Oritz

The disorder in Travelling by Simon J. Ortiz is celebrated through the main character's blissfull ignorant reliving of memoeries. Ortiz writes, "He writes their names on a letter pad, hurries to another source, asks the librarian for another book but it is out and he looks hurt and then he rushes back to the globe." This shows disorder because once his goal of finding the book is crushed he forgets about it. The book meant something to him but it only took him a few seconds to forget about it. Furthermore despite whatever relation he has to these places he is looking at, there is obvious signifigance to them. However Ortiz never lets on to what that relationship might be. The only textual evidence we have is, "A man has been in the VAH library all day long." the VAH is a veteran's hospital so the only conclusion we can draw is that he had either once been to some of these places in war. the lack of knowledge given to the reader about the history of the man is perfect disorder.