For my coming of age novel I chose to read A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris. This novel is a fictitious novel that was published in 1987. It is a fierce story told from the viewpoint of three different generations of Indian women each with a broken life. The main characters of this story are 15-year-old Rayona, Christine Rayona’s mother, and Ida Christine’s mother and 15-year-old Rayona’s grandmother. Throughout the entire book the family, heritage and who each character is magnified.
Rayona
Rayona is 15 years old and has moved all over jumping from school to school, they never stayed in one place for too long so she just stopped trying to make friends. She was very awkward looking, as well she was very tall and very dark unlike …show more content…
Christine has a sibling name Lee who is very handsom. But she is very doubtful they have the same father because they looks nothing alike but her mother wont speak about it, and they aren’t aloud to call there mother mom because she finds It is informal. Christine was a very attractive young lady and is very well liked by the boys but, Christine becomes attracted to her brothers friend Dayton but he doesn’t want to be anything other than friends at the time. So Christine leaves the reservation and goes off, and one night at a bar she receives a letter explain how Lee is missing in action, but shrugs it off. She later goes to a bar that night and meets a black soldier named Elgin and he buys her a drink and explains what happened to brother and how he died. They marry but then separate because after the birth of there daughter Rayona was born he was very unfaithful. When Rayona is a teenager the doctors tell Christine that she has only six months to live so she breaks out of the hospital and take her daughter to the reservation where she grew up. She leaves her daughter at Aunt Ida’s and ends up at Dayton’s house where she stay for months. She came to Aunt Ida’s house once to pick up medication but her daughter isn’t there and Aunt Ida doesn’t know where she is. Her boyfriend Dayton leaves to go to a rodeo where he sees Rayona ride his animal. They meet and Dayton takes Rayona to his home where her mother is at and they
Rayona
Rayona is 15 years old and has moved all over jumping from school to school, they never stayed in one place for too long so she just stopped trying to make friends. She was very awkward looking, as well she was very tall and very dark unlike …show more content…
Christine has a sibling name Lee who is very handsom. But she is very doubtful they have the same father because they looks nothing alike but her mother wont speak about it, and they aren’t aloud to call there mother mom because she finds It is informal. Christine was a very attractive young lady and is very well liked by the boys but, Christine becomes attracted to her brothers friend Dayton but he doesn’t want to be anything other than friends at the time. So Christine leaves the reservation and goes off, and one night at a bar she receives a letter explain how Lee is missing in action, but shrugs it off. She later goes to a bar that night and meets a black soldier named Elgin and he buys her a drink and explains what happened to brother and how he died. They marry but then separate because after the birth of there daughter Rayona was born he was very unfaithful. When Rayona is a teenager the doctors tell Christine that she has only six months to live so she breaks out of the hospital and take her daughter to the reservation where she grew up. She leaves her daughter at Aunt Ida’s and ends up at Dayton’s house where she stay for months. She came to Aunt Ida’s house once to pick up medication but her daughter isn’t there and Aunt Ida doesn’t know where she is. Her boyfriend Dayton leaves to go to a rodeo where he sees Rayona ride his animal. They meet and Dayton takes Rayona to his home where her mother is at and they