Okay so I just finished reading pages 109 to 139. In this section we are introduced to Betoine. He is a medicin man and is helping Tayo with his ceremony. I'm almost postitive that this section is written in the present tense. I like this section because I think it shows how Tayo starts his journey to being mentally healed. I also like the deeper insight that betoine gives to the motives of the white people and where the originated from. I also like how he doesn't blame everything on the white people and how Betoine teaches Tayo that what the white people did to the indians is an offset of what indian witchcraft started years ago.
"This is the trickery of the witchcraft, he said, they want us to believe all evil resides with white people. Then we will look no further to see what is really happening. They want us to seperate ourseves from white people, to be ignorant and helpless as we watch our own destrution."(132)
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Tehani,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your post. We're calling this 5...technically it is 6, but to keep things less confusing we're calling it 5.
What exactly does that mean that the white people were a product of the trickery of witchcraft?
I'm sorry, I'm not following; isn't the poem at the end of the passage all about blaming white folks for Indian problems? That's the gist I got.
ReplyDeleteI think it is written is present tense mostly but there are very few flashbacks...i like that he does not blame it all on the white people like some other characters in the story do...i think this story has a lot to do with the differences in the white race compared to the Indian race.
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