Bless Me Ultima Dreams Analysis
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IB Candidate 0000536-xxxx
HL English: Written Assignment
28 April 2014
Use of Dreams in Bless Me, Ultima
By showing the dreams of a character, authors allow their readers to get into the mindset of that character. Dreams give the reader a first person experience of a character and allow the reader to understand the life from the character’s prospective. The author, Rudolfo Anaya, uses the dreams of the main character, Antonio, in Bless Me, Ultima to provide imagery, symbols, and foreshadowing that occurs to show Antonio’s understanding of life as he grows up, loses his innocence, and matures.
Antonio’s dreams provide vivid imagery of what he sees. Throughout the novel, he experiences many dreams. The imagery involved within his dreams allows the reader to connect with Antonio and visualize the dreams as if they were there, living them. In his first dream he “flew over the rolling hills of the llano. My soul wandered over the dark plains until it came to a cluster of adobe huts” (Anaya 5). This was the dream of his birth, and it gives the readers the landscape imagery of the area he lives in. It allows the reader to imagine what the state of New Mexico looked like around the end of …show more content…
In the first dream, the woman, who turns out to be Ultima, buried Antonio’s afterlife. This foreshadows Antonio’s true identity being revealed by Ultima right before her death, as she asks Antonio to follow in her footsteps. In another dream Antonio hears his brothers in the woods saying, “ Oh our sweet baby, we are coming home to you. We who had been beyond the land of our father’s dream; we who have traveled west until we were in the east, we are coming home to you” (61). This foreshadows the return of his three older brothers from the war. But yet in another dream of Antonio’s, when the three older brothers cannot cross the river, it foreshadows that once they return from the war they will leave
IB Candidate 0000536-xxxx
HL English: Written Assignment
28 April 2014
Use of Dreams in Bless Me, Ultima
By showing the dreams of a character, authors allow their readers to get into the mindset of that character. Dreams give the reader a first person experience of a character and allow the reader to understand the life from the character’s prospective. The author, Rudolfo Anaya, uses the dreams of the main character, Antonio, in Bless Me, Ultima to provide imagery, symbols, and foreshadowing that occurs to show Antonio’s understanding of life as he grows up, loses his innocence, and matures.
Antonio’s dreams provide vivid imagery of what he sees. Throughout the novel, he experiences many dreams. The imagery involved within his dreams allows the reader to connect with Antonio and visualize the dreams as if they were there, living them. In his first dream he “flew over the rolling hills of the llano. My soul wandered over the dark plains until it came to a cluster of adobe huts” (Anaya 5). This was the dream of his birth, and it gives the readers the landscape imagery of the area he lives in. It allows the reader to imagine what the state of New Mexico looked like around the end of …show more content…
In the first dream, the woman, who turns out to be Ultima, buried Antonio’s afterlife. This foreshadows Antonio’s true identity being revealed by Ultima right before her death, as she asks Antonio to follow in her footsteps. In another dream Antonio hears his brothers in the woods saying, “ Oh our sweet baby, we are coming home to you. We who had been beyond the land of our father’s dream; we who have traveled west until we were in the east, we are coming home to you” (61). This foreshadows the return of his three older brothers from the war. But yet in another dream of Antonio’s, when the three older brothers cannot cross the river, it foreshadows that once they return from the war they will leave