Bless Me Ultima seems to me as if its using many different strategies in order to draw a reader's attention in initially. It blatantly begins with frequent usage of Spanish phrases, such "llano", "que lastima", and including some full throttle sentences in Spanish, such as, "Esta sola ya no queda gente en el pueblito de Las Pasturas." Although I myself have been taking Spanish for many years, throughout these early chapters, I have come across many words and phrases where I am constantly researching the definitions of the words, no matter how much Spanish background I have personally. This left me confused many times, as I would constantly be forgetting the meaning of each word and found myself re-googling each word, slowing the process of reading down considerably each time I google-translated a word, phrase, or sentence.
At this point, it seems as if conflicting points in this novel will be between Ultima's magic and Antonio's religion. Antonio's parents, especially his mother, present their intense expectations of Antonio to prevail with his religion and religious beliefs and become a priest when he is of age. Viewing Luptio's death seems to begin to pose as an issue in the novel, playing a major role with his trust in the outside world and as an issue within his family, affecting his mental state in a permanent manor. Surely his view of the outter world has been skewed after such a morbid experience, and could possibly foreshadow future events to come in the novel. Antonio's personality seems to be that of a typical 7 year old, yet he has already faced great plague within the opening pages of this novel. Surely he faces greater challenges in the future, which could eventually lead to a change in character.
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