Bless Me Ultima Background Scavenger Hunt

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Across
  1. 2. the name of the character who will guide Antonio on his spiritual journey throughout the novel
  2. 3. Magical realism combines _______ and psychological reality
  3. 5. another word for a “coming of age” story
  4. 7. the character that represents being settled; wants Antonio (the main character) to be a priest (two words)
  5. 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)
  6. 11. Which war was happening when the story takes place (three words)
  7. 13. another name for a spiritual healer
  8. 14. the vast, open plains (field) that the story takes place on
  9. 15. Magical realism combines _____ happenings alongside realistic narratives
  10. 17. Spanish word for cowboy
Down
  1. 1. the character that feels a calling to being free-spirited and restless (two words)
  2. 4. this is the language of Antonio’s home
  3. 6. Native Americans believed all living things share a connection with the ____
  4. 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)
  5. 10. in Christianity, people confused curanderas as ____ (plural)
  6. 12. magical realism is different from fantasy because it is grounded in ____ ____, unlike science fiction (two words)
  7. 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