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Anne Had In Chicken Analysis

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Maturity can be achieved by just one life changing experience. Gaining maturity can take something as meager as the love for an unwanted child. During the experience Anne had in Chicken, Anne opened her eyes to a new way she sees the world and how she interacts to those who are different. Anne grew up in an area where she never witnessed the kind of poverty that she saw in Chicken. The image opened her eyes to what’s really important in the world. She wanted to show the community of Chicken that they’re humans just like the rest of us. On Anne’s journey to Chicken she witnessed one of the Indian villages and said “ I’d thought the Indians i’d seen at Eagle were poor, but these people have nothing.” The indication that she never witnessed anything like this kind of poverty means that she never crossed such a poor area. In the entirety of the trip, Anne never showed any …show more content…

Anne met a man who was half breed, meaning half indian. Many people did not approve of him, and when Anne grew a liking towards him, the people of Chicken became infuriated. Anne grew to not care what the people thought, as she stayed firm on her belief of everyone as equals. This change in Anne’s attitude also changed the way she did things such as, including Chuck in daily activities, sticking up for the indians, and fighting for Chuck and Ethel when they were taken away. “Don’t take them away from me. What chance are they going to have there in that place? What chance will Chuck have — the chance to grow up speaking broken English and maybe get a job sweeping up at a roadhouse? Or going to work on the riverboats? What chance will Ethel have except maybe to wind up living with some white miner the way her mother did?” Anne’s distressed call to Titus to try and get them back shows she really did want them and didn’t want to lose them. Anne wanted to give them the good life that they

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