"Being Haunted? "

Juan Rulfo’s novel, as many of its critics emphasize, “Evokes for readers the experience of being haunted” (Anderson, emphasis mine). What does Anderson mean by that? Anderson means that this novel makes the reader uses its past haunted experiences to make them for what the character is feeling. The author relates this novel by using Juan to relate with the reader, which is making us closer with Juan because we are seeing what he is experiencing. The author did this to make the reader feel more attached like it was like you know them personally. So this means you going to feel what they go through and you’ll see yourself in that predicament. Like one of the major things that the author does to make the reader feel haunted is by making Juan talk to all those dead people. Like imagine you in that same situation it just seems way too crazy for me. Like one night I was reading the book and my mom bumped into the wall and it frightened me so I guess I do share the same experiences and feelings as Juan because I thought there was ghost in my room. I imagined myself in comala and seen dirt swirling around abandoned buildings and it was just a bad feeling I felt like I was in one of those feed me commercials and I heard howling of the ghost. I got that into it by reading. One of the themes that are in the book is madness. Madness was one of the things that made me feel tied to the book because you must be crazy to imagine that there is really ghost in this world. All these things are major parts of the book. Anderson makes a key point with his quote by saying” evokes for readers the experience of being haunted” I would have to agree with Anderson because when I read this book it makes me feel like I was one of the characters in it. I feel like I was in the journey with him doing it and helping him out, so this makes the reader feel like he is in it.