Evelyn Gonzalez
5th Period
Graham
Bless Me, Ultima Chapters 7-9
Chapter 7 pg 60…. “They wanted to come home together; they had gone to war together.”
POV
pg 61…. “Here by the catfish hole where you taught me to fish. Here by the tall reeds where the blood of Lupito washes into the river.”
Symbolism
pg 61…. “Then there was a loud crashing of branches behind me I turned and saw the three dark figures looming over me.”
Creepy
pg 62…. “There! Just coming over the slope of the hill were three dark figures.”
Foreshadowing
pg 64…. “My mother cared for them like a mother cares for her chicks...My father was happy and full of life, regenerated by talk of the coming summer and moving to California. And I was busy at school, driven by desire to make mine the magic of letters and numbers.”
POV
Chapter 8 pg 65…. “They were like turgid animals who did things mechanically.”
Simile
pg 65…. “They were like lost men who went and came and said nothing.”
Simile
pg 66…. “...the Marez blood in us that touches us with the urge to wander. Like the restless, seeking sea.” Symbolism pg 67…. “The war had changed them. Now they needed to lead their own lives.”
Characterization
pg 69…. “They were like wild bulls running down the goat path towards town.”
Simile
pg 69….”I didn’t know whether to cry or to laugh with them. There was an empty feeling inside, not because they spanked me, but because they would be gone again. They would be lost again.”
Tension

Chapter 9 pg 70…. “It is written on the waters of the river that you shall lose your souls to hell if you enter!”
Foreshadowing
pg 72…. “They knew that it was within the power of the father to curse his sons, and ay! a curse laid on a disobedient son or daughter was irrevocable.”
Tension
pg 72…. “The same wandering blood in his