Bless Me

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudulfo Anaya Rudulfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima is about a young protagonist, Antonio and his coming-of-age. The story is also about Ultima, a curandera, who helps Antonio mature by guiding, mentoring and protecting him. The novel succeeds in reflecting Chicano culture of the 1940s in the rural parts of New Mexico, “Guadalupe”. Anaya uses myths, cultural motifs s and curandera customs like the gathering and use of medicinal herbs to show the readers how indigenous…

Dictionary magical realism is “a literary genre or style associated especially with Latin America that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction.’’ Magical Realism stories “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, “Bless Me Ultima’’, and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” use magical realism elements of interweaving the magical and mundane seamlessly, setting the stories in an otherwise ordinary world, and having a metamorphosis take place which is treated…

Antonio sat on the Douglas C-133 Cargomaster which held, including himself, 50 soldiers. They were on route to Vietnam to assist Southern Vietnam who were struggling against the Northern Vietnam. The Chinese and Russia helped the Northern Vietnam, this action needed to be countered immediately by the United States. Lyndon Johnson sent soldiers to Vietnam, not to fight, but to train the Southern Vietnam’s soldiers. Antonio sat on his side of the aircraft, fumbling with his fingers. “Eugene, Leone…

Antonio, like an oscillating pendulum, was moving constantly between fixed points, and Ultima grabbed hold of him and put him to rest, in the middle of the two points. This idea is represented by this image, with the scorching sun of the wild llano juxtaposed with the soft grass cascaded by the luminescence of the moon; the Luna and the Marez. But now in between these two opposites does not stand Ultima. It is Antonio between the Luna and the Marez; he holds his eyes closed with a peaceful…

values within. When being a Chicano you face obstacles like no other person because you live in the middle of two different cultures. Throughout the novel “Bless me, Ultima” the main focus is moral independence. The novel is important in Chicano literature because it combines both American and Mexican cultures into one whole. In the novel Bless me Ultima, Antonio the major character faces conflicts as early as his childhood. One example is the two different sides to his family; Luna and the…

three key things represent? “Bless Me Ultima” written by Rodolfo Anaya, a best-selling author and a “modern voice and founder in Chicano literature”. In the story, a young boy named Antonio lives in the small town of Guadalupe, New Mexico with his family and Ultima. Ultima is a healer who helps Antonio find his heritage and beliefs. Antonio likes school and farming in El Puerto with his uncles, he also enjoys collecting herbs with Ultima and learning from her. “Bless Me Ultima” follows Antonio's…

concept of triumph and tragedy are present in many works of literature such as, Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, and “The Stolen Party”, by Liliana Heker. These novels and this short story present a focus of being triumphant at times and getting stuck in a tragedy. You cannot know what it means to have a triumph if you have never known a tragedy. Rudolfo Anaya’s classic novel Bless Me, Ultima, demonstrates a young boy whose life has been nothing but ups…

Over the summer, I read three amazing books. They are A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by William Shakespeare, Mythology written by Edith Hamilton, and Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. These three books share many common ideas, including the theme of how personal identity is influenced by environment and experiences, and how identity and experiences inform choices a character makes along his or her personal journey especially when faces with challenges or hardship. In the book A Midsummer…

stressful conflicts and situations that one encounters throughout life. Although it may seem obvious that tension could have someone feeling confused or stuck, tension is a necessary element required for development and growth. In literary works such as Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya and Everyday Use by Alice Walker, this element of familial and inner tension are used in order to create characters such as Antonio and Maggie that drastically develop throughout their story. By having this…

their own idea of maturity and wisdom based on what one sees and experiences in their life. It is what one faces through out life that shape the character of a person. Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Última, delineates through his novel how wisdom and maturity come through experience. In the novel Bless Me, Última, Antonio Juan Márez Luna (Tony), the young protagonist, looses his innocence through the many adversities he faces in the story; however through the process learns to take control…