Tasha's 4th (?) Blog Post

I have to say that the book is becoming marginally more interesting. We are starting to get more information on Tayo's non-war past. I'm finding all of his relationships very intriguing. Tayo and Auntie seem to have come to some sort of compromise: He has accepted that she will never let him belong fully, and she has accepted that he is not going away. Auntie is quickly becoming one of my least favorite characters just because of how she treats Tayo and how conscious she is of avoiding gossip and “shame”. (She has officially overtaken Tayo!) Rocky and Tayo's relationship is very interesting. Rocky obviously loved Tayo and he unconsciously drifted away from Auntie, yet he only referred to him as “brother” once. I find that rather odd, do you guys? Tayo and Josiah's relationship is also very interesting, but I'm a little biased because I think that Joshia is adorable (even if he likes prostitutes).
One of the other characters that I find kind of interesting is Night Swan. A Mexican dancer, she is an example of an empowered woman. Is she supposed to sure as a contrast to Laura, Tayo's fairly weak mother? Also, she is Mexican – not Indian. Shouldn't there be more antagonism towards her?
My favorite quote from this reading shows that Tayo is still connected to his Indian roots. “They rode south with the sun climbing up in the east, making the sky bright, almost blinding. There were no clouds and the air still smelled cool. He wanted to remember the morning, bright and clear as the leaves on the little green plants which grew low and close to the sandy ground. It had the clarity of the sky after a summer rainstorm, when the dust was washed away, and the colors of the hills and the shadows of the mesas had an intensity which made everything he saw accessible, as if he could touch all of it, even the little green rabbit weed growing close to the sand, its tiny leaves clustered like stars.” (78-79) This was just a very beautiful description of the landscape that I liked.