silko assignment
Sarah Jane Polley (sjp7793@silver.sdsmt.edu)
Fri, 7 Nov 1997 12:52:50 -0700 (MST)
There was a paragraph in the reading for last week that I thought
might have had a hidden meaning. We never mentioned it in class so I
thought I would share it with you. The paragraph said:
'When the shadows were gone, and the cliff rock began to get warm,
the frogs came out from their sleeping places in small cracks and niches
in the cliff avove the pool. They were the color of the moss near the
spring, and their backs were spotted the color of wet sand. They moved
slowly into the sun, blinking their big eyes. He watched them dive into
the pool, one by one, with a graceful quiet sound. They swam across the
pool to the sunny edge and sat there looking at him, snapping at the tiny
insects that swarmed in the shade and grass around the pool. He smiled.
They were the rain's children. He had seen it happen many times after a
rainstorm. In dried up ponds and in the dry arroyo sands, even as the
rain was still falling, they came popping up through the ground, with wet
sand still on their backs. Josiah said they could stay buried in the dry
sand for many years, waiting for the rain to come again.'
I thought that this could possibly be a sign to Tayo that his
people would also live through the drought, like the frogs. Maybe I
looked to far into it.
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