In the first few chapters Hurston introduces the characters and the good of Ultima. Antonio also begins to form a stronger bond with her over the summer by studying her techniques with plants. Later in the novel Antonio begins to question his relationship with God. This is also the part where Antonio learns his mother's dream for him to become a priest. "Once I told my mother about my dreams, and she said they were visions of God and she was happy, because her own dreams was that I should grow up and become a priest." In chapter one Antonio takes his first steps toward his loss of innocence, "The brown water would be stained with blood, forever and ever and ever." Lupito's death is the first time that he is faced with death, and begins his questioning of God. Antonio also attends school for the first year, briefly described and rather unimportant, he skips from first to second grade making his mother proud for his studies and helping to reinforce h

The entrance of god into his life did not answer the questions that were plaguing him. In the final scenes of the novel the evil of Tenerio overcomes all as he first attempts to kill Antonio, and then goes to kill Ultima. Antonio arrives just in time to see the killing of the owl - Ultmia's spirit that was tied to her when she was a child by the wise man who taught her how to live with the land and plants. Antonio then goes to bury her spirit in his own peaceful burial under a forked juniper tree as she instructed. By being blessed by her it shows that he has possibly grown from the idea that he is tied to the church by being a deep spiritual individual and accepting that there may be more powers than that of god. Ultima allowed him to see the world differently, and accept her powers especially in Antonio proclamation, "Bless Me Ultima."

The second time that Antonio experienced death occurs as Narcisco runs through the blizzard to warn Ultima of Tenerio's relentless violent threats as his second daughter was dying. Antonio did not have time to run for a prie

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