Jessica # 8

So in this reading Tayo wakes up at the bar he Harley and Leroy went to. He drives them to a ridge or something and lets them sit in their pee. That was really weird and in this reading their was a lot of talk about pee which kind of grossed me out. So anyone all this stuff starts coming true. Like Tayo sees the rights formation of stars in the sky and he has this one night stand with this random woman he meets at this hill, so everything Betonie said was going to happen happened and I think Silko had that happen to show truth in the Indian’s beliefs. So since Betonie was right about all this Tayo goes to find the cattle and he spots them!!!!! So I think this is the point of the story where he truly starts to heal and recover and see life in a new light!
“Why did he hesitate to accuse a white man of stealing but not a Mexican or an Indian?...He knew then he had leaned 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” (pg. 191)

“Like the fist time in science class, when the teacher brought in a tubful of dead frogs, bloated with formaldehyde, and the Navajos all lef the room; the teacher said those old beliefs were stupid. The Jemez girl raised her hand and said the people always told the kids not to kill frogs, because the frogs would get anrgy and send so much rain there would be floods. The science teacher laughed loudly, for a long time.” (pg. 195)

Through these two quotes I think that Tayo is getting angrier at the white people. I think his eyes are opening to the social injustices that he and his people face. I think that it is really sad that he is becoming so angry but at the same time I don’t blame him because the white people have done so much to the Indians.