Family For Family In Saul Indian Horse By Richard Wagamese

In the first chapter, the point of view continues to switch between characters. Each time it changes, it gives you a glimpse into the character’s thoughts when they’re on their way to Indian Island. Each character has been told they’re going to the island for different reasons. It’s seen they are being conned into some sort of situation to go to Indian Island. Each of them don’t understand what they’re about to walk into. In the second chapter, when they arrive at the mansion, each guest goes to their rooms. One of the guest, Vera Claythorne, sees there is a nursery rhyme that she knows of from her childhood called, “Ten Little Indians”. It seems each of the guest have the poem hung on their wall. I find it interesting that the nursery rhyme

Over the decades, more than 150000 Aboriginal kids attended residential schools; over 4000 of which have died while living there. In the novel Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese, Saul, a young Aboriginal boy, struggles with the hardships that residential schools have on him throughout his life. The schools have impacted, and continue to impact Aboriginal Peoples all through Canada. Residential schools have an extreme effect on family members and family quality, indigenous culture and religion, and the mental well being of an individual.

"Double-consciousness this sense of always looking at one 's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one 's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Dubois, 8). W.E.B. Du Bois had a perfect definition of double-consciousness. The action of viewing one 's self through the eyes of others and measuring one 's soul. Looking at all of the thoughts good or bad coming from others. This is present in the main character of the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. The Absolutely True Diary is about a boy named Junior that is fourteen years old and living on the Spokane Reservation. Junior was born with too

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, written by Sherman Alexie, is a novel describing a 14 year old’s journey throughout high school. In the story, Junior, the main character, is faced with multiple obstacles in his life: Hydrocephalus, poverty, and the target of bullying. Despite the world being against him, Junior’s multiple traits helps him greatly when it comes to the adversity that accompanies his migration from the Wellpinit Reservation to Rearden.

In the beginning of Saul 's life,he had many problems.Some of them he could fix and others, he couldn’t.Saul tried to make

In order to be a survivor, one must be able to cope well with obstacles and not give up when life starts to get difficult. By examining Richard Wagamese’s book, Indian Horse, it is obvious that Saul is a survivor. Saul Indian Horse, the main character in the novel Indian Horse, proves what it takes to be a true survivor based on his personality traits, how he deals with conflicts and his sense of resiliency. Firstly, in the novel Indian Horse, Saul’s smart nature shows he is a survivor when he chooses to reveal himself as a boy that is void of feeling while at the residential school.

Poverty hits children hardest in the world. When I was younger, the Armenians had faced the hard facts of poverty after they break up with the Soviet Union, war with Azerbaijan, and a devastating earthquake. My family moved into our motherland Armenia while our nation was going through these huge dramatic changes. Furthermore the poor economy and inflation destroyed numerous hopes and futures. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, Arnold Spirit, describes his hardships involving poverty living on Spokane reservation. The people on the reservation are stuck in a prison of poverty. They are imprisoned there due to lack of resources and general contempt from the outside world, so they are left with little chance for success. Like Arnold, I also went through hardships regarding poverty and education.

Saul mentions several times throughout the novel that the players treat him with disrespect and greet him with violence. But, defying the odds, Saul remains level-headed and tries to not let the other players’ foolish behaviour affect his performance during the game. However, the abuse on the ice becomes too much for him to handle which makes him act out in uncontrollable ways. This shows how all the abuse affects Saul and makes him act out in equally violent ways. Furthermore, Saul is battling with an addiction, he thinks about how “it’s funny how bartenders tell you to drink up. When you’re lost to it as I was, you always drink down...that’s how I wound up in the hospital” (Wagamese 189-190). This self-inflicted act becomes very dangerous and Saul ends up in the hospital because of it. The pressure and abuse he suffers through finally seems to have won. Saul has now wandered down a dark road and there’s no telling whether he will recover or not. Saul discovers alcohol and uses it as an escape from reality. He quickly finds himself addicted and it seems as if this has gone on for too long. This makes Saul, who was once a very

“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.

Institutional structures have the power to configure adolescent growth through repression and liberation. The capability that adolescents have to create their own destiny and choose their own social institution can be limited, but not impossible. In Trites article, “Do I dare disturb the universe?” the author argues that kids have personal power, whether they acknowledge it and use it to their own advantage or not. Michel Foucault declares that “Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere” (Trites). Power is inevitable, there will never be no such thing as power in this world; it will never diminish or fade. Trites also conveyed that, “power not only acts on a subject but, in a transitive

In the comic strip “Transcending” I’ve highlighted the transition of activities Saul participates in order to escape/ease his pain and trauma hockey, books, bush, and alcohol. This PTSD originates from his experience of the Canadian Genocide of Indians as an Indian. Firstly, Saul restrained his departure from his family with books. At residential school, books allow himself to be restrained when his emotions were burning him from the inside. “What I let them see was a quiet, withdrawn boy, void of feeling.” The books about hockey allowed Saul to be distracted from the reality of his deceased and missing family members. Books also took away the depression from the teachings and events of residential school. Unlike his classmates, Saul did not

We first met Saul in chapter 7:58 as the one at whose feet the robes of those who stoned Stephen were laid. Acts 8:1, he consented to Stephen’s death. 8:3, he began to destroy the church by entering the homes of the believers, and dragging off men and women to prison. Saul greatly persecuted the early church and caused the believers to be scattered. We would see in 9:1 Saul was breathing threats and murder against the Lord’s disciples. Chapter 9:1-2 he sought warrants from the Jewish authorities to arrest and bring back to Jerusalem anyone who is following Jesus. We learn more about Saul in his personal testimony. In 26:9, He did many things hostile to the name of Jesus. Acts 26:10, he voted for the execution of believers. Verse 11, he punished the believers in their synagogues and forced them to blaspheme the Lord. It’s obvious that Saul hated Jesus and all who followed Him as hated the gospel. He was a murderer and zealous for the law but on the path to hell because he did not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Saul believed that his actions met the God’s approval because he faithfully maintained the beliefs of the Jewish religion. However, in this text we will see the transformation of his life and his name would later change to Paul. After Jesus he would become the greatest theologian, missionary, teacher and pastor and God would use him to start churches all over the world. He would

Judaism is one of the oldest religions that is still practiced today. The first Jewish bibles were recorded around 1000 B.C.E. Judaism was the first monotheistic religion in the world. They believe in one God and that they are his “Chosen People”. The kingdom of Israel was also established by 1000 B.C.E. The Kingdom of Israel had three kings who were very important to both the kingdom and the Jewish religion.

Fasting and Feasting is a novel written by Anita Desai that narrates the story of the protagonist, Uma, and her family’s life. The novel is divided in two parts. Part one deals with Uma’s life in India until the tragic death of her cousin Anamika, and part two tells the story of Uma’s brother, Arun, as he spends his summer with the Pattons, a typical American suburban family. Throughout the novel, Desai explores the theme of family life and uses the novel’s two settings, America and India, to compare and contrast the values and customs that constitute each respective culture’s family life. At first glance, American and Indian families are foils of one another because of the relationships between the family members that composed them. As

Almost all teens experience some sort of an identity crisis. They struggle with finding a clearer sense of themselves. Arnold Spirit Jr., a 14-year-old reservation Indian, faces an identity crisis when he leaves his reservation to go to school in Reardan, a town inhibited by white people. To begin, Arnold moves between different settings, and when he does, there is a change in his identity. Moreover, there is a change in his character as he moves between cities. Finally, Arnold experiences an identity crisis as well as conflicts with his community. In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, the author uses literary elements to emphasize that one’s racial and ethnic identity changes depending on the social surrounding.