Bless Me, Ultima (Ch. 1-7)

After we got this book in class I did something any reader would naturally do when they recieve a new book: I skimmed the first page. Now I gotta tell you, by the time I finished the second paragraph I already had a bad feeling about the book. Being a french student didn't help my comprehension of the spanish words and phrases tossed into the story. Once I began getting used to the characters and their dispostions, the story became a little more interesting and the character's actions and reactions became more predictable. The short arguements between Maria and Gabriel (Antonio's mother and father) could be predicted and the topic they normally fought about, Antonio's future as either a priest or a vaquero, came to be expected. Ultima became the strong, but elderly grandmother-like presence in the book. She quickly became my favorite character, there was just something about the respect she had in the village, and the calmness that she always had even the most chaotic situations that I liked about her. As I continued on further and further into the story, I found myself liking it more and more. Although no particularly big events have happened yet, the story still seems like it could get very interesting in the future based on the characters. After proving my first opinions of the book wrong, hopefully the characters will continue to grow and the story will become even more interesting.