Under The Painted Sky Analysis

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Humans are visual creatures who judge the world by the way it appears to them. This is why art and nature can appear differently to each and every one of them. Unfortunately, the same rules apply to how they view each other on a daily basis. Many are fine with assuming the attitude and feelings of another without a second thought, but then continue to push the other to learn more. This is the case in Under a Painted Sky, by Stacey Lee. In this novel a young Chinese American woman named Samantha is thrown out into the dangerous and terrifying world after her father dies in a fire in their shop, the Whistle. Samantha meets many people on her way to California to find Mr. Trask, West being one of the most influential. Disguised as men, Samantha (Sammy) and her slave runaway friend Annamae (Andy) travel with West, where Sammy falls in …show more content…
Though, to get there she must overcome the human tendency to judge a person by their first encounter, which she does well with West. At the beginning of the novel, Sammy officially meets West for the first time on the trail while cooking snake over a fire (she bumped into him earlier in the book). Her first impression of him is as a young man with dark eyes and scars on his arm. She sees him as a man with a troubled past and a hard life ahead of him, not someone to stick around. After securing a ride with West and his posse, Peety and Cay, Sammy rides with West and Andy rides the horse named Princesa. As the story progresses, Sammy begins to feel more and more of a love for West, which she tries to hide as she is a boy right now. Later in the novel, the group comes along a group of French travelers near a fort, whom they share a meal with. As Sammy goes to sleep that night, she notices that West is nowhere to be seen, so she decides to go for a late night walk. Sammy is on her walk when

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