Tayo knew what they had been trying to do. His suffering it pitiable on an individual level, but also allows reveals a broader insight about how 'the world had come undone.'īelonging was drinking and laughing with the platoon, dancing with blond women, buying drinks for buddies born in Cleveland, Ohio. Silko, however, portrays Tayo's physical and metal weaknesses for an important thematic purpose. He has been so weakened and traumatized by his experiences that he can barely control his reactions, or his own body the violent vomiting mentioned here, for instance, is induced by nothing more than the sight of a few Japanese-American civilians at a train station.

Here we see the fragility of Tayo's mental state after his return from war. Maybe it had always been this way and he was only seeing it for the first time.

Years and months had become weak, and people could push against them and wander back and forth in time. He couldn't vomit any more, and the little face was still there, so he cried at how the world had come undone, how thousands of miles, high ocean waves and green jungles could not hold people in their place. He could still see the face of the little boy, looking back at him, smiling, and he tried to vomit that image from his head, because it was Rocky's smiling face from a long time before, when they were little kids together. The smell of his own vomit and the rotting garbage filled his head, and he retched until his stomach heaved in frantic dry spasms. OL2004614W Page_number_confidence 86.23 Pages 278 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.10 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210327124049 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 520 Scandate 20210318234737 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780143104919 Tts_version 4.The swelling was pushing against his throat, and he leaned against the brick wall and vomited into the big garbage can. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 11:00:45 Associated-names McMurtry, Larry, writer of introduction Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA40082419 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Col_number COL-658 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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