Lauren's Blog

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oh my goodness! every time i go to the blog thing, i can never find the place to put my blog.
soo i get super frustrated and i don't want to deal with it. so heres my blog #6:)

From pages 108-139 a lot went on. I was sort of confused on the story of the little boy and why
Silko even added it in. The story was sad because the boy was starving to death while his uncaring
mother is out and about "messing" around. That was messed up. Then when Robert made the comment
of, "Somebody you used to know?" (pg. 115) it somewhat came together that this little suffering boy
was Tayo. No wonder his mother couldn't take care of him, but still. It makes me kind of mad that a
mother would do that to her child. If you're going to have a kid, you are suppose to care for it and love
it more than anything in the world. Instead she pretty much left Tayo to die and didn't care. Even if this
wasn't Tayo and his mother, that it still sad.

Later in this section there was a lot of blame towards white people. The part about the witches was pretty weird and crazy especially the part about the baby skulls boiling in the blood and what not. It was disturbing.
The story about how white people came to be was also interesting. It also goes to show that it IS the quiet ones you always have to look out for because it was the witch that didn't show off that made the story of the white people and how they would destroy everything and that they "see no life, when they look, they see only objects" (pg. 136). The quote i found interesting was, "They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves" (pg. 136). This quote makes sense to me because it's sort of like that movie iRobot where we created robots, but then they turn out to have a mind of their own and try to destroy the human race. That's the same thing. Us people will destroy ourselves. Another quote i drew a moral from was,
"It's already turned loose. It's already coming. It can't be called back" (pg. 138). This quote symbolizes the damage that gossip or spreading rumors can do. Once something is put out there, or once something is said, it's impossible to take back. That's why some people say that the tongue is the strongest part of the body because you can say things that are so hurtful or hateful that can really emotionally damage someone. It'skind of like squirting out toothpaste and putting it back in. I suppose this could also be a theme of this section.