Rudolfo Anaya

Often, people live in uncertainty, keeping themselves from discovering outside-the-box ideas and never straying from the well-exercised path. Perhaps they make decisions based upon a direct idea of fate they may feel forced to follow or they simply fear the consequences, crippling any deep success in personal enlightenment. To be able to act free mindedly without confining to one specific outcome allows an expansion of opportunity and adventure to arise. The literary genre, magical realism,…

Events that may not seem ordinary in our world, are ordinary in the story’s world. A text that shows this is Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. The book takes place in New Mexico roughly after WWII. The narrator retells his memories as a child when Ultima, a curandera, first came into his life. In a specific part of the book, three witches, the Tenorio sisters, had put a curse on Tony’s…

Language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written. However, language is not easily attainable, you have to work hard to achieve any kind of proficiency. Sometimes life itself shows you a deferent type of language. For “the deaf and the blind find it very difficult to acquire the amenities of conversation” (Keller, p. 148). Helen Keller was able to surpass her obstacles: being deaf and blind, a status she acquired after a bout with scarlet fever at a young age and eventually…

individuals who encountered it “had been afraid of the awful presence”.(Bless Me Ultima, 2.36-37) Evil is presented as a force that either doesn’t exist, a physical entity that exists outside of oneself or as good left undone. Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya shows evil as an institution. Evil is seen in a way that benefits and is an understandable characteristic…

Sandra Cisneros’s short story, “Barbie-Q”, describes the hardships endured by a young girl, never identified by name, and the less-fortunate life she and her family lead. The child discloses the rarity of new toys, but purchases damaged Barbie dolls while on a trip to the flea market. The narrator acknowledges the flaws of the Barbies, but counters the stereotypical “perfect” woman standards by implying her gratefulness of possessing any dolls at all. Through this struggle, the girl learns to…

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Foreword 5. Quotation “He seemed relieved to be correcting a story he felt had become a kind of prison” (xiii). The author reveals that some parts of the books are false. Due to his horrific life and trauma, Shin Dong-hyuk, the protagonist, has been telling an untruth version of his story ever since he arrived in South Korea in 2006. Because of this, Shin begins to tell the truth and correct his lies and…