Bless Me, Ultima: Novel Summary: Chapter 3
The next morning, still pondering the fate of Lupito's soul, Antonio speculates about hell and Purgatory and the forgiveness of God. He knows that the men who shot Lupito committed a dreadful sin. Still puzzling over these matters, he goes with his family to morning mass. The church is the biggest building he has ever seen. Before mass begins, he goes to the side of the church where his friends hang around. These are Ernie, Horse, Bones, Samuel, Lloyd, the Vitamin Kid, Florence, and Abel. Most of them are several years older than Antonio, who has not yet begun to attend school. The boys indulge in horseplay and discuss the events of the previous night. Antonio succeeds in throwing Horse to the ground in a wrestling match. Horse does not mind too much, and that day Antonio becomes a real member of their gang.
Analysis
The conflict between Antonio's mother and father is prominent again, when Antonio describes their Sunday morning arguments. Gabriel is not reconciled to leaving the llano and working on the highways in Guadalupe, and he blames his wife because she is from a farming family. He thinks that is why she keeps him shackled to one piece of land. The parents also disagree over religion. Antonio's mother is a staunch Catholic who wants her youngest son to become a priest, but her husband is not much of a believer and holds a low opinion of priests.
This chapter also contains an example of what is called foreshadowing. Foreshadowing occurs when an author creates expectations or sets up an explanation of later developments. In this chapter, there is a moment that foreshadows later events. It happens when the family goes to church. People they pass on the way remark nervously about Ultima, knowing she is a curandera. One voice utters the word bruja (witch) about Ultima. This accusation will later prove central to the unfolding of the plot. Its unobtrusive appearance here helps to prepare the reader.
Bless Me Ultima Study Guide (Choose to Continue)
- Bless Me, Ultima Study Guide
- Summary
- chapter1
- Novel Summary: Chapter 2
- Novel Summary: Chapter 3
- Novel Summary: Chapter 4
- Novel Summary: Chapter 5
- Novel Summary: Chapter 6
- Novel Summary: Chapter 7
- Novel Summary: Chapter 8
- Novel Summary: Chapter 9
- Novel Summary: Chapter 10
- Novel Summary: Chapter 11
- Novel Summary: Chapter 12
- Novel Summary: Chapter 13
- Novel Summary: Chapter 14
- Novel Summary: Chapter 15
- Novel Summary: Chapter 16
- Novel Summary: Chapter 17
- Novel Summary: Chapter 18
- Novel Summary: Chapter 19
- Novel Summary: Chapter 20
- Novel Summary: Chapter 21
- Novel Summary: Chapter 22
- Character Profiles
- Metaphor Analysis
- Theme Analysis
- Top Ten Quotes
- Biography: Rudolfo A. Anaya
Top Novelguides
Apology A Christmas Carol A Clean Well Lighted Place A Clockwork Orange A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court A Doll's House A Farewell To Arms A Hope in the Unseen A Lost Lady A Man For All Seasons A Midsummer Night's Dream A Modest Proposal A Passage to India A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Raisin in the Sun A Room With a View A Separate Peace A Streetcar Named Desire A Tale of Two Cities A Thousand Splendid Suns A Tree Grows In Brooklyn A Walk to Remember A Wrinkle In Time Absalom-Absalom Across Five Aprils Adam Bede Adventures of Augie March Agamemnon Alas Babylon Alice in Wonderland All My Sons All Quiet on the Western Front All the Kings Men All the Pretty Horses All's Well That Ends Well An American Tragedy An Enemy of the People And Then There Were None Angela's Ashes Animal Farm Anna Karenina Anthem Antigone Sophocles Antigone Antony and Cleopatra April Morning Aristotles Ethics Aristotle's Poetics Arms and the Man Around the World in Eighty Days____________________________________
Top Novelguides
Quotes By Topic
Quote of the dayReports & Essays
Bless Me Ultima Study Guide (Choose to Continue)
- Bless Me, Ultima Study Guide
- Summary
- chapter1
- Novel Summary: Chapter 2
- Novel Summary: Chapter 3
- Novel Summary: Chapter 4
- Novel Summary: Chapter 5
- Novel Summary: Chapter 6
- Novel Summary: Chapter 7
- Novel Summary: Chapter 8
- Novel Summary: Chapter 9
- Novel Summary: Chapter 10
- Novel Summary: Chapter 11
- Novel Summary: Chapter 12
- Novel Summary: Chapter 13
- Novel Summary: Chapter 14
- Novel Summary: Chapter 15
- Novel Summary: Chapter 16
- Novel Summary: Chapter 17
- Novel Summary: Chapter 18
- Novel Summary: Chapter 19
- Novel Summary: Chapter 20
- Novel Summary: Chapter 21
- Novel Summary: Chapter 22
- Character Profiles
- Metaphor Analysis
- Theme Analysis
- Top Ten Quotes
- Biography: Rudolfo A. Anaya
Bless Me Ultima Study Guide
Choose to Continue- Bless Me, Ultima Study Guide
- Summary
- chapter1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
- Character Profiles
- Metaphor Analysis
- Theme Analysis
- Top Ten Quotes
- Rudolfo A. Anaya
Our Networks