Category: Bless Me Ultima

 Chapter 1 (summary/ important events) Throughout these pages, he dreams about his birth and in that dream he had specific people in it. Later on, he asked his mom if the people he had in his dream were actually there. His mom said yes, but was a concern in why he was asking so many…

Adults often think that more experience means being wiser. However, children know a lot that adults do not know. By growing up, adults lose many of the traits of children as reality forces them to change. However, children are not constrained by social norms while adults are surrounded by rules and regulations that allow them…

In the novel Bless me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya there is plenty of significant symbolism shown throughout the whole story. The water, the Golden Carp, the Virgin Mary, Ultimas owl and plenty of others but a very intriguing symbol from the novel is blood. Blood symbolized several things such as the blood of the Marez…

In society, adults and children alike are told they must carry on the family name, but today, more now than ever, there are more and more people carrying two family names on their backs. The most notable culture to carry double surnames is the hispanic culture where a child will take their both fathers and…

A bildungsroman is an elaborate technique that shapes a novel as a whole, presenting the reader with a way to relate and grow closely involved with events surrounding the protagonist. Rudolfo Anaya leads the audience in Bless Me, Ultima towards the development of a young hero, Antonio, who needs to gain the wisdom of his…

His mother is the first introduction Antonio had to his religious identity. All his life he only knows what his mother forced onto him. With this formalized religion, he feels as if it is the only accepted religion and the only God he should follow and abide to. Especially since his mother continues to pressure…

At some point within peoples lives, they find themselves struggling to find who they want to be, what they want to believe and trust, and what they want to do.  I cannot tell you what to believe. Your father and your mother can tell you, because you are their blood, but I cannot. As…

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudalfo Anaya presents a powerful story of this young boy reaching his coming of age and demonstrates the distress caused by the split of two families. Antonio is on a journey of self-discovery and the war between the Márezs and Lunas only adds additional conflict. His childhood is revolved around choosing…

Sometimes understanding life alone is difficult and you need someone to guide you and teach you around life. In Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, the novel portrays the reality of life and how every family has its own set of problems and difficulties. Anaya demonstrates how to gain knowledge and lose innocence by following…

Imagine having to make a decision that will affect your whole life at such a young age. Well Antonio Jaun Marez Luna had to do such a thing, he was stuck between his parents wishes up until ultima came to live with him in the summer when he was almost seven. His mother wished he…