Bless Me Ultima Literary Analysis

Everything we experience in life is just setting us up for something greater. We might not see it like in that specific point in time but every day we are being tested and with obstacles in our way for they are just molding us into the people we are destined to be. A child’s mind is so pure and just the tiniest drop of reality can shake their whole world around and make them question everything that they’ve come to know. Now instead of a drop, imagine a waterfall. In the book “Bless Me, Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya, Antonio wasn’t prepared for all that was placed in front of him, he’s had so many thoughts arising from his mind that it started stripping his own belief apart.

We are our own worst enemy. The demons in our head can toy with us and

You truly don’t know a person until you actually made some sort of connection. We as people are so prone to being judgmental it’s just natural to our very being for we don’t even realize it. Narciso in the book is known to be the town drunk. No one took him serious or had anything nice to say about him. However, he tried to make justice out of every situation he was put in. When the mob wanted Lupito dead he was the one who stood up for him. Antonio didn’t really know him until he stepped afoot to his garden and saw the magic in it, for he couldn’t believe it was Narcisco’s garden for it was truly a reflection of him. Narciso has always had Ultima’s back for they seemed to have some sort of connection between them since they were both misunderstood but had some sort of magic within them. He put his own life at risk for the life of ultima. For he was standing in the way of evil and the outcome was him getting murdered under the juniper tree. (Anaya 177) “It was peaceful under the juniper tree. The snow continued to fall dense and heavy, but the wind was still. The trees huge, dark branches offered protection, like a confessional.” The whole setting is reassuring. At this moment Antonio was asked to bless another person. (Anaya 178) “I knew I had to pray. I had to pray an act of contrition for his departing soul, like I prayed for Lupito while his body went cold. I had not bloodied my hands with his

However, when a child is stricken with tragedy their actions portray their struggle with trying to find peace. Florence was one of those kids. He’s had such a rough past, he lost his parents and his sisters are no longer a part of his life, due to this he doesn’t believe in god. Ironically even though he doesn’t believe in god he still goes to church school but not to praise him but to be around his friends. He is like the oddball/ outcast of the group. Yet he was the only one there that would ask so many questions about god for he was curious and was trying to puzzle together the pieces as to why god does what he does. Toni through it all he still has hope . Hope is the one thing that we all as human beings should have for if we don’t have that thrive within us we are just mindlessly living our life with no purpose. Florence didn’t have that hope. At one part in the book the friends are forcing Toni to role play a priest and to hear confessions and then to give punishments, they wanted him to punish Florence for his sins but Toni refused to do so and so the group of friends beat up Toni. He was being tortured for doing the right thing. After that Toni still felt in his heart that he had sinned and needed to make a confession even though he didn’t do anything wrong. (Anaya 228) “I made the sign of the cross and said forgive me father for I have sinned, and I made my first confession to him.” This just shows how strong his faith is for