Jordan Bird Reader Response

The reading I choose to do my reading response on was Buffalo gals. I thought this story was a little farfetched but enjoyable. I thought it was a little weird that a girl was in an airplane crash and came out with just a missing eye. I do however like the coyote character. I felt that she was a guiding presence for the young girl, she was caring like a mother but at the same time pushed her to do a lot of stuff on her own like a father would do, for example when they are running to the village the little girl stops a couple times because she is physically unable to keep going but the coyote comes back to push her to keep going. Soon enough they make it to the village with the tiny people and a doctor named Jay heals the young girl’s eye by using pine pitch; which the coyote then says to the girl “That eye looks like shit.” Then the coyote healed her pain once more by licking her face; a very weird relationship in my personal opinion.

When the child decided to sleep in coyote’s house her experience with the flea bed, muddy water, and hanging salmon for food made me think that she was switching the life of a coyote. She was experiencing how to live like a coyote and I believe she adapted quite well with her current circumstances. The scene that struck me in a weird spot was the scene where one of coyotes boyfriends trying to rape the little child. This story was very creepy and interesting at the same time. I am not sure if it’s my particular style that I am used to but it’s good in its own ways.