`` Bless Me, Ultima Antonio 's Revelations That Would Later Foster His Religious Ambivalence?

In the novel, Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya, with the guidance from Ultima, a curandera, Antonio is conflicted in the search for his identity with his parental expectations and background influences. Ultimas beliefs assist Antonio in deciding who’s path he wants to take when he’s older, his mother’s expectation of him

Antonio, from Bless Me, Ultima, lives stuck in a world of in-betweens, a world of borders. He must navigate this world and find his place within it, all while trying to please his parents. Tony’s surroundings and cultural background lead to this in between world and force him to pick a side before he has even began to grow up. In Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima, Antonio is constantly searching for answers about his future and the world around him; he finds these answers through his family, environment, religion, and family friend, Ultima.

The “hero returns with a secret and vital message” hero stage is used here in order to highlight Antonio being the only one questioning religion. Anaya separates Antonio from the gang in order to have him face his conflict internally which makes it much more difficult for Antonio to decide whether these conflicting ideas are good. My other quotation has Antonio consult Ultima about this problem. When he does this she wisely says:

Antonio, from Bless Me, Ultima, lives stuck in a world of in-betweens, a world of borders. He is forced to navigate this world and find his place within it, all while trying to please his parents. Tony’s surroundings and cultural background lead to this in between world and force him to pick a side before he has even began to grow up. In Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me Ultima, Antonio is constantly searching for answers about his future and the world around him; he finds these answers through his family, environment, religion, and family friend, Ultima.

He who thought wisely on this foundation, and pondered deeply on this dark life, wise in spirit, remembered often from afar many conflicts, and spoke these words:

   The portrait of Mexican Americans is layered in shades of ambivalence. Aside from the fact there is evidence that they can not really be classified as a migratory culture in that the land where they tend to migrate once belonged to Mexico, they can also lay an earlier claim to the land as Native Americans. The Spanish Europeans who settled in the area that became Mexico evolved as the dominant culture over the oral culture of the Native Americans. Nevertheless, there is evidence of ambivalence among the Native Americans to the dominant culture of the Spanish in what is arguably one of the Mexico's basic texts, the story of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531.

Rudolfo Anaya focuses on the supernatural aspect of spirituality in Bless Me Ultima. This novel explores spirituality

1. Considering the trauma Tony had faced at 8 years old and especially taking into consideration the injuries of his family that occurred from their house burning down we can relate it to the difficulties Tony is now facing. Of this incident, Tony can no longer remain on his own, as he tends to be irritable and hyperactive as well as experiencing difficulty during the night as it often contains frightening nightmares of being trapped. Therefore, this has the result to Tony refusing to sleep on his own he must be accompanied by both parents. However, based on these emotional difficulties Tony has been experiencing he is experiencing a Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In reference to his terrifying nightmares of feeling

The Sopranos is an American television program that ran from the year 1999 until 2007. The series is often regarded by critics as the greatest television series of all-time. The program’s premise centers on a fictional Italian-American crime family from New Jersey. Tony Soprano, is the program’s main character, he is a Capo or underboss in the DeMio crime family. The show conceptualizes his everyday life, the difficulties he faces trying to balance a running a criminal organization and have a normal and natural home life.

Who could speak of such things? Not Emilio Sandoz who, for all his facility with many languages, remained tongue-tied and inarticulate about the center of his soul. For he could not feel God or approach God as a friend...and yet, as he had grown older, the path he had started down almost in ignorance had begun to seem clearer to him. It became more apparent to him that he was truly called to walk this strange and difficult, this unnatural and unutterable path to God, which required not poetry or piety but simple endurance and patience (160).

Antonio’s spiritual and religious confrontations help him mature throughout the novel and helps him discover himself. Antonio learns that death is inevitable and that God cannot always answer questions about life, you must experience it and answer those questions yourself. Antonio accepts all of these lessons that come from these experiences which eventually matures him into a

The lifestyle of a person determines how they go about day-to-day life. Tony, as a priest, must be careful how he uncovers information and interacts with people due to the position he

2. One archetype that is identifiable throughout the book of Bless Me Ultima is the mother figure Ultima shows towards Antonio. Antonio says, “I had more time to spend with Ultima, and in her company I found a great deal of solace and peace”. (223) Antonio basically sees Ultima as a second mother and he feels safe with her and knows that he can trust her. Another archetype in the book that was found was how Antonio felt close to his religion like how he was close to his mother and that also reflects his cultural heritage. Antonio says, “I turned more and more to praying before the altar of the Virgin, because when I talked to her I felt as if she listened, like my mother listened”. (187) These

In the book Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, the main character Antonio Marez is very conflicted with his religion and what his future will look like but also to keep his innocence as well. Throughout the book Antonio goes through a lot and he also learns a lot and with that he will join manhood and come to an understanding that there's a lot of evil in this world but also good. At such a young age Antonio already had to think if he would have Marez blood and become a vaquero or if he would have Luna blood and become a priest. This would always have Antonio wondering because he loved both of his parents and did not want to disappoint them he would always go to Ultima and ask questions but, “as you grow into manhood you must find your own truths” (page 125) Ultima answered she always knew what to say but also there to guide him and to make him not worry.

To overcome these limitations, Man must embark on a process of self-discovery in which he uncovers his Divine nature. Man psychic change, his mind expands and he experiences knowledge not through the hard churning of thought, but through light, intuition, and revelation of knowledge, culminating in supra mental