Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya

The Reality and Feelings Behind the Fiction Rudolfo Anaya incorporates elements from his childhood and his emotions into the masterpiece, Bless Me, Ultima. As you read deeper and deeper into the book, you feel as though you are looking into the memories of the writer. You feel what the main character, Antonio, feels and you see what he sees. The book goes from being a normal, fictional reading to an actual experience through the author's …

…similar childhood experience. Catholicism, Paganism, witchcraft, curanderismo, and elements brought in from the author's experiences combine to make a literary masterpiece. The many realistic aspects of this novel balance out the very fictional aspects to make the reading more believable. When you can feel all of the different emotions running through the character's veins and see all of the extraordinary events he witnesses, it is impossible not to wonder whether or not everything truly happened.