Children believe what their parents tell them but as they get older they start to question that which used to be unquestionable. Bless Me, Ultima is a novel by Rudolfo Anaya about a young Chicano boy, Antonio Juan Marez y Luna, who is growing up and seeing the world for how cruel it really is. A wise old curandera, or faith healer, Ultima, arrives just before Tony receives his first glimpse into the world of …showed first 75 words of 1665 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1665 total…religions, must change with them or be lost in time. The Catholic religion failed to change into what Tony needed, and so did the pagan religion, so he stopped belieiving in them; however he saw Ultima’s religion as a new unchartered way that he could create himself. At the end of Tony’s spiritual journey he finds himself lost in a world that is prophesied to end and without a true belief in anything.