Have you ever encountered a death? Well maybe being right by one, or seeing the life of someone end right in front of your eyes, seeing them speak their last words and even seeing someone getting killed. How would that effect you growing up? The book Bless Me, Ultima Antonio encounters all those atrocious events in his young ages. The three deaths weren’t any regular death well to some it may have been, but look in a young six-year-old eyes. He knew he could have done something with all three events of death but how would you react? Fast or in a timely manner?
One out of three deaths the first would be Lupito , the effect of his death on Antonio was confused.. Tony worried that his father bullet or any one out of the mob bullet could of killed Lupito but he was in confusion on wether it was his father’s bullet that struck Lupito the night in the river after Lupito killed the sheriff. He thought about was his father good or evil , was that the right thing to do just kill a man that thought he was doing right. Another effect was about how he look at God he wondered “would God forgives Lupito and grant him Purgatory”(27). Antonio thinks “God didn’t forgive anyone” so he figured that God won’t forgive the mob including his father and God wouldn’t forgive Lupito for the crime he committed.
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The effect on tony was him questioning God about life and death good and evil, right from wrong. Tony witness the murder he just wasn’t sure “ I knew what Tenorio had done , and I hate myself for not having guessing it” (168) says Tony. Narciso has Tony pushed to an maturity level he’s giving him his last words he’s giving him his last confession. Tony knew that Narciso had done good “ I wanted to cry out into the storm that it was not fair that Narciso die for doing good, that wasn’t fair”(170). The effect is how could someone like Narciso die for doing good by a evil devil