Azuela narrates the story in small bursts of prose and covers extended swaths of a period in brief story passages, moving along rapidly from one killing to another. Azuela emphasizes on a technique that was applied by Demetrio Macias, a conventional farmer whose subjective battle with government militaries closures his fate as a dissident on the run.
Soon Demetrio collects a band of ant-government individuals transforming them into a heralded cluster of a marksman, picking soldiers to achieve reinforcement of their cause. The author demonstrates ideology of war based on what was happening among individuals. Additionally, romantic interludes exist despite the fact that they are dominated by aspects of war and killings. The underdogs are stoical as Demetrio could not comprehend the extensive fight as he keeps battling till he is the only man standing.
...Mexican revolution was dominated by fighting facilitated by diversities which existed.
During the period when General Natera reaches the district, the Demetrio’s status has significantly grown and made the colonel of the army. His action of not considering Zacatecas constitutes to a forced retreatment of the rebels along the road. Demetrio had an idea of returning to Camila but convinced not to by General Pancho’s information of giving the rebels a new incentive. The issue of land in the story brings about the government sending some troops to take control. The two troops meet there, the rebel and the federal and clash. Towards the end, Demetrio Macias’s body is found lying along the barrel of his weapon. Significantly, there is culture ideology. This is clarified by the war and how the soldiers are responding to every call. It shows that it is
their culture from the past to participate in clashes due to certain reasons.
