Hempstead High School
Bless Me, Ultima LAP
Bonita Coleman
12EnglishAP
Mr. Amoroso
9/27/2016
Dreams, some are as clear as day and share a similarity with the purity of water. They cleanse the mind and reward us with a sense of relief but, some are murky, brown and muddy. They terrorize use at night and with a surprising twist of faith tend to cleanse the psyche as well. The unconscious mind uses dreams and nightmare as a means to force the dreamer to come to terms with reality despite the fact that its horrors leave them with scars. In Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses dreams as a way to illustrate the conflicting thoughts of Antonio and the emotions he is unable to put into words due to his age.
In Uno (chapter one) the reader …show more content…
In Nueve (chapter nine) Antonio’s dream deals with both the departure of his brothers and sex. Antonio is beckoned by his brothers to walk across a bridge that represents his maturity. Along with his brother’s Antonio walks down the well-worn path to the house of sinful women in a curious yet leery silence. Antonio see’s the image of Rosie, an alluring, mysterious and playful lady of the night. Upon gawking at Rosie’s girlish and attractive figure he compares her outwardly sexual aura to that of his mother’s prudish nature. Antonio is very quick to dismiss his blasphemous thoughts. Antonio refuses to enter crying out “No” as he is told by his brother Leon that he has Marez blood running through his veins and that “even priest are men… and every man is delivered of women, and must be fulfilled by a women” ( page 70). He is also told by his brother Andrew that they will not enter if Antonio loses his innocence. Unable to grasp exactly what this means he refuses and his brother enters despite his constant pleading. Antonio is too young to understand what innocence is and only refuses because of what his mother has taught him. He is to be a man of holy stature and thoughts of that caliber are frowned upon. His mother believes the greatest sin man can commit is the loss of innocence; therefore, any thought deviance is out of the question. His mother’s unrelenting desire to have a priest for a son keeps Antonio under a …show more content…
God tells Antonio that forgiveness will only be granted if he plead for the man who killed Narciso, Tenorio. Horrified by this request Antonio reminds god of Tenorio’s sin and the only reply he gets is laughter. Antonio is scowled and told that he has been caught in a trap of his making in spite of his complete transparency. Antonio wants God to forgive those who never deserved punishment in the first place. Both Narciso and Antonio have been condemned by the horrors of man. Andrew leads a robotic and lifeless existence due to the effects of war while Narciso was murdered for being misunderstood. Andrew is emotionally dead there is no justice for Narciso. Tenorio has been forgiven because he continues to live. Yet again evil is rewarded while good is
Bless Me, Ultima LAP
Bonita Coleman
12EnglishAP
Mr. Amoroso
9/27/2016
Dreams, some are as clear as day and share a similarity with the purity of water. They cleanse the mind and reward us with a sense of relief but, some are murky, brown and muddy. They terrorize use at night and with a surprising twist of faith tend to cleanse the psyche as well. The unconscious mind uses dreams and nightmare as a means to force the dreamer to come to terms with reality despite the fact that its horrors leave them with scars. In Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya uses dreams as a way to illustrate the conflicting thoughts of Antonio and the emotions he is unable to put into words due to his age.
In Uno (chapter one) the reader …show more content…
In Nueve (chapter nine) Antonio’s dream deals with both the departure of his brothers and sex. Antonio is beckoned by his brothers to walk across a bridge that represents his maturity. Along with his brother’s Antonio walks down the well-worn path to the house of sinful women in a curious yet leery silence. Antonio see’s the image of Rosie, an alluring, mysterious and playful lady of the night. Upon gawking at Rosie’s girlish and attractive figure he compares her outwardly sexual aura to that of his mother’s prudish nature. Antonio is very quick to dismiss his blasphemous thoughts. Antonio refuses to enter crying out “No” as he is told by his brother Leon that he has Marez blood running through his veins and that “even priest are men… and every man is delivered of women, and must be fulfilled by a women” ( page 70). He is also told by his brother Andrew that they will not enter if Antonio loses his innocence. Unable to grasp exactly what this means he refuses and his brother enters despite his constant pleading. Antonio is too young to understand what innocence is and only refuses because of what his mother has taught him. He is to be a man of holy stature and thoughts of that caliber are frowned upon. His mother believes the greatest sin man can commit is the loss of innocence; therefore, any thought deviance is out of the question. His mother’s unrelenting desire to have a priest for a son keeps Antonio under a …show more content…
God tells Antonio that forgiveness will only be granted if he plead for the man who killed Narciso, Tenorio. Horrified by this request Antonio reminds god of Tenorio’s sin and the only reply he gets is laughter. Antonio is scowled and told that he has been caught in a trap of his making in spite of his complete transparency. Antonio wants God to forgive those who never deserved punishment in the first place. Both Narciso and Antonio have been condemned by the horrors of man. Andrew leads a robotic and lifeless existence due to the effects of war while Narciso was murdered for being misunderstood. Andrew is emotionally dead there is no justice for Narciso. Tenorio has been forgiven because he continues to live. Yet again evil is rewarded while good is