Tasha's 5th Blog

This reading was interesting to say the least. It was rather scandalous! Obviously one of the major parts was when Night Swan and Tayo had sex. I am very confused as to WHY this happened, but it did. Josiah must find out eventually (it always comes out!), so how is he going to react? Is he going to be raving mad, or deeply hurt and quiet? I'm not sure if we know enough about the character yet to be sure. One thing that I don't quite agree with all of you on is regarding Night Swan: Yes, she is a little promiscuous, but if you take that out she is probably one of my favorite characters. I love the idea of such a strong, confident, and independent woman. She doesn't care what others think, a contrast to the Native American view.
I was wondering: did it seem like there were more nature related passages in this reading? I'm not complaining, it was all beautifully written, I'm just trying to figure out why Silko would go on for pages about a storm or flowers when there are bigger plot elements going on.
“Everywhere he looked, he saw a world made of stories, the long ago, time immortal stories, as old Grandma called them. It was a world alive, always changing and moving; and if you know where to look, you could see it, sometimes almost imperceptible, like the motion of the star across the sky.”(pg 95) I really liked this quote because it helped to explain an enormous part of the Native American culture: stories. I find the concept of the world being made up of never-ending stories very interesting. It's like a quit made up of stories.
The book is much less confusing than in the beginning which is really great! The thing is that the book is supposed to be kind of revolutionary and is meant to portray culture conflicts, but honestly I'm still waiting for the second shoe to drop. There doesn't seem to be that much about people's backgrounds being at odds with each other!