Bless Me Ultima Background Scavenger Hunt
Across
- 2. the name of the character who will guide Antonio on his spiritual journey throughout the novel
- 3. Magical realism combines _______ and psychological reality
- 5. another word for a “coming of age” story
- 7. the character that represents being settled; wants Antonio (the main character) to be a priest (two words)
- 8. the blending of two languages (Spanish and ____) in the story helps the reader feel/understand the confusion Antonio feels as he navigates two “worlds” (his home life and his school life)
- 11. Which war was happening when the story takes place (three words)
- 13. another name for a spiritual healer
- 14. the vast, open plains (field) that the story takes place on
- 15. Magical realism combines _____ happenings alongside realistic narratives
- 17. Spanish word for cowboy
Down
- 1. the character that feels a calling to being free-spirited and restless (two words)
- 4. this is the language of Antonio’s home
- 6. Native Americans believed all living things share a connection with the ____
- 9. Mexican folktale about a lady who murdered her children and is doomed to walk the countryside at night, calling for her children (two words)
- 10. in Christianity, people confused curanderas as ____ (plural)
- 12. magical realism is different from fantasy because it is grounded in ____ ____, unlike science fiction (two words)
- 16. which religion did the missionaries spread and try to teach the indigenous people in the lands that eventually became New Mexico and the Southwest United States