The plot of the story centered on the life and experiences of a Navajo woman named Ayah. The story began with Ayah in the later years of her life. She was sitting by a creek and waiting for her husband. Ayah began to reflect on her past and her children. The short story was full of flashbacks which described the death of her son, Jimmie, who joined the United States military and died in a helicopter crash while serving the country. The flashbacks also relate the details surrounding the removal of Ayah’s two children, Danny and Ella, from her home by the white people. Ayah and her family were poor and lived in a small boxcar shack on a ranch. Her husband, Chato, worked on the ranch with the cattle. Ayah and her family, along with the other Native Americans, had grown to fear the white people that had taken over their land. Near the end of the story, Chato lost his job whe

The theme of Silko's Lullaby centered on fear and the ability of people to overcome their fear with other emotions. Ayah's fear was presented in this way in order to show the way that the Native Americans felt about the white people in the United States. The Native Americans were able to conquer their fear of the white people, but they began to feel anger and hatred with respect to the white people. The language used in the story and the way in which the plot and characters were developed allowed the emotions of the protagonist to move to the foreground of the story.

The setting of the story was not very precise with regard to location, but it was described in detail. At the beginning of the story, Ayah sat by the Cebolleta Creek reflecting on her past. While an exact location was not named in the novel, the Navajo people lived in the states of New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona, and it can be assumed that the story took place in this region of the United States. Ayah's time of reflection by the creek took place late in her life and during winter. The story took place in the space of one evening, but it contained a number of flashbacks to different stages in Ayah's life. The setting was described objectively to the reader without any of the personal opinions of the narrator. However, the way that the setting was described created a sense that Ayah truly loved the land and her surroundings. She spent a great deal of time observing her surroundings, and the words used to describe the setting were primarily positive.

The other characters in the story had less important roles in the story. Chato, Ayah’s husband, worked on a white man’s ranch in order to provide for his family. He also learned how to speak English and taught Ayah how to write her name, a skill which ultimately resulted in the loss of two of their children. Chato seemed insensitive both when he was told that Jimmie had been killed and when he realized that Danny and Ella were being taken away. Ayah’s children Jimmie, Danny, and Ella were important to the story because Ayah’s loss of the children caused her to change her feelings regarding white people. Both Danny and Ella began to forget their Navajo heritage soon after they were taken from their parents. The white doctors and the white government officials played important but minor roles in the novel. They informed Ayah that Jimmie had died, and they later took Danny and Ella away from her. These white people served as the antagonists in the novel because they were in conflict with Ayah and brought a great deal of sadness into her life. The white people eventually began to fear Ayah and the Native Americans. They were uncomfortable around the Native Americans, and Ayah realized this on two occasions. She realized that the white men in the bar were afraid of her, and she remembered how frightened the blonde woman had been when she brought Ayah’s children to the boxcar shack for a visit

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