Response to Course Material #8 -Apr. 14-

First things first, Ceremony. Though, very very painful to annotate, I thought it was actually a really interesting book, with a whole lot of symbolism. Reading it a second time allowed me to see more within the text that I didn't see in the initial read. Though, I personally didn't enjoy the sections where all it was, was the descriptions of the scenery, probably because it was very slow and hard to comment on while annotating. But I admit that the descriptions led to beautiful images in my mind. There seriously was a ton of symbols in the book, such as the colors red, white, yellow, and blue, all meaning certain directions, which also were a symbol. The mountain lion, deer, and bear all being spirit animals that lead Tayo on his journey was something that I missed while reading the text, though looking back, it was something that could make sense. But other than Ceremony, we have just started Fifth Business (which I admit, I'm not far in...). So far, it's an odd book, the idea of a man writing to his boss to explain something that he didn't do by telling him his life story is... sorta weird. Maybe once I get further I'll update this post. But I think that's all we've done since the last post that I can remember.