Omishto and Nature

Omishto is a teenage girl living in a world that she is torn between. She goes to school and lives in a normal house yet she is also part of the Taiga tribe. Not only that but I think Omishto has a strong connection with nature that she doesn't always quite understand. On page 101 she says that she could tell it was going to rain saying, "I can see it coming through the windows, moving toward us, and more than that, I can smell it." Just as when the storm hit earlier Omishto was able to tell what nature is doing without special equipment. I think this is one of the important connections for her to Taiga people which is to also be connected to the earth and nature. 

Furthermore, Omishto compares herself to a fern and Ama is the rain. These "resurrection ferns that wait for a rain like dead things and then open up new and green and beautiful like they are doing right now out on the hurricane-felled trees, like they didn't know it was catastrophe that gave them life." Through this analogy, I think Omishto sees herself as connected with nature but also just another part of nature.  Also, it could be just as the ferns can grow from this disaster so can Omishto. Ama was just the rain that started her growing experience. Even though as Omishto says the hurricane was a "catastrophe" there can be life that grows from it, hopefully just as Omishto just as the ferns she will grow after her own disaster.