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Culture In Bless Me Ultima Novel

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Bless me ultima novel A person language help determine what culture they do or what they celebrate with their family. Some people language determines what kind tradition the do to celebrate it. Their language is hard to determine their culture because some languages have different cultures with the same language like in bless me ultima that antonio family praise to the virgin and some other families are catholic and some other families are christians. Bless me ultima talk about a seven year old boy who lives in new mexico who is still learning about life. Antonio though the plains was just a normal field of grass but until Ultima came antonio saw the beauty of the plains unfolded from his eyes. Ultima always says that the townspeople thought

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