Parallelism In Bless Me Ultima

Antonio’s family always believed it was his destiny to become a wise pastor. They wished that he would become a man of learning, and Antonio wanted to live up to their expectation and be pure, but not everything follows up to what he expected from God. In Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses parallelism, active voice, varieties of sentences, and rhythm of speech to illustrate the significant moment which is the foreshadowing of Antonio’s destiny. Anaya uses parallelism to show more meaning to what is being said. The mother says, “Ana especially bless my Antonio, that all my go well for him and that he may be a man of great learning”(Anaya 55). Anaya shows how much Antonio’s mother cares for him by using the that clause when she asks Ultima to bless him. It makes the mother seem as if she has many prayers for Antonio, but it would take too long to list it all. Next, when describing the dust devils, Anaya repeats “they” to show that “They come from nowhere, made by the heat of hell, they carry with them the evil spirit of a devil, they lift sand and papers in their path”(Anaya 55). The repetition of “they’ makes the dust devils seem as it was a living being that purposely are out to ruin people instead of a force of nature. The last parallelism is when Antonio is describing how “it is easy to ward off the dust devil, it is easy to make it change its path and skirt around you. The power of God is so great”(Anaya 55). The use of parallelism shows how simple it is to make the …show more content…
When writing about the dust devils, he writes, “They come from nowhere,” but instead of leaving it at that, he adds on to it with, “made by the heat of hell, they carry with them the evil spirit of a devil, they lift sand and papers in their path”(Anaya 55). The added details help create a more lively subject that makes the whirlwinds more evil than they really are. Being blessed by such an evil force shows Antonio will learn of evil and become impure in the process which his mother doesn’t want, but it will make him into a better person. Lastly, Anaya uses rhythm of speech to show the significance of some sentences that he wants the reader to realize. When describing the dust devil, he greats a long sentences that are full of depth and color, but when there is something important to notice, “The power of God is so great”(Anaya 55), the short sentence gives emphasis out of all the medium and long ones. The variation of sentences length makes the passage sound pleasing to the ear, as if someone were telling you about dust devils in