How Does Linda Lark Present The Native American Values In The Round House

Values are beliefs that certain things are good and important which a group of people share. Another way of saying this is a group’s values are what the group thinks are important. For the Indians in Pocahontas, the important things are the villages and the families. So they value friendship and their homes. They also valued the land. The Indians believed in the land and learned about it, not just used it. For them the important things were to take care of their families. While the Governor of Virginia valued gold and power. The important thing for him was to get lots of money so he could go back to England and be rich and powerful. It’s the same thing in the scene where Smith shows Pocahontas the piece of gold. She doesn’t know what it is and doesn’t think that it is important. But for him, that is a very important part of

Values are defined as the importance or preciousness of something. A long time ago, around the early 16 century the puritans came to the America they live with the Native Americans and had a set of values they both believed in and lived by. One may not expect to find many similarities between both of these groups, but there are many. The Native Americans were not very different than the Puritans. Native Americans valued many things like religion, family, and the concept of things being balanced. Specifically, they strongly appreciated their family. Puritans similar to the Native Americans, the Puritans were more civilized and valued family, life, religion.

Linda Lark was objectively one of the best characters in the book. Left to die by parents who didn’t want the “broken” child, she begins her life of abnormality. The love from the Wishkob’s literally reshaped her into a fully formed person and allowed her to grow up with an almost normal life, complete with sibling rivalries and knowing true parental love. Despite being taken away from and brought back to the Wishkob’s repeatedly, Linda knew who her family was. However, she always felt like there was something, someone else. This presence followed her all her life, unlabeled, until later when her birth mother reached out to her for a kidney that would save her twin’s life. Linda, in thinking the presence was her long-lost brother, felt a strong urge to help and

Linda treats everything like its inevitably going to happen. She goes with the flow and lets everything go against her. This is one of her major flaws is not defending her self or the actions of others that oppose her view.

Kingsolver structures Taylor’s dynamic behaviors in ways that explain the definition of family. She appeals to the reader that Taylor’s conservative yet caring personality allowed her to determine what an abandoned Indian child means in her life. Kingsolver incorporates this shift of personality in order to appeal to the reader that a loving family isn’t made up of genes rather love and care. When Taylor left Kentucky, she carried the goal of avoiding pregnancy or, in another word, family along with her. Taylor described herself as “useless,” (81) and considered herself “crazy to think that whisking Turtle away from the Cherokee Nation was doing her a favor” (81). Taylor thought one’s well-being was impacted by no other but blood relatives, similar to how Taylor’s confidence and self-esteem were high due to her mother’s praises, even if they weren’t truthful. Taylor always accepted her mother’s praises because she thought her mother was always right (236). Likewise, she’d thought Turtle’s development would nourish better from the nurture of her birth relatives. However, Taylor later realizes the impact

Values relate to our personal principles, morals, and ideals—that is, what we consider to be important.Each person is unique, with their own personal values and beliefs shaped by a number of factors that include culture, religion, and personal experiences.We value each person as an individual, respect their aspirations and commitments in life, and seek to understand their priorities, needs, abilities and limits.

Becky McKelva and Fay are immensely different in the way that their society views them. Where the people of Mount Salus view Becky as an upstanding, revered citizen, they view Fay almost as a menace to the town. The town’s people perceive fay to be an obnoxious woman who only thinks of herself. In their eyes and in Laurel’s, she will never be able to live up to Becky’s exceptional life. In contrast, the entire town loved and respected Becky, before and after she

During this whole ordeal the relationship with her grandmother proves to be a major key that holds her life and family together. Aunt Martha(grandmother) was always there for Linda. A free black woman she was respected for her character and beloved within her community. She was the source of inspiration and spirituality to young Linda and was always there in need of comfort or help. She tried on multiple occasions to buy her granddaughters freedom but failed. Linda loved and appreciated her: “She was so loving, so sympathizing! She always met us with a smile, and listened with patience to all our sorrows. She spoke so hopefully, that unconsciously the clouds gave place to sunshine.” (Jacobs, 15). By harboring her granddaughter as a fugitive for seven years in her attic she greatly risked the safety of her own life. When Linda was in hiding, or on the run, Aunt Martha provided a comforting and watchful home for little Benny and Ellen (Linda’s children). She always remained a stable rock for that family no matter the difficulties.

