Analysis Of Bless Me, Ultima By Rudolfo Anaya

How do human beings talk about God in the face of poverty and suffering? This is the question the Book of Job raises for us. A moral and honorable man lives a prosperous, happy and fruitful life. As a wager between God and Satan on the issue of disinterested religion, they test to see if his faith and religion are actually disinterested. This leads to another question of whether human beings are capable of asserting their faith and talking about God in the face of suffering in a disinterested way. In his book “On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent” Gustavo Gutierrez makes the point that human beings, especially the poor, are capable of a disinterested faith and knowledge of God in the face of suffering. His application of liberation theology, way of talking about God, and interest in the poor allow Gutierrez to assert that human beings are capable of a disinterested religion in the face of poverty and suffering.

Utilizing Antonio's brothers and their actions, Anaya symbolizes his parents burdensome expectations. The three brothers provide an example for Antonio´s quest for identity that he should be able to look up to. However, they are very irresponsible and yearn for independence from their parents. Comparing tony to ¨her priest¨, as gene states, Anaya represents the way the three brothers have dropped the full weight of their parents expectations on Tony's shoulders. They seem to want to pursue a more vaquero lifestyle, however, they don´t wish to help their father with his dream. Anthony has desires for his own life, similar to his brothers, yet he yearns to make his parents happy. Regardless of Tony's life inclination, he has become boxed in to

     After reading the book, Bless Me Ultima, I realized the integral importance of religion and need for religion and answers to life’s questions. At first, while reading this book, I thought it was just about relationships and the meaning in them but as the plot progressed I realized the book, is more than that, it questions the structures that decide the rules, morals and values that society is composed of. There were three types of religion that I identified in the book that young Anthony chose to pursue. The first was the paganistic rituals of Ultima. Ultima came into the life of Tony at a very young age and had great influence n the child. Ultima saved the life of Lucas through Tony’s

Beauty is a subjective idea that focuses on the characteristics preferable to a single species that gives an advantage over another and at the cost of another species survival. Humans have created astounding empires with beautiful cities and monuments because they were the most progressive species that are able to do so because of their capacity for violence. Some empires fear for their survival, so they must eliminate any threat whether it be humans or other animals. The poem, “Thanks” by Yusef Komunyakaa, it symbolizes how humans can become single minded only driven by their own personal desires at the sake of anyone else. Humans naturally commit ugly atrocities to progress their own beauty, or at least idea of, and they instinctively oppose nature because mankind is the dark side of nature.

How do Tony's parents differ in their attitudes toward Tony's future? How does Ultima feels? - Although they both want the decision to be up to tony of what his future hold they both want different thing for him. His mother wants him to be a priest so that he can bring honor to his family while his father doesn’t want him to be a priest he mostly wants him to be free to rom the lands like how him and his family use to. As for Ultima doesn’t have a preference to what he is in the future but she does believe that it is his choice on what he wants to do with his life.

In the assigned writing, Stan Coppinger attempts to enlighten the reader about God’s character, based on his own personal experiences. I found it intriguing that Coppinger, who has been diagnosed with incurable cancer, claims his faith in God has grown following his diagnosis; in general, people tend to lose their faith when confronted with life altering obstacles. Although Coppinger’s story is inspiring, I am skeptical about the validity of his claim when it is expanded to incorporate the general population because much of his supporting evidence relies on his faith, which is entirely objective.

In “Bless Me Ultima” Antonio son of Maria Luna who is a religious woman and wants Tony to become a priest when he grows up and Gabriel Márez a former vaquero (Cowboy) who’s dream is to move to California with his family and work the farms. Since Tony is the only son in the house since his other three brothers Leon, Andrew and Eugene

To find one's identity can be a struggle for many; however author Rudolfo Anaya takes on that struggle to explain what it means to find yourself in his Mexican-American literature, Bless Me, Ultima. Rudolfo Anaya uses the theme of Identity and enlightenment and many other themes through the young protagonist Antonio Marez. Anaya is able to illustrate the journey and hardships of finding out who you are through the eyes of a child. Using the personal development of character and plot, he is able to build connection with the reader and story of the main character's coming of age. The novel is also based on the Anaya's actual childhood. At the same time, the novel shows many elements of fantasy and magic, with the myth of the Golden Carp, the

