Lullaby (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Plot: Lyric
- Time of Work: The 1970's
- Setting: Near Cebolleta, New Mexico, on the Navajo reservation
- Principal Characters: Ayah, Chato, The bartender and patrons
- Genres: Short fiction, Elegy
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Emotions, Native Americans or American Indians, Death or dying, Loneliness
- Locales: New Mexico, Navajo Indian Reservation, NV
The Story
Ayah sits under a cottonwood watching snow fall and recalling events in her past. The sound of the wind reminds her of the songs of the holy people, the Yeibechei, and the snow is like the tufts of wool that her mother and grandmother wove when she was a little girl. Sitting under an army blanket, a gift from her eldest son, Jimmie, she remembers his birth in a stone hogan. Her mind moves to the day a representative from the government came to the ranch where she and Chato, her husband, were living to tell them about Jimmie's death in combat. The messenger had not...
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