For example, Ultima is known as the healer and we don’t see a lot of violence from her. Throughout the book however, the owl does not seem to have the “qualities” (for lack of a better word) that Ultima does. Then, upon burying the owl, Antonio realizes that he has buried Ultima. Of course, Tenorio tells us that the owl represents Ultima’s spirit: “‘It is the owl! Do you hear, little bastard! It is the owl that is the spirit of the old witch'” … but is there anything more to this? At the end the owl dies, and shortly after that Ultima does as well. First off, does the owl symbolize Ultima? In the first half of the book I didn’t really know what to make of the owl, but now it seems like the owl represents Ultima.
To be completely honest, the second half of this book caused me some confusion, so I am just going to ramble a bit in this post.
