Maura's Blog #5 - 87-108

If I remember right.. 87 to 108 is mainly about Night Swan and flies.
Night Swan's story is kind of odd.. The scene where Night Swan and Tayo have sex is very disturbing and I didn't really want to read it. Tayo was making it into some beautiful thing and relating it to nature and beauty, when he was having sex with some 50 60 70 year old woman. When Tayo was at the spring, I realized how much this book is based on this drought. It started during the war, when he 'cursed' the rain, and has lasted all this way through his guilt. He goes to the spring and begins to think about old tales of rain, and I love the imagery of the animals of the spring in this paragraph too. I was kind of confused though, when he made this huge deal about the drought, and then the next thing you know, its raining? Odd.
One of the most interesting scenes/conversations in this part of the book is talking about their old dog, Pepper. It was actually kind of amusing, how perfect the metaphor was. Of course it was also sad, that the dog got run over, but it foreshadows what Tayo might tell us about Josiah's fate. I want to know!!
"The reflection of its colors made the sandstone cliffs bright gold, and then deep red. He sat on the steps of the long porch and looked at the adobe walls for a long time. years of rain and wind had weathered away the adobe plaster, exposing the symmetry of the brown adobes which were beginning to lose their square shape, taking on the softer contours of the mesas and hills." (Silko 103).
I liked this quote not only for the imagery, but for the symbolism. He remembered the old, relatively happy times, which could be represented by the original adobe. In present time, however, that fun had weathered away, just as the adobe did. His past was gone.