Innocence In Bless Me Ultima

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“You are innocent until you understand...”(71). In Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, Anaya writes about a young boy who witnesses terrible events and has to learn to understand the inevitability of said events. Antonio Márez, due to many outside events, is forced to question all of the morals and beliefs he has been taught and by doing so, he’s also forced to lose his innocence. Early on in the book, Tony learns to deal with death. The first time Tony bears witness to a death was with Lupito. Lupito was a normal man but the war had made him sick. He was delusional enough to mistakenly shoot the sheriff, he thought the sheriff was a japanese soldier, and refuse to stop firing, causing his death. Tony was full of questions after seeing Lupito killed, would his soul go to hell? He had committed a sin after all. Would his father also be damned to hell, seeing as his father was one of the men who shot Lupito. Without a clear answer Tony begins to question God and what is immoral and moral. Continuing on with death,Tony was physically sick, at Florence’s death and was …show more content…
A new god introduced to Tony by Samuel, at first Tony is incredulous at the idea of a new god,”A new god? I could not believe this strange story, and yet I could not disbelieve Samuel.”(81). Samuel has so much faith and certainty that the Golden Carp is a real god, it causes Tony to question his own beliefs,” The root of everything I had ever believed in seemed shaken. If the Golden Carp was a god, who was the man on the cross? The Virgin? Was my mother praying to the wrong God?”(81). Whereas, God did not answer Tony during his first communion, Tony has seen the Golden Carp,”Then the Golden Carp swam by Cico… I knew I had witnessed a miraculous thing, the appearance of a pagan god.”(114). The Golden Carp causes Tony to question the God he has believed in all of his life because, God has not directly answered

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