Bateson begins to notice that she too is learning something for the first time because I was preoccupied with Vanni s experience, it was almost impossible to realize that I was encountering something new myself . Even when explaining what they see to a child. Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination is different than the first two stories. Although Silko is describing what she sees, Silko is also describing what other people are seeing. Silko describes people as part of the land and not just people.
Viewers are as much a part of the landscape as the boulders they stand on .
Bateson s purpose is to show how we see things and how we educate children to adult meanings. I had slipped into a teaching role. Bateson goes on to say that when children are explained what they see, they will understand and not fear what they see. Dillard wants people to pay attention not to what they see, but to what they do not see unless I call my attention to what passes before my eyes, I simply won t see it. Dillard is pointing out what needs to be seen, those things that we have chosen not to see.