Why is bless me ultima a banned book

March , Search form Search form Search. Dec 12 Free Expression. Top Articles. Seema Mehta is a reporter who covered the campaign, the fourth presidential race she has written about for the Los Angeles Times. She started at the Times in and recently completed a Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Review: I am a bit torn when it comes to this book. I actually had to read Bless Me, Ultima simultaneously with another book because it was so hard for me to get completely drawn into the story.

While Bless Me, Ultima is not solely a religious book, it can certainly be considered a religious coming of age novel.

Several schools have also cited irreverence toward God, anti-Catholic angles, and pagan content as justification for bans. Some people might also think that Bless Me Ultima is too sexually explicit due to prostitutes in the book which was Rossie and the girls in her house but it also did not give details about the prostitutes only that they were prostitutes.

Not everyone is in accord with this view, some people like Laura Bush said it was on the must-read list and she and other people strongly thinks that Bless Me Ultima,should not be banned due to the book being very interesting and relatable. Some people might think that Bless Me Ultima, is very interesting due to Ultima being a curandera and.