kelly’s blog

Right now I am watching the Steeler game and doing this quite fast so this is going to be short and probably not as good as it could be. When I first read the poems, I read through them fast and had no idea what I read at first. But once I went back and read through the poems slowly, I finally could see that all the poems connected and told a story. It’s the process of Tayo’s ceremony and the steps, feelings, and conversations, going on while the ceremony is taking place. There are a lot of graphic detailed things said in the poems where I almost stopped reading and was about to put the book down. But from the graphic details told in the poems, shows how angry Tayo is towards the white community not understanding or accepting the Native American culture. You slowly see how Tayo changes throughout his ceremony from the passages.