How do we transform from a little‚ young child to a big‚ grown adult? What problems do we face? Who helps us decide our future? In Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya‚ Antonio Márez must forward on the way to his own moral self-sufficiency. Antonio is put into the center of many distressing events which cause him to grow up faster‚ and lose his innocence. Antonio has many questions about spirits‚ god and beliefs. To get his answers‚ he must undergo a transformation. To attain maturity‚ you must have
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Throughout Bless Me‚ Ultima‚ young Antonio has to cope with and try to understand many tragedies. However‚ each death he observes makes him stronger and braver‚ therefore his character is developed through his experiences with death. Antonio watched three men die over the course of the novel‚ and during each event he was expected to understand and behave appropriately. When Antonio witnesses his first death‚ Lupito’s death‚ he was in awe and it truly impacted his life. While Antonio is hiding near
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“Antonio wants to know if he was baptized in the water of the moon or by the salt water of the sea.”(120) Whenever he dreams of being a Luna priest they all of a sudden change to nightmares. “He has so many dreams to be fulfilled‚ but Ultima tells him that his destiny must unfold like a flower‚ with only the sun
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“From my father and Ultima I had learned that the greater immortality is the freedom of man‚ and that freedom is best nourished by the noble expanse of land and air and pure‚ white sky” (Anaya‚ 228). Tony’s father then talks about the land possessing “a power that can fill a man with satisfaction” (Anaya‚ 229). Ultima adds on about the land giving faith for nature to grow and evolve. This means that with freedom and faith‚ you can evolve and grow. Consequently‚ Antonio comes to the realization that
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“But Fatima thought wretched years should be rounded out by a few good one‚ which she had yet to have” (72) Boo continues to characterize Fatima by showing the reader that she is slightly superstitious and believes in the balancing of life’s fair and unfair events. “...the rain came down like nails.” (73) The author’s use of a simile gives the reader a sense of the rain’s sharpness by comparing it to nails. This helps to develop the setting. “...but to judge by the piles‚ the Muslim garbage people
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GOOD VS. EVIL = Maturity Bless Me Ultima‚ a book by Rudolfo A. Anaya‚ is about a young boy named Antonio who comes of age through troubling ordeals throughout the book. He is aided in this journey by a curandera named Ultima‚ who teaches Tony many life lessons. Anaya uses animals to symbolize such as good and evil. Representing Ultima‚ he uses the owl‚ which serves as the good character‚ while the coyote represents evil‚ portrayed by Tenorio. The Golden Carp is a symbol of Tony’s confused uncertainty
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Nevertheless‚ an experiment can be terminated at anytime. The experiment of child cannot be aborted‚ and sometimes the Experiment fails when he or she chooses the wrong path. However‚ for Rudolfo Anaya’s "Experiment Antonio" of Bless Me‚ Ultima‚ the results are promising. Antonio‚ as a child‚ already possesses traits that lead to a good and pure life. He is naturally a mature and wise man-child yearning for knowledge. 	Antonio shows a startling maturity. Psychologically‚ a typical
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In Bless Me‚ Ultima‚ Antonio leaves his childhood behind and seeks to reconcile his conflicting cultural and religious identities. Although Antonio is only six years old at the start of the narrative‚ he already possesses a keenly questioning mind‚ a great deal of moral curiosity‚ and a solemn appreciation for the seriousness of life. Some of his traits are typical of children his age‚ such as his anxiety at leaving his mother to start school. In other ways‚ Antonio is extraordinary. He is much more
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and defeat. Atticus has to do things he doesn’t want to‚ like killing a dog and facing the court room. Bless Me Ultima: Rudolfo Anaya Ultima’s Owl: Ultima’s owl represents Ultima’s life in animal form. The owl that sings to Antonio every night comforts him during his dreams. This is just like how whenever Ultima is around Antonio he feels at ease. When Tenorio kills the owl‚ Ultima soon dies after because her animal force was killed. The Virgin of Guadalupe: The statue in this novel represents
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not it is the right time to buy a home. Depending on the size of the decision and influence‚ everything that happens in one’s life could be crucial moments that determine the final outcome of one’s life. This was seen in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me‚ Ultima and Bernard Malamud’s The Natural. Both author’s used the main characters to show that one’s future is determined by the choices made throughout life‚ and the outside influences that guide the choices. Anaya and Malamud use other’s expectations
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