When I read Museum Indians I thought that the imagery most important to the story was when they were in the museum “I can see a story developing behind her eyes, and I tug on her arm to release the words.” This quote from the story means that the author’s mother is thinking of a past life experience that is taking her focus away. I thought the past event in the mother’s life is when she had to leave original the Indian tribe so she could help out the family during the war. The effect this quote had on the text is to see how the mother is so the readers can fully understand how connected the author's mother is to her past. The tone I get from this quote in the passage it is in is sadness and
