A Short Note On The De La Literatura

“’It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant’” (Anaya 98). In the beginning of Bless Me Ultima, Antonio’s inquisitive nature is revealed after his innocence is threatened by the evil committed in the murder of Lupito. He struggles to choose a path of life that pleases both of his parents’ sides of the family. Furthermore, Tony experiences the loneliness of growing up in an English-speaking school where he does not fit in or understand the language. Near the end of the novel, Tony still holds the child-like belief that all his questions about evil will be answered by God once he makes communion, but he is disappointed. Through indirect characterization, Rudolfo Anaya reveals Antonio’s questioning nature as well as his struggles with conflicting beliefs in the coming-of-age novel, Bless Me, Ultima, to make a more relatable and believable character.

The chaotic life of Edgar Allan Poe is reflected in his work. The stories The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Cask of Amontillado, are both written using Edgar Allan Poe’s life as a reference. They show elements of his dark depressing life where his mother died of tuberculosis and his dad died as well before he was three. He was then raised as a foster child by his two brothers, Francis and John. He then became a writer of short stories which everyone told him was a mistake. It is also unknown how Poe died which adds yet more mystery to his life. As can be seen, Poe’s life was very dark and dim. This mood is portrayed in Poe’s stories as well. In Cask of Amontillado, Poe writes about a man seeking revenge on his friend and ends up changing him up in the catacombs and then sealing him down there with a wall that he built. The Pit and the Pendulum also has dark elements to it. This story revolves around a prison who fights the battle between jumping into the unknown or letting himself be tortured. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style in The Pit and the Pendulum and The Cask of Amontillado express conflicts developed by dark and claustrophobic settings, develops a dark mood and tone similar to his own life's mood through dark diction and an immersive point of view, and finally develops a common theme of danger of the unknown by using a limited point of view including ominous, unexplained elements.

An illiterate person can be successful and live a productive life, a high school dropout can make a respectable wage, a person with a college education can be underemployed, and many people with doctorates who are unemployed. The literate arts do not guarantee success and money. What the literate arts do offer a person, are tools that make gaining knowledge and wisdom easier, both during and after their formal education. The gaining of this knowledge and wisdom offers other tools that make success easier – whatever success may be. If and how these tools (which are acquired through the literate arts) are used is entirely up to the individual.

People might have thought of giving a revenge on someone that you really hate, but if the revenge is to kill that person, what would it be like? There is a book named "The Cask of Amontillado" which handles this kind of subject. This book seemed to be a fiction, and is this book a literary or commercial fiction? While I was reading the text, I thought the plot, characters, and the theme was more towards the literary fiction. As I read this book, the unique plot and the first person of the protagonist is the narrator was very interesting.

Experiencing death can sometimes be the best event someone can go through. Death is more than just someone stopping from existing, it’s a concept that can be perceived as a new beginning. Being able to take the death of someone and turning their philosophy into consideration can be beautiful. In the novel “Bless Me Ultima” by Rudolfo Anaya Antonio gets his faith put to the test when the arrival of Ultima brings him the beginning of the end.

A majority of fathers in a household expect their sons to grow up as they did. In the novel Bless Me, Ultima, Antonio’s father, Gabriel, and his brothers all reassure themselves that Antonio would be just like them and roam the llano in freedom and learn how to live the vaquero lifestyle. Their take on a good lifestyle is getting to kow the land and not being tied down by reponsibilities and nonsense. They take great pride in their ancestry and expect to carry on that pride to not let their ancestors become forgotten. The vaqueros seem to live in a carefree lifestyle, which means not too many responsibilities to hold them down. The vaqueros who arrived with Gabriel during the birth of Antonio proudly stated, “He will make a fine vaquero!”(Anaya 5).

