Crazy Brave Post 2

     Joy Harjo, author of Crazy Brave, seems to be very attached to her music and her arts.  Partially through the influence of escaping her abusive step father, Joy requested to move to a different school and actually went to a school in Santa Fe known for it's art classes for the indians. Albeit forced, she often stayed up until three or four in the morning "creating" using the materials the school provided.  This whole scenerio of moving to Santa Fe for the new school seems as if it was an escape from her step father, but she was happy at first to finally pursue her inner artist.  I feel as if she under plays her drug and alcohol abuse while at the school.  She kept bringing up how the other students were using, and sometimes that influenced a break out of fights, but I find it hard to believe that she was the only one that didn't use.  I think she may have used minutely, but did not mention it during this section of the book.
     Secondly Joy talks about how much she loves her child. When the baby was born there was no one around to acknowledge the birth of her son. Her and her husband had no car, so she had to walk herself to the hospital, alone.  The rest of her family was busy or lived far away.  I feel as if she did really well talking about the birth of her son.  She explains how she was there alone, she had a military doctor who birthed her son, the drugs they injected to her made her want to sit up so they threatened to use restraints on her, the stare that her and her son shared after his birth, and her feelings of holding him after she was less doped up.  She then goes on to explain that giving birth in a hospital was an alienation and got out of there as soon as possible.

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