"The Stone Horse"

I was most drawn to Section 1 of Lopez's narrative. This section was very historical in nature. It was very descriptive and some aspects that could be explicitly shown are imagery, and emotions. As a whole, every paragraph from this section contained imagery. An example of the imagery displayed can be seen through, " the bare, jagged mountains and dry lake beds, the vast and uniform plains of creosote bush and yucca plants." (pg 497 second paragraph) You can see exactly what is being described and become apart of the writing. You can really get a feel for the region and change that is occurring with these sentences: " The dark mouths of gold, talc, and tin mines yawned from the bony flanks of desert ranges. Dust-encrusted chemical plants stood at work on the lonely edges of dry lake beds. And crops of grapes, lettuce, dates, alfalfa, and cotton covered the Coachella and Imperial valleys, north and south of the Salton Sea, and the Palo Verde Valley along the Colorado." (pg 497 last paragraph)

I believe this section to be emotional because Lopez is describing change that has occurred over time and destruction that has taken place. I feel like Lopez is very much opposed to what has happened and the writing from the later sections greater support this, especially in the last line when he doesn't want the stone horse to ever be touched/found.