Symbolism In Bless Me Ultima

“Understanding comes with life, as a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people, sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people, Ultima has sympathy for people, and it is so complete that with it she can touch their soul and cure them.” ( Anaya, Rudolfo ). It is true if you cannot understand you cannot feel, understanding with the sensitivity you know why you feel that way. It is a lesson worth learning from what occurs in daily life. In particular, I will describe the plot as well as major events that occurred throughout the novel. Furthermore, from the novel identify the main characteristic and symbolism of significant …show more content…
Antonio Marez is a child of eight years of age who is moving to adolescence who is eager to know what the future holds for him. He comes from two different types of parent his mother a Luna who was brought up as a Catholic farmer and his farther a Marez from the llano a cowboy. Antonio feels pressure in pleasing both of his parents not knowing how to settle the two cultures into his life. Challenges standards such as the myth and bring in different ideas through the perspective of Antonio Marez questioning his religious beliefs. He strives to make his own moral decisions as well accept his responsibility for the consequences that came along from his loss of innocence to …show more content…
Of becoming priest along like the priest who founded the New Mexico colonies, a farmer, and farmer using the old method of farming of the Aztecs making them devoted Catholics. His father a Marez a wandering cowboy like the Spanish conquistadors his spirituality to the land that hurts the land is the sin. “Then maybe I do not have to be just Marez, or Luna, perhaps I can be both—I said.. take the llano and the river valley, the moon and the se sea, God and the golden carp and make something new, I said to myself. This was what Ultima meant by building strength from life. (247) At the end Antonio uses both into his heritage to understand his life not having to leave none out of his life like his father said “ Every generation, every man is part of his past. He can not escape it, but he may reform the old materials, make something new.” (246) A minor theme is the loss of innocence and to understand “ A thousand questions pushed through my mind , but the Voice within me did not answer. There was only silence … The mass was ending, the fleeting mystery was already vanishing.” 221 Antonio loses his innocent at the age of seven when he saw Luptio killing. Antonio goes through several trails throughout the novel from his innocence into gaining knowledge and experience. Feeling disclose from God not answering him he looks for comfort as well, answers from the golden