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Quote #10
Our full-service apartment feels like a prison, too, with its gray colors and cleanliness; the way I can't leave it without someone taking my picture. From its windows I stare out at the city … at the concrete and buildings, cars and suits. Some days I imagine the land that lives beneath it all, red and dormant; the land you love. Then my mind drifts to the desert; to the open spaces of color and pattern. I miss it, that endlessness. (106.4)
Here's the really interesting part: When she's returned to civilization, Gemma sees it with completely new eyes. Specifically, she sees it as a place of confinement—even though it represents freedom. She finds herself wanting to return to the beauty of the place where she was held prisoner. In other words, regardless of the legality of his actions, Ty has given Gemma a new experience and new outlook on the world. In a way, she is having the same experience he had when he was taken from the wilderness and brought to the city as a boy.