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Tayo and Emo have opposing relationships with violence in the novel: Tayo is a pacifist at heart who does not believe in repaying violence with further violence. Emo, on the other hand, advocates for retaliation, earnestly believing that Laguna Pueblo men should "take" White women as payback for the various atrocities White people have committed against Native Americans. Emo also takes pride in the acts of wartime violence he committed against Japanese soldiers, reveling in the trophies he took from their dead bodies. Note the following excerpt towar Section 2, where Tayo considers Emo's violent worldview:

“I only went after the officers. These teeth, they were from a Jap colonel. Yeah.”

Tayo could hear it in his voice when he talked about the killing—how Emo grew from each killing. Emo fed off each man he killed, and the higher the rank of the dead man, the higher it made Emo.

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