Areena Shrestha English 10C Ms. Hunter December 4, 2015 A man’s relationship with god can be challenged through tough conditions. Depending on the situation, a man’s belief in god can be changed negatively or positively. In the book Night, the author expresses more challenged relationship with god, rather than a calm relationship through a character's perspective. The curiosity of their god’s existence is lacking their thoughts, as they experience tough conditions each time.

The whole world has crashed. It is full of emptiness and miserable scenes on earth, where dead bodies are all around lying on the ground, demonstrating the massive destruction caused by people who attempt to conquer nature. For decades, every creature except for humans has been extinct; everyone who struggles to survive wants to murder and rob others, and some people even choose to practice cannibalism in order to survive. Humanity and morality established through billions of years by human ancestors since the Paleolithic period fade with the dignity of every individual. God is no longer above this world; he is tired of people’s unconsciousness and immoderation.

He struggles to get out his prayer, because he is unsure that he will be

Some times the question of “Where is God” surfaces with all the adversities, and I find myself asking “what is God doing for all these people who are suffering?” But however amidst all the issues I know that He is there, and all these problems and conflicts do not change the fact that God exists, and I still have hope for change for these suffering people no matter what the circumstance.

The extent of his damage includes his broken form of rationalization, his already established damaged relationships, his lack of self accountability, his judgement of those around him. From the beginning of the novel, it is shown that Tony and his friends are different because of their philosophical ideas and discussions. Although nothing is wrong with philosophical questioning and reasoning, the problem arises when every answer to every question must be explained fundamentally. Philosophy has unanswered questions all the time, if it did not then there would be no more questions to discuss because everyone would already have all of the answers. Tony taught that he needed an answer to every question. With this mindset he could not possibly love or form relationships properly because everything that he did had to have rhyme or reason. Where there is induction and deduction he could only make out deduction. This is one of the bases of his damage, rationalizing things that have no answer to their questions. What arises falsely as an answer when there is none, is an assumption. “Old Joe Hunt said… that mental states can be inferred from actions… Whereas in the private life, I think the converse is true: that you can infer past actions from current mental states” (48). Tony believes that you can recognize one’s entire complex lifetime, simply by looking at who

Cleansing and rejuvenation are themes that are suggested by the author, and symbolized through the use of water. In one of his dreams, Tony refers to the waters of the river, " I must lift the muddy waters of the river in blessing to our new home!" (Anaya 26) The cleansing qualities of the river show Tony's desire to put the tragic happenings of his life behind him, and begin anew. His desire is to be washed clean from the haunting memories if Lupito's death. Another reference to water is the waters of baptism. In Tony's dream his parents argue about what water he was baptized in. "Oh please tell me which is the water that runs through my veins." (Anaya120) The waters of baptism represent cleansing, but in the dream his parents argue over whether he was baptized with the holy water of the moon, or the salt water from the oceans. This represents his parent's pulling him in two opposite directions. Later in this dream Ultima explains to both of Tony's parents that in reality both of their waters are the same. This shows that Tony is rejuvenated by the idea that he dose not have to choose between one parent or another, but can take the best of both of them. Because of the water Tony is able to

Tony is an indian. In the beginning, you get the impression, that he is a sweet, innocent and caring boy. He’s very helpful but also very naive. Through the story, it gets more and more clear, that there is something mentally wrong with Tony. He keeps believing, that the cop is something that his parents warned him about in his childhood, wich he calls ‘a masked dancer’. His parents told him not to look into the eyes, so in Tony’s head, the cop’s sunglasses equals the masked dancer’s mask. And Tony ends up killing the cop, and telling Leon that everything is O.K., it’s killed, they somethimes take on strange forms. He also compares the cop’s raised billy club to the witch’s raised human-bone in his dream.