La Curandera

"I bless you in the name of all that is good and strong and beautiful Antonio. Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if despair enter your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and the owls sing in the hills. I shall be with you-,"Ultima told Antonio in the book Bless Me, Ultima bu Rudolfo A. Anaya.
In thbook, a boy named Antonio Experiences a lot of deaths and encounters confusion about his religion. He has a mysterious grandmother, Ultima, that's a curandera but the town's people mistake her by a witch. After the death of Tenorio's daughter town's barer's daughter, he tries to get revenge and threatens to bring death on Ultima throughout the book.
Ultima was put to the test to determine if she was a witch by walking through a door with a cross on top. As she walks through her owl flies down and pokes Tenorio's eye. This is not only my favorite part of the book but is still questionable. It distracts the audience as well as the antagonist into thinking Ultima isn't a witch by focusing on a smaller event instead of her.
"The consequences of life can be overcome by the magical strength the lies in the human heart," is the theme to Antion in Bless Me, Ultima as well as for the audience. Antonio realizes near the end of the book of what Ultima has been trying to teach him. Someone can experience bad things such as Antonio did by witnessing friends die, but they can bloom and make it better with the magical strength that is found in the heart. Bless Me, Ultima is an amazing book to read! It gives you a different view on how a young boy encounters obstacles in his life. I rate this book a 5 because of its intense events and the wonderful details of the