The boys exchange stories about their experiences in their uniforms and Tayo realized that as long as they were wearing uniforms, they weren’t being discriminated. Emo is angry with Tayo and as they get drunk, Tayo cries for they’re situation where they remember the feeling of belonging.
Tayo remembers how Rocky was killed. The Japanese soldiers covered his head in a blanket and shot him. Tayo wakes up in a shade with Harley, and he reminisces on what Josiah had taught him about nature and how drought only happened when people forgot. Harley and Tayo drink from the spring. A poem tells a story about magic that was just a tick, and Mother corn was tired of being neglected so she took the plants and the rain clouds with her.
Tayo and Harley arrive at the bar and Tayo remembers how he and Rocky killed a deer and what Rocky had taught him. Harley and Tayo drank a lot of beer, and he tries to get everyone to leave Tayo alone. Tayo gets so angry that he breaks a beer bottle and shoves it at Emo’s stomach. Then the poem continues to show eople to ask for forgiveness.
This section of the book really confused me, because I didn’t understand when he was having flashbacks, and I just wasn’t too sure of what was going on, and why most of the setting was at the bar.
pg: 49- 65
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