Bless Me Ultima Chapter XI Outline

Paraphrase:
Cico takes Antonio to see the Golden Carp. He also tells Tony the
story of the mermaid and the lake, in which the mermaid will try to
lure you into the lake with her music, and you will die. And when the
Golden Carp comes back, he will punish the sinners, by flooding them.
This makes Antonio question his own God. As usual there is another
dream, in which his mother says that Antonio was baptized with the
water from the moon, and his father says it was with the salt water
from the ocean, and the heaves start to rumble. Then Ultima comes,
and explains how they are both the same, and the heavens calm.

Techniques:
  · The dream is a good writing technique, because it couldn't be
    presented as well any other way. They would have to write it as
    though he was talking to himself, or somebody else, which might
    then be taken out of context.
  · I think I can use characterization as a technique, because we
    learn a little more about Antonio. He is not as stable about
    religion as we might have thought, because he so easily
    questions his religion.