![]() Plot: It started out by talking about this guy walking around and he saw this sheep farm. The last thing I really didn't like the book is because, it was not interesting. I could understand everything and I can picture everything in my head. It was a good book when it came down to describing things. The reason why I say that is because, nothing really happens in the book. Personal Response: I thought that this book was very boring and slow. As a person from New England who has spent time in NM, this story always brings me back to that place when I read it and I can picture the arroyos and mountains and dusty terrain, as well as the melding of customs. It would lead to reading the work of contemporary Native American writers like Silko, and I used this story, which I particularly like in the way it weaves old spiritual customs with new the way it shows conflicts between the those originally in this country and those who encountered them-how very different their ideas were in the role nature plays in creation, culture, religion, medicine, and so on. ![]() We then looked at different perspectives on the early texts, such as Bradford's Of Plimoth Plantation and considered the Native American view of the same story. We began by comparing Native America creation myths with the Judeo-Christian myth (story of Genesis). ![]() For several years I taught this as a bridge between the old and new customs in America to students in my American Literature class. ![]()
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