Bless Me, Ultima: The Cultural Distress of a Young Society
             An answer to the discussion question of whether or not there is a
             defined border culture would need a great number of years in field research, but
             we can also observe a few of the characteristics of such border culture just by
             looking at scholastic essays and books related to the topic. Within the
             research that I did, I found a number of scholars who, while defining the border,
             mention all the specific or special characteristics of this new emerging society,
             but who also very few times defined it as such. In the book that I researched,
             Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya, we find many of those characteristics.
             There is already much work on this piece of literature, therefore, I decided to
             present my research and study in two ways. First, I will give a personal
             analysis of the work, in which I will discuss the different topics and
             parallelisms that I believe are related to an emerging border culture, and
             second, I will discuss and complete analysis made by Roberto Cantu, published
             in The Iden tification and Analysis of Chicano Literature.
             The novel by Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me, Ultima, was printed in June 1972,
             but won the first price in the Second Annual Premio Quinto Sol Literary Award in
             The main characters of the novel are Antonio, his father, mother, two
             sisters, three brothers, Tenorio and his three daughters, and Ultima. The
             argument presents how a child, (Antonio), matures in one year, thanks to the
             different episodes that he goes through. Antonio, a seven year old child,
             narrates in first person, and describes the events that changed his life from
             the moment that Ultima arrived at his house. During the beginning of the book,
             his thoughts and actions are typical of such age, but as the events take place,
             Antonio changes and matures incredible fast through the text. It is even hard
             to find ...