nicklin

Story telling is very important in this novel because its basically a native American tradition. I think the stories or poems in the book have a lot to do with Tayo because the poems have a lot to do with the Indian heritage and the world that once was. Tayo remembers and goes through rituals that I feel basically link him to the past and reconnect him to his family or community. They give him an out look that he is not alone and others shared the same experiences before him.
The stories never really break from the book they are placed into the actual novel and flow with what’s going on in the novel. Which brings me back to my case that what’s going on to Tayo might be a new occurrence but the stories from the past give you a sense that things are not so different from today, that there’s always been problems or struggle. There is no chapter separation or place on the page that separates the old stories or poems from the actual story of Tayo and I think there is a reason for that because the two are not suppose to be separated they are both one in the same.