Blog May 19, 2009

Ryder Wakayama

I'm one day late, my internet was acting all strange but here we go

Well now I'm sure where the present is and I'm getting more interested in the book. Tayo is finally over being sad for himself and is going to find Josiah's cattle. He meets a girl and has a random fling with her that part was kind of weird. I like his determination to recover Josiah's cattle and his new outlook that the white people steal as well.

"holding his heaving belly, trying to vomit out everything--all the past, all his life." Pg. 168

This quote is a little experience he had where he kind of had a relapse, after this he seems positive and such. This may have also symbolized his healing and him removing the past from his body.

"The lie. He cut into the wire as if cutting away at the lie inside himself. The liars had fooled everyone, white and Indians alike; as long as people believed the lies they would never be able to see what had been done to them or what they were doing to each other." Pg. 191

This is when Tayo thinks about the white people stealing the cattle that Josiah had lost. He finds a new point of view and sees how the white people had stolen from the Indians, such as their land and even their dignity.