Month: October 2008

Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel narrated by Tony Marez, a young boy living with his family in Guadalupe, New Mexico in the 1940s. […]

The novel is set in the plains of New Mexico in the 1940s, during World War II. The first part of the book takes place […]

Bless Me, Ultima is a coming-of-age novel that centers on Tony’s quest for personal and cultural identity. Perhaps the most prominent theme is that of […]

Much of what Tony learns about his past and his future is revealed to him in dream sequences in which Anaya uses stream of consciousness […]

Anaya covers themes in his novels that have had significance in his own life. But while Tony’s experiences mirror Anaya’s own experiences, they also typify […]

1. Why was Maria particularly bothered by her sons’ exhibiting what she considered inappropriate behavior around Ultima? 2. Why was it so important for Tony […]

1. Using Ultima as an example, define the role of the shaman in Mexican American societies. 2. The Legend of the Golden Carp has similarities […]

Anaya’s books attempt to answer some of life’s most perplexing questions: how we can understand the nature of God and how we can we find […]