3.3 follow the road map (194-206)
Like a road map, Green Grass Running Water is full of allusion and word play connects the novel not only linearly, but also inter-connectively–it forces you to make connections at various points throughout the novel. Here is my “hyper-text” reading for pages 194 to 206. Page 194 opens with Coyote and a story about Changing Woman. Coyote is known as “the trickster” in Native American mythology, and is considered one of the First People (Flick 142). Changing Woman is a Navajo deity who was born “in the fifth world” of the subterranean…read more