Analysis part 2

Robert Murillo                                                                                   10/24/11
Tanis                                                                                                Period 5

                                                                Analysis 2 (pages 63-64)


Imagery:

"She watched while Mistress trained Sorrow to sewing, the one task she liked and was good at, and said nothing when, to stop her roaming, he said, Sir made the girl sleep by the fireplace all seasons." This is a description of how Sorrow, who can apparently do nothing right does somthing that she is finally good at and enjoys, which is sewing, like a person who weaves clothing and etc. (pg 63)

"Her people had built sheltering cities for a thousand years and, except for the deathfeet of the Europe, might have built them for a thousand more." (pg 63) This form of imagery shows the darker side of how native americans were used and treated as dirt, in this case Lina's Ancestors, and it is bein described how the europians would literally work them to death.

Literary Devices:

"In fact, said the old women in charge of the children, he had apologized for his error in prophecy and admitted that however many collapsed from ignorance or disease, more would always come." (pg 63) This is an example of Irony because the shaman/ fortune teller to the natives had said that they shall eventually flee when the direct opposite had happened.

Values:

"They would come with languages that sounded like dog bark; with childish hunger for animal fur. They would forever fence land, ship whole trees to far away countries, take any woman for a wuick pleasure, ruin soil, befoul sacred places of worship a dull, inimaginitive god." (pg 63) This is an example of ignorance of when somone does not know the value of what they have, in this case it is the Europeans with everything that is explained in the passage above.

Characterization:

"They let their hogs browse the ocean shore, turning it into dunes of sand where northing green can ever grow again." (pg 63-64) This is yet another description of the europeans of how the Europeans are piggish, and indulge in almost all the land that they can get their hands on.

Language/word choice:

"It was thier destiny to chew up the world and spit out a horribleness that would destroy all primary peoples." (pg 64) The wording and literature in this piece is used almost in a plural fashion which is sort of confusing especially when you dont know what Lina is always talking about. She also likes to talk in Metaphors alot, relating nature to the uncivilized world that they live in.