Erica's Eighth Post.

So, this part of the book was quite interesting…

Tayo completes the ceremony and leaves Betonie to find Josiah’s cattle. He hitches a ride with truck drivers but at some point he decided to walk so that he could recognize himself again. While he was walking Leroy, Harley and Helen Jean picked up Tayo in a old and dirty truck. They drive through towns causing trouble in the bars. Tayo leaves them and gets a horse to ride north to find the cattle. When Tayo stops to give his horse some water, Tayo meets a woman and she welcomes him to her home. They had a lot of sex and while they were doing that, Tayo was dreaming of his cattle which is weird. Tayo leaves the woman and he keeps going up north. At first Tayo sees the cattle but then they disappeared again. Tayo cut a hole in a white man’s fence to help the cattle escape.

I like how Tayo is now because he stopped being depressed and throwing up all the time. What I thought was weird was that Tayo was sleeping around. I don’t think things just happen like that within 5 minutes of seeing each other for the first time.

The quote that caught my attention was: “He knew that he had learned the lie by heart – the lie which they had wanted him to learn: only brown-skinned people were thieves; white people didn’t steal, because they always had the money to buy whatever they wanted.” (Silko 191) I think that the “lie” is really dumb because anyone can steal even if they do have money. Yes, the white people in the book are which but it doesn’t mean they don’t do bad things. The white people stole the Indian’s land, doesn’t that count for something?