This part of the book was kind of boring, I didn't really get it at first but I figured it out. I guess Tayo is at Betonie's house/hidaway and Betonie is supposed to cure him. The white doctors didn't really help much so Tayo's family turned to the medicine man. Betonie tries to go through Tayo's thoughts to see why he is so depressed. I like the story the witch told about the white people, it's like the magical and sort of evil way that white people came to be.
Through pages 108 to 139 there was a lot of descriptive paragraphs but I liked this paragraph: "He looked at his face. The cheekbones were like the wings of a hawk soaring away from his broad nose; he wore a drooping thick mustache; the hairs were steel gray. Then Tayo looked at his eyes. They were hazel like his own. The medicine man nodded. "My grandmother was a remarkable Mexican with green eyes," he said." (Silko 119) This quote mainly has similes and concrete detail. Tayo was describing Betonie.
The book is ok so far, but I'm not that interested in it. But hopefully everyone else likes it.
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Erica,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post. What exactly did you like about the paragraph that you chose.
Save me the "I'm not interested..." comments.
Ms. Champagne
The Mexican girl is creepy (but not as scary as the grandfather) when you read the next passage. I think he calls her "remarkable" because she's the one who begins changing the ceremonies.
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