The civilized population is used to the presence of beautiful ladies, their kind of beautiful, but Linda did not belong in their world, “they had never seen a face that was not youthful and taut-skinned, a body that has ceased to be slim and upright”, essentially she was an outsider (Huxley). Questions among their society were thrown at each other, shocked yet again because “they had never seen a face like hers before… Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility”(Huxley). The way linda was treated is seen throughout communities around the world, making some feel unworthy, and scared of exposing oneself to a nature where no one is appreciated and treated

In ‘Death of a Salesman’ Miller writes Linda’s situation as being one of an exceptionally difficult and intractable nature; we see that she is aware of Willy’s suicidal tendencies as well as his financial issues and yet keeps them to herself. Stuck in an invariably volatile relationship, Linda is shown to be doing her best for her husband and sons, yet struggles with the burden of responsibility. She seeks solace in what she deems to be the only way possible; almost by ignoring the problem rather than confront them. Whilst some may denounce Linda as a form of tragic villain, it seems more fitting to view her as a victim of circumstance, her

“Well, here, nobody’s supposed to belong to more than one person. And if you have people in the ordinary way, the others think you’re wicked and anti-social” (page 121). The people of the reservation (savages) are traditional people who believe in marriage. However, in the brave new world, the act of sex is controlled by a system of social rewards for promiscuity and lack of commitment. Linda begins with a complete disadvantage due to the mentality she gained from living in the brave new world. Linda’s conditioning unable her from adapting which led her to become an outcast. Linda was unable to create a strong bond as a mother or friend to her son because she believed she broke social order. Instead, Linda maintained an intense mixture of love and revulsion towards her

(Miller 13) she is trying to have denial that something is wrong with willy. Linda will also have issues with accepting something is wrong with her husband. This will ruin their

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection - by her silence and her support, she unwittingly cooperates

The social norm is what classifies people as either normal or crazy .The play, A Doll's House, written by Henrik Ibsen portray the conflicts that the characters face. Nora who is married to Torvald is constantly patronized by the man in her life. Torvald calls her by nicknames such as, “My little skylark”, “My little squirrel”, “ My pretty little pet”. The nicknames he uses for his wife, all contain the adjective of little, portraying that Nora is like a child who he must watch over and instruct. Torvald quotes, “Oh, Nora, Nora, how like a women.” (pg.173). Torvald states this because Nora would rather spend the money now, instead of saving it for more important things later. He also is referring that women do not care where the money come from or who they owe, they just want to spend it. Torvald is the perfect man during the era that A Doll’s House takes place in; he supplies the essentials for his family, and he also is the superior. Torvald was accepted by society because he is the social norm, however his wife Nora, was not what society considered normal. Nora faces several; different conflicts throughout the play. Nora thinks that it is funny that her husband has obtained so much influence over so many people because she believes that she has a more prominent influence on him, and that she can persuade his thoughts to get what she wants. The social norm for women is to obey their husband and to let the man make the decisions in the relationship. Nora says to Mrs. Linde, “I've had the most extraordinary longing to say ‘bloody hell’”. The reason for Nora’s longing is that she desire’s to make her own decisions and to be independent, however she could not stand up to Torvald until the end of the play. Seeing that she had to follow the social standard she put on an act for Torvald, so he would believe that she was they typical women who obeyed all orders from her husband. Without Torvald knowing Nora came upon a dilemma which left her with a choice to make where both options were undesirable. She could either take the money from her father or forge his signature on the IOU from Mr.Krogstad. She choose to forge her father's signature which is a felony. Dramatic Irony plays a significant role throughout the

Linda, for all her warmth and goodness, goes along with her husband and sons in the best success-manual tradition.  She tries to protect them from the forces outside and fails.  The memory of her suffering and her fidelity does not keep Willy and Happy from sex or Biff from wandering.  Miller's irony goes still deeper.  While Linda is a mirror of goodness and the source of the family's sense of identity, she is not protection