Reading notes Week 2:"The Land of Little Rain",Part A

As I visualize the setting in my mind I can see that the details the storyteller is giving me of the setting is describing a hot desert. You can tell she’s very descriptive when she starts to describe how hot it is and she also mentioned that it's a place where no one lives. Mary says“Desert is the name it wears upon the maps..Desert is a loose term to indicate land that supports no man; whether the land can be bitted and broken to that purpose is not proven. Void of life it never is, however dry the air and villainous the soil.This is the nature of that country. There are hills, rounded, blunt, burned...The hill surface is streaked with ash drift and black, unweathered lava flow”(Mary Austin). The story gives off a feeling type vibe where you should imagine and feel how the story is being betrayed.When I started imagining things of my own to add on with what the Storyteller said it makes me think of this movie that I watch a long time ago called The Scorpion King when his army was defeated and casted out into the desert. Everyone a part of his army had died in the desert because there was no food, water, nor any shelter. The desert is not a place where people can live. I think that the author was really trying to  show how different this land is from the land that people can live on. Even though there were some positive things in there because she did describe how there are some pools of water in which I think she was going to say Oasis the desert still is not a place where life can grow. Some thoughts I kept in mind while reading this was that even thought the desert is not a home for many it’s still a home for some.

Citation:  Mary Hunter Austin, “The Land of Little Rain”