Charles The Hairstyle Character Analysis

Assimilation of the native Indians occurred in different phases. The United States in the early years adopted an Indian policy that they used to build good relations with the bordering tribes which helped politically and in trading with the natives. However, they reserved to stop the good relationships in order for them to acquire more land as the moved west to expand their territory. (Keller,1983)

In Churchill's Fantasies of the Master Race, Native Americans are seen in a way that has been conjured up in a fantasy realm as explained in Churchill writing it goes on to explain,

Professor Crawford is a assertive human. He does not like to be corrected. The first time Jamal turned in an essay Professor Crawford doubted that he wrote it by himself. Crawford doubted Jamal because he was African American. Jamal is an extremely talented writer and Crawford knows, but he refuses to accept the fact and continues to bring Jamal down. Crawford wanted to see if Jamal can come up with his own words so he made Jamal write an essay with his supervision.

In Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh is a hitman tasked with recovering drug money stolen by the main protagonist, Llewelyn Moss. Chigurh is completely ruthless and he allows nothing to interfere. Chigurh kills without thought or remorse but paradoxically follows “moral” principles that are based solely on chance. In the novel, Anton Chigurh is portrayed as sociopathic, arrogant, yet ironically trustworthy.

In the chapter, “Silver Hair, Golden Years,” Rick Bragg tells us in five different stories about people who have very difficult lives. Growing up was hard for the characters in all the articles, and some faced many hardships. Although some had it much worse than others, they all struggled in similar aspects, for example socially, economically, and loneliness.

Were you ever nervous and bothered about changing the life you've lived the most? Freddie in the Shade, written by Pam Munoz Ryan, is about a young boy named Freddie who struggles with realizing the beauty of change and moving forward in life. Having a hard time with moving on, Freddie is left disagreeable but soon begins to let go of the past and becomes acceptable to new things coming his way. Freddie is an interesting character because he likes to have power over his own life but he tries to hold himself down to feel empathy for those he truly cares for. There are several events and examples throughout the story Freddie in the Shade, that express Freddie as a strong, caring, and kindhearted character.

"No study of acculturation in colonial America would be complete,"(272) exclaims James Axtell in his book the european and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America, "without giving equal thought to the question of how English culture was altered by its contacts with Native America." (272) during this anthropology and ethnohistory based work, James Axtell clearly lays on the table that this analysis inter-piled into a book wasn't meant to be simply a general assortment of Native american encounters and battles with the Europeans; but a real, real, and factual assessment of how they intermingled with one another. Showing how they were each able to interact as well as react to each others own beliefs and ways shows the

Opening a discussion about assimilation reveals a double standard that has been present between native and non-native Americans throughout our nation’s history. From the day they stepped off the boat, white settlers expected Native Americans to change and conform, while they themselves refused to do any changing at all. Before the European settlers arrived in America, the native peoples were the “American Mainstream.” White settlers came into their home, disrupted and destroyed their way of life, disrespected their culture and religion, and then asked them to adopt a European lifestyle. We established a nation in a place where

In life people have ups and downs; the characters in A Raisin in the Sun experience many highs and many lows. Throughout the story there are many decisions that the characters toss around and debate. Mama, the mother of the family, receives $10,000 which is a very large sum of money for their family. It is up to Mama to decide where the money should go. The Characters in the story developed and their true desires are shown through the choices they make. The characters are faced with many obstacles and these hurdles reveal their character and help to shape the overall plot. In Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, the struggle to overcome oppression in order to actualize one’s dream is revealed through the character developement of Walter, Beneatha, and Mama.

In “From Deep Woods to Civilization”, Charles Eastman tells his life story about his culture and how he led his life. As an Indian, Charles Eastman battled with trying to identify with his culture. Charles Eastman decided that he wanted more out of life as it relates to an education, so he went back to school. He wanted to educate the people and his culture by changing the world’s views of American Indians. Charles Eastman discussed the Indian lifestyle, economic exchange, and religious views compared to the white society. He believed that white culture is superior to Indian Culture. There was concern about the survival of American-Indian.

Assimilation, the process in being absorbed into another culture's ways, made a large impact upon the natives. This factor transformed Native Americans lives by captivating their beliefs as well as transforming the typical appearance of one. A quote from a book written by Chief Luther Standing Bear called My People, The Sioux regarding boarding schools strongly indicated the impacts that assimilation had upon natives. The quote being, “My idea was that I was leaving the reservation and going to stay long enough to do some brave deed, and come home again alive.” The originator of this quote was in hopes to do a deed in which would benefit his native culture or tribe, and return back to his reservation simply alive fulfilled with his religious beliefs. Chief Luther Standing Bear, an American author and a Lakota chief, stated that if he had not learned the ways of a white man, maybe his father would be proud of him as his nationality of nativism was taken away by assimilation. Before, during, and after

Charles Eastman is an inspirational American Indian that accomplished more than he ever thought possible. Charles was born a Santee Sioux and lived out the Santee Sioux lifestyle until he was 15. He has written thirteen books that describe his live and the experiences he went through. The period that Charles grew up in was a transition period for the American Indians. Children were taken from their families, American Indian men were hung, and most American Indians were stripped of their native beliefs and forced to follow the “white man’s way”. These were not pleasant times, to say the least, but Charles Eastman persevered though family, education, and self-determination.

“There’s a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy,” Christopher Paul Curtis. In many cases people don’t even see across the line that Curtis has pointed out. Many people only see the humor or the tragedy, or the good and bad of the world. In the book The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis, Kenny Watson only sees the good in the world until he meets Rufus and goes to Birmingham, Alabama. Kenny doesn’t recognize any of the real horrors in the world because his society has filtered everything in his life.

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger wants to be a “real man”. His dream is to become successful in business and make his family rich. However, when all his money is stolen, he becomes very pessimistic, abandoning the ideas of morality and dignity. At the end of the play, his son Travis inspires him to value his family’s pride over materialism. Over the course of the play, Walter’s view of manhood changes from someone wealthy and successful to a person who has pride and believes in human dignity.

“Indians were mean people — I'm glad I'm not an Indian, I thought." These are the thoughts of Merta Bercier, she was a young Indian at a boarding school. Native Americans were relentlessly forced to change through education, so that they may fit into the new culture, and so that they may also become citizens. Likewise, they had no choice when it came to assimilation, there was no running away. In fact, they weren’t even allowed to speak their native language. The girls at St. Lucy's and the Native Americans both experienced merciless forced assimilation evidenced by the girls and Native Americans both had to be reeducated to conform, the girls could run away if they wanted whereas the Native Americans could not, and they both had to learn a new language.