An Analysis Of Bless Me Ultima

Bless me ultima is a novel with a foundation of family religion and tradition. Antonio is a young boy who had the task to decide who he wanted to be in life and what he wanted to do in the future. As a young child he lived up to what his parents wanted, but he never thought about what he really wanted to strive for until he met Ultima. She shaped him to be a brave and descisive fellow. He was destined to be a great man with a great future awaiting his arrival. Througout his years he experienced many difficult descisions in which he had to choose who he wanted to be in the future. Antonio encounters many problems in this novel but the most difficult one was definately his choice of future job. Antonio was a boy who grew up in a very religous …show more content…
That very important person was a old and wise woman named Ultima. She was a very powerful and intelligent woman who taugh Antonio many lessons that made him the boy he was in the end. She was a curandera, and she got to show Antonio what it was like to face evil forces that could be defeated with the power of good will and strength. In the pueblo of Guadalupe, where Antonio lived, she was known as a mysterious and freightening witch becuase of the amount of power she possesed.
His overall path into becoming a greater person was like a roller coaster he has many obstacles he had to overcome. He was present in an incedent in which a man was killed later on in the story a man who he connected with, was also killed. To such a young boy this wa mortifying but he kept it fstrong in his emotions and he kept going as if it were a sign that all that happened was supposed to happen in order for him to shape his future. An example of when Ultima was able to convince Antonio that his destiny would come at its time and that in the present all he had to do was gain knowledge was when she stated “But if a person really wants to know, then he will listen and see and be patient. Knowledge comes slowly--" (Chapter …show more content…
“As a Hispanic, I cannot believe that I hadn 't read *Bless Me, Ultima* earlier. Once I started reading this book, I could not put it down. Anaya is a superb storyteller (Good reads).” “This is a hard review to write. I read Bless Me, Ultima because it is frequently challenged, often banned, sometimes even burned. I read it because it has been banished from Tucson classrooms and school libraries. I read it because I live in a majority Mexican-American community in a part of Arizona that until relatively recently was still part of the state of Sonora, Mexico. And I read it because many readers have praised it (Good reads).” Both review praise the book and acknowlege the fact that it is important to acknowledge the fact that the Mexican background of this book is relevant to what the world looks like