The Ilano In Antonio's Bless Me, Ultima

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“Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. (261) In Bless Me, Ultima the Ilano is a plain in the traditional Mexican community. Antonio’s mother is found to be a farmer’s daughter and not a woman of the llano; she couldn’t see the beauty in the llano. Meanwhile, Antonio’s father loved the llano and didn’t want to leave. “The move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom.” (2) The significance of the family moving to Guadeloupe is because there is a better opportunity there, and a school for them. Antonio’s father is really hurt and his mother has to persuade him to move and leave the llano. There is no room for him to keep his animals in town, so he had to sell his small herd, and gave his horse to a good friend. “Why two people as opposite as my father and my mother had married I do not know. Their blood and their ways had kept them at odds, and yet for all this, we were happy.” (29) Antonio was only six when we began…show more content…
(261) In Bless Me, Ultima the Ilano is a plain in the traditional Mexican community. Antonio’s mother is found to be a farmer’s daughter and not a woman of the llano; she couldn’t see the beauty in the llano. Meanwhile, Antonio’s father loved the llano and didn’t want to leave. “The move lowered my father in the esteem of his compadres, the other vaqueros of the llano who clung tenaciously to their way of life and freedom.” (2) The significance of the family moving to Guadeloupe is because there is a better opportunity there, and a school for them. Antonio’s father is really hurt and his mother has to persuade him to move and leave the llano. There is no room for him to keep his animals in town, so he had to sell his small herd, and gave his horse to a good

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