First of all i would just like to say i am liking the book more now.
Anyway. I think it's kinda sad in a good way how tayo has all these flashbacks about him and Rocky. Like when they kill the deer. I admire though how in the indian culture they honor the deer that they kill, not like huntres they kill it and get meat and then leave it. You know what i mean. A question i have is the part were the author describes the nasty bathroom and one of the guys that goes in it and then he feels like he's going to fall in the water and all, who is that? Shortly after that part with the men and the women, that also befuddled me. Because Tayo said like how the Indian women that go with the white men are bad and disgraced and all but in that poem thing on page 57 and 58, does it talk about white me and women and Indian men and women or yeh.
I also have noticed that the men really turn to alchol to help them forget about the war and their problems
"Tayo remembered fighting Tomcats then, the frozen pose, arched bodiescoiled, only the tails twitching with heir anger, until one or the other made a move and they went rolling around inthe dirt." Page 60
Just one of the many good imagery's in the book
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The way i saw it was that the indian guys try and go after the white women, after the white men took the indian women during the war.
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Kaitlyn,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post. The bathroom guy was Tayo. I imagine there a few things going on...his being inebriated and basically having a post traumatic stress moment of being back in the war.
The poem about the women is Emo bragging about hooking up with white women...something probably not possible if he was living on the reservation, but as a 'soldier' he was viewed differently.
We talked about spelling, capitalization, etc...please keep that in mind with your posts.
Ms Champagne
If Tayo has issues with Emo, why does he go and get drunk with him? Can any good really come of that? Tayo's not terribly smart in that regard.
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