 At the conclusion of the novel, Antonio reflects on the tension that he feels as he is pulled between his father's free, open landscape of the "llano," and his mother's circumscribed river valley of the town.In addition, he reflects on the pull between Catholicism and the continuation of Ultima's spiritual legacy and concludes that he does not need to choose one over the other, but can bring both together to form a new identity and a new religion that is made up of both.Antonio says to his father