Bless Me Ultima Book Vs
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Bless me Ultima Book vs. Movie
Bless Me Ultima, in both text and film, share many similarities and differences. The storyline develops as Ultima comes to live with the Marez y Luna family during the last of her days. Antonio, the young boy, witnesses the deaths of Lupitio and Narciso causing him to face the reality that everything living is everything that dies. The similarity throughout the book and movie, is that Antonio constantly struggles between choosing his mother’s wish for him to become a priest or becoming vaquero like the men on his father’s side of the family. Each of these choices were equally honorable. There is also an ongoing battle between good and evil in the village; Ultima, representing the good being, and the evil of Tenorio and his witch daughters. In the end, as in all good stories, good destroys evil and Antonio recognizes that change has brought him peace. He understands wisdom and has a better understanding of his reality.
On the other hand, some of the differences between the book and the movie are the followings: the Golden Carp was left out compared to the written literature. In the book, the Golden Carp was God-like to Antonio where he was constantly going back and forth between the beliefs of God and the ways of the Golden Carp. When Antonio sees the Golden Carp for the first time, he starts to question his own religion. However, in the movie, there was no recognizable alternative religion that forced Antonio to question his religion. Also, the second spell cast on the Tellez family ranch was omitted from the movie. In the book, Mr. Tellez goes to Gabriel’s house to ask for help from Ultima to lift up the curse. Another, difference in the movie is the further development of Narciso’s character. Narciso was a young man whose wife died early, who had a gift for growing in a hidden house with a garden. Also, when Tenorio kills Narciso is raining instead of snowing. As a result, movies based on books
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Bless me Ultima Book vs. Movie
Bless Me Ultima, in both text and film, share many similarities and differences. The storyline develops as Ultima comes to live with the Marez y Luna family during the last of her days. Antonio, the young boy, witnesses the deaths of Lupitio and Narciso causing him to face the reality that everything living is everything that dies. The similarity throughout the book and movie, is that Antonio constantly struggles between choosing his mother’s wish for him to become a priest or becoming vaquero like the men on his father’s side of the family. Each of these choices were equally honorable. There is also an ongoing battle between good and evil in the village; Ultima, representing the good being, and the evil of Tenorio and his witch daughters. In the end, as in all good stories, good destroys evil and Antonio recognizes that change has brought him peace. He understands wisdom and has a better understanding of his reality.
On the other hand, some of the differences between the book and the movie are the followings: the Golden Carp was left out compared to the written literature. In the book, the Golden Carp was God-like to Antonio where he was constantly going back and forth between the beliefs of God and the ways of the Golden Carp. When Antonio sees the Golden Carp for the first time, he starts to question his own religion. However, in the movie, there was no recognizable alternative religion that forced Antonio to question his religion. Also, the second spell cast on the Tellez family ranch was omitted from the movie. In the book, Mr. Tellez goes to Gabriel’s house to ask for help from Ultima to lift up the curse. Another, difference in the movie is the further development of Narciso’s character. Narciso was a young man whose wife died early, who had a gift for growing in a hidden house with a garden. Also, when Tenorio kills Narciso is raining instead of snowing. As a result, movies based on books