Nichole's Blog #2

I just finished reading section 34-49 in the book. Unlike the first section, I was way confused until about page 44 when Harley asked Tayo if he was okay from his sunstroke. I still really enjoy this book, and I enjoy how descriptive it is.
But I have one question: what exactly is a scalp ceremony? Because I tried to answer that question for the study guide and in the reading it didn't really give an exact answer, or why Tayo didn't think that is what he needed.
Other then that, this is by far one of my favorite books we've read this year. Oddly enough, I find myself really enjoying books about other places that are either nonfiction or historical fiction because I can connect those types of books to what I am currently learning in my history class.

My favorite quote for this section was: "He had heard Auntie talk about the veterans- drunk all the time, she said. But he knew why. It wa something the old people could not understand. Liquor was medicine for the anger that made them hurt, for the pain of the loss, medicine for tight bellies and choked-up throats. He was beginning to feel a comfortable place inside himself, close to his own beating heart, near his own warm belly; he crawled inside and watched the storm swirling on the outside and he was safe there; the winds of rage could not touch him." Page 40
This is my favorite quote of the section because it clearly describes how veterans use liquor to take the pain away from their post-war trauma. Also because people don't only use liquor for post-war traima but also to take themselves away from their everyday problems. And Tayo is taking about how drinking takes him away from everything and it makes him feel like himself again.

P.S. Ms. Champagne, I didn't turn my questions in last week Wednesday because Ms. Remy said that we had the same homework over the weekend and I thought we had to turn it in today.