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| Title | : | Bless Me, Ultima |
| Author | : | Rudolfo Anaya |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 1999 by Grand Central Publishing (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Magical Realism. Young Adult. Academic. School. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature |
Rudolfo Anaya
Paperback | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 3.77 | 26034 Users | 2241 Reviews
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Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima enters his life. She is a curandera, one who heals with herbs and magic. 'We cannot let her live her last days in loneliness,' says Antonio's mother. 'It is not the way of our people,' agrees his father. And so Ultima comes to live with Antonio's family in New Mexico. Soon Tony will journey to the threshold of manhood. Always, Ultima watches over him. She graces him with the courage to face childhood bigotry, diabolical possession, the moral collapse of his brother, and too many violent deaths. Under her wise guidance, Tony will probe the family ties that bind him, and he will find in himself the magical secrets of the pagan past—a mythic legacy equally as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America in which he has been schooled. At each turn in his life there is Ultima who will nurture the birth of his soul.
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| Original Title: | Bless Me, Ultima |
| ISBN: | 0446675369 (ISBN13: 9780446675369) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Antonio Marez, Ultima, la Grande, Tenorio, Narciso |
| Setting: | United States of America New Mexico(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Quinto Sol |
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Ratings: 3.77 From 26034 Users | 2241 ReviewsEvaluate Out Of Books Bless Me, Ultima
I read this my sophomore year of high school, late 90s. Those were the days! HIT THE BOOKS!Wow! What a stunningly beautiful book! I hope to reread this someday just for the descriptions of the natural world. Ultima may now be one of my most favorite fictional characters...oh and how I wish I knew more about her! In many ways she reminded me of my own grandmother. I love the way she listened to the earth and I loved her for her quiet strength. Antonio reminded me so much of myself and the questions I began asking a young age, the questions I still ask. I loved Antonio for his awe in
Rudolfo Anaya reconstructs our understanding of Chicano culture. From the outset he insists on colloquialisms and idioms voiced in untranslated Spanish. This linguistic choice is a subtle indicator of a growing disconnect between the non-English speaking older generation and their English language schooled children. An almost medieval Catholicism pervades the story. Six-year-old Antonio is torn by the opposing ambitions of his parents. His mother believes he is marked for the priesthood. She
How do I begin writing a review for this book? I guess I'll start with a story of how I came to read "Bless Me Ultima" and why I ended up reading it again in recent considerations (2013).I read "Bless Me Ultima" for the first time in my AP Literature and Composition class. My teacher at the time had a list of books we could choose to do reports on and this was one of the choices that jumped out at me. It also surprised me that it was banned from many curriculum in different schools and
Actual rating: 2.5 stars.This is a hard review to write. I read Bless Me, Ultima because it is frequently challenged, often banned, sometimes even burned. I read it because it has been banished from Tucson classrooms and school libraries. I read it because I live in a majority Mexican-American community in a part of Arizona that until relatively recently was still part of the state of Sonora, Mexico. And I read it because many readers have praised it.Anaya wrote his novel in 1972. Copies were
"From my mother I had learned that man is of the earth, that his clay feet are part of the ground that nourishes him, and that this is the inextricable mixture that gives man his measure of safety and security. Because man plants in the earth he believes in the miracle of birth, and he provides a home for his family, and he builds a church to preserve his faith and the soul that is bound to his flesh, his clay. But from my father and Ultima I had learned that the greater immortality is in the
I read Bless me, Utltima as part of the Big Read going on in my city. As a naturalist, I enjoyed the natural thread that runs through the book. The novel's story line takes place in New Mexico just after World War II and follows the maturation of grade-schooler Antonio, the youngest son in the Márez family. As Tony ages, he witnesses several tragic events and is forced to deal with complicated moral issues. He also must choose between the agrarian, devout heritage of his mother and the largely
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