Johnny Appleseed Summary

Oral tradition is important because it molds Native American culture and offers listeners a chance to go back in time. First, oral tradition is the foundation of Native American tribes’ culture and values. For example, “No Moccasins” teaches the value of courage and humility. As discussed in the introduction to this tale, some modern Native Americans do not have access to common means of communication such as radios or televisions. This means that lessons had to be learned from within the community. Since Native Americans did not develop their own written language, the retelling of old stories is a great way to achieve this. Next, oral tradition presents people with an opportunity to experience a different time period. This is particularly true of origin myths. In origin myths listeners can travel to a timer before anyone existed. Stories told orally give this opportunity to anyone who can listen. It is necessary for people, especially for those in a tribe, to understand their own

There were a couple of stories that really stood out to me. The first was “The Story of Defender.” I really enjoyed this story because it keep me on the edge of my seat the whole time and taught about two important values of the Lakota people—bravery and humility. When Hoka was fourteen years old, he was invited on a hunting party and was given the job of guarding the camp, which contained elk meat and elk hides for many families back in their village. One day, when the hunters went out, Hoka encountered a “bear.” He considered going and looking for the hunters, but he knew if a bear came and took the meat while he was looking for them he would be responsible, so he stayed and defended the camp. After watching the “bear” scurry through the brush for a while, Hoka took a shot. He heard a slight cry and when he went to look where the bear was hiding, he saw blood. Hoka believed he had shot and wounded a bear, but when the hunters returned later that night and asked if anything happened, he simply said

Myths, legends, and folklore from the various Native American tribes that once inhabited the current day United States have puzzled and intrigued anthropologists, sociologists, and historians alike. These stories, meticulously passed down from generation to generation through the sacred art of storytelling, open a window into the past. Through this window, one can witness the cultures, belief systems, and lifestyles that thrived before European settlers ever set foot upon American soil. Although these tribes, numbering in the five hundreds, were both linguistically and regionally diverse, their stories still contains key identifying factors that typify Native American oral literature ("An Introduction"). The characteristics

Many of the Indians that left with the missionaries were gone for many years and did not know how much had changed back at home. In the story The Soft-Hearted Sioux a young man comes back home after receiving an education from the missionaries. He had left before he was taught how to survive out in the wild. He came back to dying and starving parents. He was brainwashed by the missionaries because he went against his family's customs and told the medicine man never to come back and that God will save his father. He started preaching God's words to his people and they left the community. His father was growing sicker and sicker and he needed food. His son went out everyday trying to get something but had no skills in hunting. His father had told him to go two hills over and he could find meat. With no concept of

In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Johnny, a 16 year old boy greaser, is courageous. Johnny is courageous because he has bravery, honesty, and loyalty. Bravery describes Johnny because he went into a burning church to save little kids, honesty describes Johnny because he wanted to turn himself in so Ponyboy wouldn’t get in trouble with the police officers. Johnny also has loyalty and this describes him because he stood up for Cherry at the theatre. Johnny’s courage is displayed through his honesty.

Surrounded by the crackling fire and enchanted nature of North America Native Americans told legends of early human existence, vital to their flourishing community. Among the various forms of these tales were the myth, which embodied the culture, spiritual foundation, and beliefs of many early Native American tribes. Although their myths are not told today they are still remembered and analyzed for the historical insight they provide and convey. Native American myths enabled their society to understand their relationship with the world, as well as being the fundamental attribution of their existence.

I jumped into the t-bird car and rushed to the rumble because I can never miss a fight. If you know me I was one of the best fighters of all time, to this day I have never lost a fight. We got to the rumble and here come the socs in there blue mustang, they hop out of there car and it was on. Everyone started fighting each other so I jumped in and started hitting people, the socs got scared and they forfeited and the greasers won the fight. ran to there car and . We jumped in the T-bird and were gone. We got to the hospital and johnny was laying there on his last breathe. We told him we won the fight and he smiled and was gone. I was so confused because I thought that it was all just a dream. Johnny was the only person that I loved out of everyone.

Oedipus,Theseus and the Minotaur, Odyssey, Iliad, here are Greek myth well known to be a narrative depicting supernatural beings, imaginary actions, collective fantasies, ....(Larousse).But what about the Native American Myth ? Following the reading of three Native myths , “ The eath on turtle's back” “ When Grizzles walked up right” and “ Fire” , it is possible to notice several similarities such as the myth's goal, the character and the end.

Imagine being put in a horrible situation that one has very little chance of escaping from. This happens to people all over the world and even occurs in Canada and the United States. Often this inability to escape horrible things is faced by many Native American populations. Sherman Alexie the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian made this very clear through plot, characters and the themes. Certain points in the novel stuck out which clearly represented how hard it is for Native Americans to escape poverty. Native Americans often believe that they have no control over being in poverty so they do not try to get themselves out of it. When Native Americans try to overcome poverty, they are often unsupported by tribe

The Iroquois tribe has been around since before the 1500’s. Their stories have been passed down and interpreted in many ways, to which I have learned about in American Literature.

The novel opens with the narrator introducing himself as an invisible man and remains nameless throughout the rest of the novel. He lives underground in New York, using stolen electricity to light his many light bulbs hung on the walls and ceiling. The novel is a story of him narrating his previous life up to this point. He recalls being a young boy, witnessing his grandfather on his deathbed. His grandfather was known as a timid and unprotesting man throughout his life. Both his grandparents were slaves that were freed after the Civil War. However, before dying, his grandfather confessed his anger of white supremacy to the narrator’s father and encouraged him to “agree ‘em to death”. His grandfather’s message is referred to throughout the

Have you ever played the game telephone? In this game, the beginning phrase or story the first person tells is altered or even completely changed by the time it gets to the last person. Well the same thing happens to traditions that are passed on orally from generation to generation. The information gets changed a bit each time the story is told and little parts are left out. Native Americans are known for their constant use of storytelling to tell their history and acknowledge the past. However unfortunately when the European Americans came and tried to colonize Native land and separated the Indians from their peoples it killed a lot of their traditions. Sherman Alexie’s novel portrays the struggle young Native Americans face when trying to keep their oral traditions alive, demonstrating how harshly the impact of lost tradition can be on a close knit community, and the importance of adapting to new traditions in order to survive in society.

I felt my face getting red hot as I raced down the hospital hallway. I bit my lip, slamming into the wall. I pushed myself back and ran into an open elevator. I tried to study the floor numbers but my vision was blurry from the tears building up in my eyes.

John lives in a countryside near New York city. Here he stumbles upon an injured duck since he always has been an animal lover he takes the duck home. The duck slowly heals over time and begins talking. Jimmy tells John that he can do more than just talk, he demonstrated his power by lifting a book that was across the room.

My knowledge of Native Americans culture stems from my parent’s teachings about the topic. When I was young my mother went on multiple mission trips to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. My mother came back with stories and cultural details unbeknownst to most of citizens I interact with today, one particular story described kids in the tribe that had no shoes and walked around bare foot constantly. I was appalled by this as a child and decided I too would go without shoes, this didn’t last long but this book helped me understand and provide context for my early childhood lessons about Native America culture. In the book the narrator, Junior, reminded me of the lack of health options for the reservations. Often times reservations are idiotically far away from real health care providers that have modern equipment and a surplus of the most up to date medications. This probably accounted for why it was so dangerous to do Junior’s surgery when he was a child. Later my mother explained how bad alcohol addiction was on the reservation, at the time my aunt was going through withdrawn from alcoholism. I couldn’t imagine a population of people who a majority of the people in it have an addiction to alcohol.