Anthony answers “What was the point (?) of Sam Black Crow?...”

Hannah asked this question about American Gods (American Gods, #1):

What was the point (?) of Sam Black Crow? Why did she dream of the buffalo headed person, and the thunderbirds? Why was she given so much significance at the end of the book, when she hadn't really been in the rest of it very much? And how did she get the flowers from Shadow???

Anthony This nice scene shows the porousness of the real and supernatural worlds.

Sam is a normal human. She is connected, perhaps thru reincarnation to the go…moreThis nice scene shows the porousness of the real and supernatural worlds.

Sam is a normal human. She is connected, perhaps thru reincarnation to the god creators of the past but she does not know that she is part of this. Shadow gives her the flowers as a human thank you but removes the memory of doing so because it would just require too much explanation (he just did this with a policeman for the same reason). This incident then becomes the story of the ghost flowers which Sam tells for the rest of her life. This story has the potential to become a myth.(less)

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