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 on his parents’ sides of the family. Both of his parents imply that Antonio should take pride in the ancestry and become like his ancestors from the each side of the family. As Antonio’s mother states in the novel, “You will be like my brothers.” this causes the conflict of identity to turmoil within Antonio and even adds feelings of confusion (Anaya 9). Antonio’s father and mother have mutual feelings of how Antonio is to become what their own families raised

In assessing interpersonal relationships, the concept of race is a powerful factor. The United States upholds a problematic legacy in regard to the power discrepancies between racial minorities and white individuals. The race issues that currently exist in the U.S. are of unacceptable quantities but are also progressing through a path towards larger conflict that can be analyzed through theories of race and ethnicity, specifically critical race theory. After an overview of critical race theory, there will be an analysis of the historical context of the U.S., looking at slavery and segregation. A discussion of the existing systemic issues that reinforce power imbalances will follow. Subsequently, there will be an examination of “white privilege” and the violence that can emerge out of this notion. The stance that is being taken here is not merely that there is severe racism in U.S., but that in using critical race theory, one can see that race issues are so deeply rooted in society to the extent that it reinforces future inequality and violence.

"Metafiction is a term given to fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and reality."

Spain during the 16th century has been described as a time of oppression, a time of exploitation of the subordinate class. For example, in the text of The Life of Lazarillo De Tormes a gluttonist priest offers Lazarillo scraps of an Eucharist bread, that was nibbled by mice. The priest tells Lazaro to take the bread, stating “There, eat that. The mouse is a clean animal.” This shows the how the higher class sees the lower class, it shows how they believe in offerings coming from them should be taken as a gift, even if a literal rodent has tampered with it. Most who could live during this this time usually were those who held high levels of intelligence and were also devious. Due to this, Lazarillo, being a man who holds the fore told

Racism should also be closely examined as it is perceived as the acceptable norm in the society. The book shows that sometimes it may take ridiculous forms such as refusing to serve ice-cream to a Black family or suddenly dismissing a worker after learning that she was Black and not Hispanic. The author portraits the bigotry of the people who blindly follow the norms.

Edgar Allan Poe practices literature within use of the intrinsic qualities that possess the many definitions assigned to the word ‘literature’. Poe is an artist of words. He uses aesthetic, creative works of fiction to tell stories of drama and often horror. Poe’s’ literary genius is translated most commonly through his ingenious poetry and short stories. Consequently, it is his tendency to lace parts of his own personal life and views into his story-telling that causes critics to downplay the true art of the work by Poe. In this essay, the short story “The Cask of Amontillado,” will be analysed to make the argument that Poe is a serious writer through his use of proper literary aspects.

Es evidente que en nuestra sociedad el racismo aún prevalece. Lo vemos todo el tiempo en las noticias, los crímenes de odio contra los latinos, de Oriente Medio, los afroamericanos y otras minorías. Sin embargo, es aún peor cuando los actos racistas vendrán de gente que se supone para proporcionar la misma protección, los que son de la ley. El acto de aplicación de la "focalización personas por la policía o la detención de seguridad en función de su origen racial o étnico en la creencia de que ciertos grupos minoritarios son más propensos a involucrarse en conductas ilícitas" (Feder 2) es la definición de la discriminación racial. Es degradante para las minorías que van a través de él, así como ilegal.

In "Historical Text as Literary Artifact," Hayden White compares historiography with literature. Historians must rely on a "historical imagination," such as filling in the blanks or making assumptions about events. History is a "constructive" enterprise, and historians are trained to perceive patterns that may or may not have actually existed. If historians rely on the "historical imagination," as they must to complete their task, then historiography and historical literature are qualitatively similar. White admits that the "conflation of mythic and historical consciousness will offend some historians and disturb"¦literary theorists," (1713). Yet these two seemingly distinct disciplines have more points of convergence than is often assumed. The sensitivity surrounding White's claim stems from a common presumption that historiography equals absolute fact, whereas literature equals absolute fiction.

As I read about different types of literary criticism, I felt compelled to apply the Marxist school of literary criticism to Poe’s short story “The Cask of Amontillado.” The Fortunato character appears to have a rising distinguished social status, a nobleness forming an equality, and or possibly surpassing the Montresor character. This changing social status acts as a symbol of the status the Montresor family name and crest used to have but it’s in decline. The success of the Fortunato creates the thousand injuries that aggravate the Montresor to plot and commit murder for revenge of the Fortunato’s success.