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    something you’re not? In Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, and in Two Kinds by Amy Tan, Antonio and Amy go through the same thing. Antonio’s mother and father have big dreams for him, but only he can decide who he wants to be. Amy tries hard to live up to her mother’s expectations, but she has to decide what she wants to do with her life. Antonio and Amy’s character development and culture leads them to figure out that only they can decide who they are. In Bless Me, Ultima Antonio’s character development

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    The leisurely read of Bless Me, Ultima isn’t always high on hand to hand actions; however, it is abundant with internal conflicts on the main character, Antonio. Through the high points and low points of his life, Antonio struggles to find an answer for his life. Antonio’s internal conflict about his fate, leads to him questioning his religion and who the people around him actually are, as people. But when Ultima joins them at the house, Antonio has a person who he can relate with to talk out his

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    The majority of parents portray how they would want their kids to grow up and many may even enforce their opinions and decisions onto their children. In the book Bless Me, Ultima, the protagonist’s parents readily express how they ideally desire Antonio to choose a specific path, consequently placing Antonio in the center of a conflict between his parents’ cultural backgrounds. However, as Antonio’s story progresses, Antonio becomes conflicted when put to the test to satisfy the cultural differences

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    Bless Me, Ultima is a transformative novel truly represented by the series of events that Antonio experienced. Throughout the story, Antonio was forced to transform from a boy to a man after the severity of tensions of opposites in his life caused him to question everything he had ever known. Antonio reflected upon battles of opinions in his own household, religious differences, and stepping outside of his cultural upbringing for the first time. When Antonio witnessed an extreme amount of death,

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    Bless Me, Ultima Topic #5 Travis Nelson AP Literature Mr. Amoroso Travis Nelson

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    Literary analysis: Bless Me, Ultima Children are arguably one of the most beloved creatures on the face of planet earth. Sooner or later, a child will have to start developing into a man or woman, something every kid has to experience within his or her lifetime. Kids have to develop in a environment which they can grow up to be strong intellectual adults. They typically live in a safe environment with their parents and go to school on a daily basis while coming home to their families who happen to

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    Bless me Ultima Chapter 1-10 summary Chapter 1: - Antonio lays in the attic listening to his parents recount the life of Ultima, of how she started as a healer and ended as a homeless on the Llano. Antonio is an amazing lucid dreamer and is able to relive his birth and experience with Ultima. Antonio meets Ultima, greeting her with the term Grande, as she says that they have always had a close connection. Antonio dreams that Ultima’s owl carriers the Virgin of Guadalupe as well as all the babes

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    and inevitable: Antonio being born within it and Maggie being fully engulfed by it. Tension that is formed through family results in Maggie and Antonio finding inner tension within themselves, but there are several other conflicts within both Bless Me, Ultima and Everyday Use such as death, religion, and insecurities that add to their inner tension. The multiple deaths Antonio witnesses throughout the novel creates most of his inner tension. The death of Lupito, Narciso, and Florence all caused Antonio

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    In the novel Bless Me, Ultima, the Márez family came to be through two very different people. María Luna, a soft-spoken, devoutly Catholic woman from a farming family married Gabriel Márez, a rowdy, boisterous, cowboy. As one would imagine, their views are often times conflicting and vastly different. Like Tony’s parents, my parents came from very different backgrounds. My father was raised in the small town of Staples, Minnesota. He was brought up as a member of Church of Christ, and his family

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    In the book “Bless Me Ultima,” by Rodolfo Anaya, the role of duality goes very into depth with its many controversial topics. Some of these topics include the contrast between men and masculinity, language and culture, Catholicism and indigenous mysticism, and good and evil. Since Antonio must struggle to find his own identity and place he must battle between his family, beliefs, and self. This can be seen between his parents and their conflicting bias beliefs in which Antonio is stuck in the middle

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