![]() ![]() They are passing by, unaware they are being watched. Some time later, the soldiers suddenly appear right in front of the men in hiding. ![]() El Chihuila gets up and goes to see what has happened. The men try to sleep but keep getting distracted by the noise in the ravine.įinally a shot rings out and Pedro’s men hear the racket of a gunfight. ![]() The narrator is a member of Pedro’s band of revolutionaries, and after the epigraph the story begins in medias res with a battle cry from the federal soldiers in support of their general, just before a skirmish begins: “¡Viva Petronilo Flores!” The soldiers are in a ravine whereas the revolutionaries are up above, and after a few moments La Perra, one of Pedro’s men, gathers the four Benavides brothers (Los Cuatro) to “see what bulls we’re going to fight.” The reconnaissance mission is observed leaving by the rest of Pedro’s men (including the narrator) from their position against a stone fence. The narrator of “The burning plain,” Pichón, describes the fate of one such group, that of Pedro Zamora. ![]() These words (“They’ve gone and killed the bitch / but the puppies still remain…”) refer to the way that the spark that began the Revolution created successive movements which were often quite independent of its original impulses and were difficult to bring to heel. This story begins with an epigraph from a popular ballad. ![]()
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