' window, Melissa Etheridge-style, before he got a girlfriend in the next town over.
  • One night she heard a tapping on the window, and knew that it was Miguel Páramo, Pedro Páramo's son.
  • This would make him Juan's half-brother. Juan didn't know about that particular skeleton in the family closet, but Eduviges is full of surprises.
  • When he visited Eduviges that night, however, Miguel was not exactly himself though—he was dead, killed when he was thrown from his horse. When he died he saw himself being enveloped in a cloud of smoke.
  • Eduviges says she knew that Miguel had died, and sure enough, his horse came back without a rider. She sounds a little bit crazy here, but is basically saying that she saw a ghost.
  • And sure enough Pedro sent for Eduviges to come up to the ranch and keep him company after his son's death. This is another hint that things are a little bit ghostly in Comala. Now we want an American Horror Story spinoff called Mexican Horror Story: Comala.
  • Eduviges tells the narrator that he's lucky for not ever having heard the moan of a dead man. Yikes. We thought dead men told no tales?