Structures

I really love the construction of the book "Six Kinds of Sky". The book is a piece of art itself, a nice supplement to the real work on the inside. On the cover of the book there are six colors: yellow, red, blue, green, black, and white. The color scheme doesn't stray from these foundational colors. Also, the title is made up of the number six. The words "six" and "sky" both have three letters, combining to make six; the combined letters of "kinds" and "of" also add up to that lucky number six. There are six stories in the book plus one afterword. Surprisingly, the Author's name contains no six-letter words, but instead is composed of four, seven, and five. The package that this book comes in is beautiful.

The structure of Urrea's work "Father's Return from the Mountain" I find to be clever. It is a series of images divided by slants (/). At first I wasn't sure what the purpose of that punctuation was, but then it occurred to me that this piece might be a kind of poem. On a side note, I wonder if Urrea made an intentional Star Wars reference in the scene with his Dad on page 108: "'I love you,' I say.' I know,' he says."