I’m glad there are longer poems in the second half of Popol Vuh, and there is more distinction of the brother’s lives. There’s more describing and explaining when the poems are a bit longer, which gives the reader more clearer context when they might feel lost. Once the brothers decide to leave home, the book does amazing work at helping you visualize the colors of the desert, and the harsh terrain. The animals and the characters all coexist with each other and there’s more to the story while reading the remainder of the book. It kind of becomes comical the way the animals speak in the text, and the poems. There’s a sense of innocence from reading about the brother’s growing up story, and the innocence of children playing ball, and giving paying each other flowers as prizes.<\/p>\n
I do like the remaining poems and construction of the final words of the book, they become much easier to read and follow along with. The poems become more descriptive, and appealing to the reader’s eye. It almost becomes full circle talking back to creation, and end and beginning, and suffering and re-living. There was a long journey, but we got there anyway, basically what i’m taking away from this novel is the importance of persistence and never giving up on your goals, if the characters didn’t keep moving forward, they’re life experiences away from home wouldn’t have been lived, kind of like moving away from home to go to college, we never know what will happen until we try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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