Rulfo attended the Luis Silva School for Orphans in Guadalajara from 1928 to 1932 as well as seminary and secondary school before moving to Mexico City where he started his career as a writer and film producer. Rulfo admitted to never finding the logic behind the series of assassinations and other acts of cruelty that happened during the Revolution that led to the death of all key members of his family. He told Sommers about how difficult it was to live in such a devastated area of the country, where destruction was widespread and took its toll on human lives as well as on the geography of the region. In an interview conducted by Joseph Sommers in 1978, Rulfo described his childhood as very rough for him. Since nobody adopted Rulfo after these incidents, he was sent to an orphanage. As a result of the revolution, his family underwent financial ruin, his father and two uncles were assassinated in the turmoil, and his mother died in 1927 of a heart attack. The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and the cristero rebellion had serious repercussions on Rulfo's family. His ancestors originally came from the north of Spain in the late 1700s. At a very young age, his family moved to San Gabriel, Jalisco. He was born in Apulco, Jalisco on May 16, 1918, to a wealthy land owning family on the rural countryside. Very little is known about Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo's childhood apart from the few and imprecise facts he announced publicly over the years.

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