Is Maturity based on age or the things you have experienced? In the coming of age novel ¨Bless me Ultima’’ by Rudolfo Anaya, Antonio is a six year old who was born in a small village of Pastura, New Mexico. Antonio is to choose between whether he will be a vaquero or a priest, and throughout the story he witnesses multiple deaths and things a child should not see. Ultima comes into Antonio’s life and takes him along with her to help the people that are cursed, but ultima also teaches him how to make good decisions and help him with life lessons. At the end of the novel, Antonio matures from his childhood to adulthood because he takes on adult responsibilities, he can control his emotions, and he makes moral decisions. At the end of the novel, Antonio matures from childhood to adulthood because he takes on adult responsibilities. According to the book, Antonio ordered, “Take them to their room,” I said …show more content…
People may think that he is irresponsible and makes bad decisions like every other kid would. They would say that he has not matured by making moral choices because of how young he is. But in reality he makes choices by learning how to live in harmony with nature and taking time for himself to help out with family. In the novel Antonio lives in harmony with nature and is taking time for himself at the same time. “All August I worked in the field and orchards. I watched closely how they worked the earth, the respect they showed it, and the way they cared for the living.” Now a kid at a young age wouldn’t be observing how to take care of nature or be working in the fields and orchards all summer. Most people would agree that kids would have fun like going outside, running around, playing with their toys, or playing with their family. But Antonio doesn’t do this. So most might agree that Antonio can’t make moral decisions because most kids his age do not have adulthood
Learning to distinguish good vs evil and manage to resolve the conflicts of two different family cultures, he must learn chose his own fate. This would be a lesson for Antonio to learned has life will take away his innocent do to traumatic events that will occur
How can one woman completely turn the life of a young boy upside down and change his life forever? In Bless Me, Ultima, Ultima, an old curandera who leads a boy, Antonio, on possibly the most spectacular and terrifying adventure he will ever experience in his life. Antonio, the protagonist in this novel, is a young boy who receives help from Ultima in order to find his own identity. " Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if the despair enters your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and the owls sing in the hills.
But the unforgettable, terrible things that happen to him and his family change him. He goes from wanting to be an adult but not really trying to be one, to being an adult without even noticing it. Josef starts out in the book being self interested and greedy, convincing himself he is an adult only because of his age, determined to prove his
The children worked hard and eventually it paid off when they were able to afford extravagant materials and care for their own family, but they forgot to show their love and affection to the people who contributed to their success, their parents. At the end of the passage, Rodriguez purposely placed his realization of how far he had grown apart from his family, by mentioning his
The pressure from his family and peers to become a priest forces him to conform to their ideas however as he meets people with diverse backgrounds he begins to question inwardly. Antonio’s
We see the protagonist mature throughout the story by listening to man announce the time. This provided the protagonist, as a young boy, a sense of certainty, reassurance and constant.
He is starts to see that being respectable is worth more than be rich. When the play ends he is a man that redeemed himself by overcoming trials. He goes from being hot-blooded to being gentle and able to talk things out. He goes from being immature to being able to be the head of the house and ends up making decisions that benefit all of the Youngers. He changed because the only way he would have successfully made it through the events in the play was to fix himself as a
Antonio was expected so much of, by the age of six, he is already
On the other hand, Guido and is son have a very close relationship, and Guido does everything in his power to care for his son as a shepherd would protect a sheep in the midst of danger. In the film, Joshua talks about his father and his experience as a “…gift to me-this was his sacrifice-“showing his gratefulness and the significance of his father’s influence on him (Benigni). The relationship each son has with his father influences their viewed
Maturity is the feeling of needing to prove that one is sophisticated and old enough to do certain things. In the short story “Growing Up,” Maria’s family went on a vacation while she stayed at home, but when she heard there was a car crash that happened near where her family was staying, she gets worried and thinks it is all her fault for trying to act mature and angering her father. Society wants to prove how mature they are and they do so by trying to do things that older people do and the symbols, conflict, and metaphors in the text support this theme. First and foremost, in “Growing Up,” Gary Soto’s theme is how society acts older than they are and that they just want to prove they are mature. Maria wants to stay home instead of going
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, maturity means having reached the most advanced stage in a process. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiese, Eliezer is taken to a concentration camp at an early age for the majority of his youth. In this camp, he was forced to mature fast and faced many hardships that shaped and molded his identity to make him the person he grew up to be. By the end of the book, you can't even recognize him as the little boy from Romania. In Night, Wiesel demonstrates how the challenges he went through matured him into the man he became.
As they go through this stage young people will begin to solve problems more easily and have an appreciation of other people’s views and opinions. However as they are still inexperienced in life a young person may appear immature at times with regards to their ways of thinking and speech. During the Emotional Development stage, a young person will begin to spend less time with their parents and want to spend more time with their friends socialising instead. A young person may also feel conflicted at times, as they will want the affection from parents, however this is usually short lived as the young person will then also reject it when it is given.
In the stories, "The Lie," by Kurt Vonnegut and "Barn Burning," by William Faulkner, the main characters, Eli Remenzel & Colonel Sartoris (Sarty) Snopes, both mature from childhood into adulthood. This growth and maturity develops from having family support and a stable upbringing or perhaps their growth happened within their own self-consciousness. The main characters, in both these stories, use their inner maturity to be strong and courageous and make good decisions as they are growing up. In the story, "The Lie," Eli matures into adulthood.
Albert D. Saba Mr. Amoroso English 12 AP Period: 3 LAP Topic: 2 BLESS ME, ULTIMA The Classic by Rudolfo Anaya Saba Page 1. The powerful force of a Latino family begins with the basis of the strength in a man. In the novel Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya, Antonio Márez a six-year-old begins to wonder if his destiny lies in being a vaquero or a priest. Inside Antonio, he has the blood of two different customs streaming through his veins. Is there an outlet to which can help you view your own life or guide you through it?
As we grow older, we learn new things, whether about others or about ourselves. We become more mature and do things to better ourselves as a person. Maturity is not measured by age, however. It is measured by how you react to given situations. Raymond’s Run, by Tina Cade Bambara is a prime example of growing maturity.