Bless Me

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…

finds that he identifies very strongly with her and with the natural religion she believes; “she took my hand and I felt the power of a whirlwind sweep around me. Her eyes swept the surrounding hills and through them I saw for the first time the wild beauty of of our hills and the magic of the green river.” (Page 12) The story,’ Bless Me Ultima’ begins with Antonio’s dream of his birth, where the Luna’s, Vaqueros, and Ultima are all present. Immediately the Lunas and Vaqueros argue over the…

to stand up not only for himself, but his curandera, Ultima, in which others would describe her as a witch, but to Antonio that is his mentor and his guide throughout his difficult times that he faces all through the novel. Throughout the novel Bless Me, Ultima, written by Rudolfo Anaya, Antonio, the main character has difficulty learning about the mainstream society due to his upbringing in a Hispanic household; consequently, he did not get the feeling that he belonged due to his background,…

The theme of Bless Me, Ultima is becoming an adult means a person must make their own decisions. Some examples would be of Antonio making decisions throughout the novel. Antonio starts making decisions like an adult when he decides to go fishing with Samuel afterschool. “I thought of my mother. I always went straight home after school, but today I had something to celebrate. I was growing up and becoming a man and suddenly I realized that I could make decisions” (77). This quote exemplifies how…

World War 2: Bless Me, Ultima World War II is the most known war throughout the world and history itself. It was during a time of recovery from depression and a time of mourning after direct attack on Pearl Harbor. This is how it affected the Marez family in the story, "Bless Me, Ultima." Tony's brothers come home from the war, shortly after arriving, the oldest and youngest of the brothers decide to go to a club owned by Rosie. While they leave, the brothers bully Tony, "See you Tonieee...."…

Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, is a narrative that follows Antonio in his transformation from kid to man. In this story, Antonio’s parents have very different views on what Antonio should do with his life. His mom wants him to be a priest, but his dad wants him to be free and do whatever it is that makes him happy. Then a curandera, Ultima comes to live with Antonio’s family, and she shares her wisdom and knowledge about life with Antonio, with the hopes of helping him decide what to do…

In the book Bless Me, Ultima Antonio encounters many conflicts throughout his journey with Ultima such as evil spirits, brujas(witches), and religious devotion. One of the most significant conflicts was between English and Spanish speaking students at school. Another serious struggle was the clash between the two different lifestyles of the Marez blood and the Luna blood within his family. When Antonio starts school, he soon discovers a major struggle that will be there for most of his…

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).…

Bless Me, Ultima is a beautifully written novel that connects the audience to the characters and paints a wonderful picture, immersing readers into the story. This story is set in the desert plains town of Las Pasturas, New Mexico during the 1940s, around World War II. The main character, Antonio, lives with his mother, father, and two sisters, Deborah and Theresa, in a house in the llano, the open plain. When Antonio is almost seven years old, his mother and father send for the curandera,…

for breath” (Anaya 169). This is said when Tenorio, a man that many people believes is the father of 3 witches and may be an evil sorcerer as well, carries out the brutal murder of Narciso, the town drunk, underneath the Juniper tree. In the book Bless Me, Ultima, Tenorio is a symbol of hate because he murders two people and tries to kill Antonio, the main protagonist, but his gun misfires. He carries out these hateful crimes because he hates Ultima, Antonio’s friend and a healer who has helped…