The reader received a foreshadow of this style early in the reading when Ms.
Silko described Tayo's thoughts and memories as a spilled wicker basket of
sewing thread (pg. 6 & 7). Once spilled and tangled the threads are to the
point where they are almost one entity. An entity with no clear beginning or
end. When Tayo would try to untangle the threads and pull on only one peice
it would only tangle more and become more unseperable.
Ms. Silko's non-linear style seems to give the reader the feeling that Tayo's
life, and maybe the confusion and termoil within the reservation's life, is
interwoven and unclear, much like the spilled basket of thread. That any
particular time is only a segment of a greater whole... regardless of
sequence.
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