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The Theme Of Religion In Bless Me, Ultima By Rudolfo Anaya

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In the novel, Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, it has a commonly used motif, which is religion. Anaya used religion in the novel showing how the main character’s thoughts changed as he grows up. This correlation is very worked out and well thought because it leads directly into the theme of growing up. In chapter twelve of the book Tony, the main character, states “Ultima’s cure and the Golden Carp occupied my thoughts the rest of the summer. I was growing up and changing. I had plenty of time to be by myself and to think and feel the magic of these events contained” (Anaya 122). In the story Tony is Catholic and he has gone his whole life without questioning it, however, his first ever summer, he started deciding if he really wanted
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