Juan Rulfo
At the center of the story “Remember” by Juan Rulfo is the refrain, Remember, from the first-person narrator to some listener a contemporary of his who went to school with him and should be aware of every incident that is recalled, every person named and described, every sad situation unearthed from the moth balls of memory.
“Remember,” he says over and again, while himself as we’ll see showing evidence that time has blunted the edges of his recall; the vagaries of his mind emerge in details that are by turns vivid or vague.
What is certain is that something terrible has occurred. Urbano’s childhood was already fraught. One single event from the fifth grade stands as some kind of unfortunate touchstone. This one time when Urbano ended up humiliated, so disgraced that he vowed a kind of revenge.