Analysis Of David Saul 's ' Indian Horse '

Residential school is like a nightmare for the Indigenous people during the last century. In Richard Wagameses’s book, Indian Horse, telling the story of Saul’s life who is an Ojibway boy being taken to residential school. The novel mainly talks about how Saul uses hockey and alcohol to find healing and escapism and how he investigates his character. The theme of healing and escapism is mainly explored through Saul’s story of hockey and alcohol. Additionally, Saul’s character has changed from an innocent Ojibway boy into a precocious adolescent into a chaotic adult to become a dynamic character.

At St. Jerome’s Indian Residential School, Saul sees the lonely world, which crams on him like a black hole with no light, however it creates a determination for him to endure. As he is expeditiously thrown into the vast world of a different religion, he quickly realizes,

Thousands of First Nations children were kidnapped and imprisoned in residential schools during the 1960s. These children were then forced to renounce anything in relation to their traditional lives, such as their native tongue. These objectives were often achieved in a barbaric and inhumane manner. Richard Wagamese’s “Indian Horse” recounts the fictional story of Saul Indian Horse’s struggle through residential school along with the residual effects on his adult life. Within the novel, Wagamese highlights how one’s traumatic past can have tremendous physical and mental effects, especially in the absence of support.

First off, Saul and Clary grow stronger because of their experiences with the conflict of losing their families. Some of this conflict is man vs man and some is man vs nature. When Saul’s parents leave him with his grandmother so they can give Ben a proper funeral, they never come back. This is known

Saul experiences a tremendous amount of change throughout the novel, and becomes an intelligent, and creative individual, from learning the ways of the Ojibway people. Saul begins to lose trust in his family, due to them leaving him in the bush. Saul loses his innocence throughout his time spent in residential school. Saul begins to change form a kind, warm young boy to an angry alcoholic. Saul's life is altered forever through the people he meets. In the novel Indian Horse, by Richard Wagamese, the character of Saul Indian Horse forms a variety of relationships within his life. Although Saul experienced difficult relationships, he was still able to form positive and loving relationships within his life.

Saul first experiences isolation when the white men take him to St-Jerome’s residential school after the death of his grandmother. At this point in his life, he is isolated from his family and his culture, “In what seemed like an instant, the world I had known was replaced by an ominous black cloud” (47), he says, when he realizes that his life would be never be the same after stepping through the doors of that school. St-Jerome’s attempts to change aboriginal children into learning the ways of the white people, even though these children are not white and will never be white; this leaves them with a sense of emptiness and without identity. This loneliness was the root of all Saul’s problems. The life he once knew was completely lost and everything has changed. Even though he is surrounded by many other aboriginal children at the school, still, he is excluded: “At St. Germ’s the kids called me “Zhaunagush” because I could speak and read English” (48). This makes his sense of isolation even deeper; he is excluded by his own people.

This is an example of what can happen after Saul leaves the school. During the years of residential schools,

In Richard Wagamese's Indian Horse, the main character, Saul, experiences certain traumas that would normally launch him straight into adulthood. Instead, Wagamese shows the transition from the innocence of childhood to adulthood and how Saul is able to come to terms with his past by using certain motifs and symbols such as his vision, hockey, alcohol and circles.

Saul is an incredibly gifted hockey player. His talent allows him to find opportunities outside of school, on a local hockey team. He plays and wins often for the team. However, he faces discrimination because of his identity as an Indigenous person. It is a subtle, crafty kind of racism.

“Holy Cow, An Indian Adventure,” by Sarah MacDonald, is a book written describing Sarah’s experience living in India. She goes through many tough times and endures life changing experiences that eventually make her the person she is meant to be. In this book Sarah relates India to western perspective several times. India and the United States do have similarities, India and the United States both are run by a Democracy, they both have very strong cast systems; both have their own “Hollywood” films, and both places have many religions mixed within.

All Canadian's need to know of Canada's dark past. For many years aboriginal children were put through boarding school ran by religious institutions, these schools were called residential schools. The novel "Indian Horse", by Richard Wagamese inculpates perfectly what the kids went through before, during and after residential schools. The book also gives insight on current issues that the survivors of the school face after they are dropped into the real world. It is also important that older generations read this novel as older people have not learned about residential schools while they were in school. Canadians need to read "Indian horse" by Richard Wagamese in order to discover why reconciliation is needed for the Aboriginal people of Canada.

The impoverished conditions in which the residents of this community live are difficult based on the surrounding violence and discrimination they face. Tre, Ricky’s best friend, is able to survive the surrounding violence and discrimination through his father’s sensational leadership; he therefore knows what to do in situations he faces among his friends. However, his friends are not so lucky. For example, Dough doesn’t have great leadership or a father figure, but is raised by a single mother who is determined to get her children to succeed; nevertheless, her main focus is Ricky because he has the most potential; he is an athlete who has trouble in school, but obtains All-American in football, looking to get a scholarship to USC. The mother’s lack of leadership over

Residential schools have created a ripple effect causing loss of culture and identity. It has been heartbreaking to discover the stories of

He wanted to understand the socio-economic problems in the village. Therefore became close friends with the locals, like Merle Kinbona, the protagonist of this novel. He became heavily involved in the life there that Merle said he was becoming “a rumhead just like those others down at the shop” (Marshall 262) with whom he socialized with on a nightly basis. However, when Harriet found out Saul was too “close” with the locals, she persuaded the foundation responsible for funding Saul’s research to remove him from the project and put the project on hold.

Hosseini’s advantage is that his way of revealing the countless hidden qualities of life are throughan “open endings”. The “sky was curdled grey burdened with lumps of cloud” reinforces the idea that there remains an underlying tone of guilt. The word curdled gives us a sense of uneasiness as Amir’s world may begin to be at peace, yet the world surrounding him is crumbling before his eyes. Even though Amir may have found redemption by accepting Sohrab as his own, the tragedies taking place in Afghanistan will live on. The illustration of the “slow dusty caravan” illustrates to the audiencethe idea that acceptance is the only way forward and life goes on, although Amir’s efforts of creating a better life for himself and his family are his main