Leanne Howe 's Miko Kings

It is a third person omniscient narrator, which gives the reader an opportunity to gain insight into the minds, thoughts and perceptions of Munda and the white men. This allows the reader to empathise with the characters. The narrator is implicit, as he/she does not participate in the story. The events are seen from both the black and the white people’s points of view, which clarifies the reasons behind the hostile relationship between these two population groups. In this way, the reader becomes acquainted with both sides of the story. The narrator’s own attitude to the events and to the characters is not shown, but the sympathy lies with Munda and the

The author moves to her actual realization that she has been misunderstood her entire lifetime along with the Western world by extending her vocabulary and appealing to emotional diction. These are seen clearly through “’aina” meaning culture and “the great bloodiness of memory: genealogy” (Trask 118). These few examples show how her language is connecting with the audience on an emotional level by using native terms and powerful language such as “bloodiness.” She appeals to the ideals of pathos by employing meaningful words when describing the traits of her people. She

Although stories are a universal art form, they hold a more significant role in Native American culture, and literature. This occurs due to the millennia spent in isolation from the rest of the world, and having stories as the main source of entertainment. Thomas King’s statement, “stories can control our lives,” is an important notion, because it embarks on the idea of molding the diseased into more interesting versions of themselves. The statement is prevalent in many pieces of literature which fuse reality into the imagination, and cause people to lose themselves in the fictitious realm. Native literature is all closely related, and they all hold messages within their stories that show their great culture; both the good and the bad. Story

For her safety, Jacobs changed the names of all the characters and she is represented by the name Linda. This was to help her steer clear from facing severe consequences for writing a story about her life. The publication can be classified as social history because it discusses the major issue of slavery, based off of personal stories mainly about the author but, also about the people that associated with her. In one of the chapters, Linda describes an incident in which a slave that she knew was tortured because he attempted to run away. For several days, he was locked up in a cotton gin and was kept in there till he died. A slave that was sent to bring him water found his body rotting away. This occurrence helped publicize and back up the atrocity of slavery that is a major issue. After Linda ran away, she sent letters to her master and her grandmother that appeared to be mailed from New York. This was to make her master believe that she was staying there and not laying low in her grandmother’s attic. Linda’s master was obsessed

In addition, Katie’s use of diary entries at the end of each chapter gives readers a better idea of her experiences in Uganda, and help to tie the novel together. In one entry titled “God of the Impossible” from Sunday, February 8, 2009, Katie writes, “This is my life. My real life. People say to me sometimes, ‘There’s no way that is real, right? You do know how to tell a story, though!’ Let me tell you, as I fall onto my bed at the end of the night, I look up at the sky amazed and wonder, ‘No way is this real, right?’ Yes. It is” (Davis 151). What makes entries like these so important in understanding Katie and her novel is that while Katie wrote her novel looking back on her experiences thus far, her diary entries were written in the midst of her journey. Katie’s feelings about her unique new lifestyle are directly revealed to the reader, giving much insight as to what Katie really thought about during her beginnings in Uganda. The

The book is written in narrative flow and shows Pocahontas’s development from a little girl to a grown woman. The author is showing how big of an impact a woman made to her people and culture. Even at the age of nine she was a main concern of her people because her father was Powhatan, the paramount chief. At that time she experienced strangers who came to her father’s kingdom in big ships. As the story progresses, she is more and more as a greatly influential person. Townsend portrays that she is the one who saved John Smith’s life. She also explains who Kocoom is and his relationship ties to Pocahontas.

tyrannical regime comes to an end and Lina and the other survivors are able to return to Lithuania.

LeAnne Howe turned this book into a story that showed what the American Indians had to go through. The American Indians had to re-create themselves because the time period where this took place was when Oklahoma was becoming a state which meant the US government was tearing apart their land and redistributing it to the white people that came in.

Storytelling is a large component of Native American’s culture. Storytelling has the ability to connect people, events, and things to each other which transcends racial and temporal boundaries. Van Camp transcends the binary’s boundaries through storytelling, bringing Native traditions and events into the modern world. For example, Larry is a Dogrib, yet he is not living on a reservation and more or less seems to know little about his Indigenous identity, “Due to the novel's multiethnic small-town setting and his parents' residential schooling, Larry seldom receives cultural knowledge that might explicate... a traditional Dogrib social structure” (McKegney). However, through storytelling, specifically oral storytelling, Van Camp sets up a connection between Larry and his tribal knowledge. Larry is told his tribe’s creation story which serves as a vessel to deliver tribal knowledge into Larry’s modern world. The creation story can also be seen to transcend boundaries between the different Indigenous tribes of Jed, Larry, and Johnny. Larry is also seen to share stories with the readers as well as the characters of Juliet, and Johnny. Juliet is white and learns of an Indigenous story through Larry, “I closed my eyes and decided to let the story lead. I was just the voice, and I knew the story would tell itself.” (Van Camp 113). The story connected Juliet with

This novel completely neglects the conventional idea of narration and takes on its own definition of a narrator and their voice. The first story mentioned in the novel is Sasha’s we discover that she is a kleptomaniac and has been so for a long time. When Alex discovered her table of “collected items” it is described;

The story is also written in first person point of view. Consistently using words like I and, my. Displaying that all the events in the story happened to her particularly. Example and solid evidence is when Martinez says”

Zlata Filipovic was just living a normal eleven year old life. She started writing in her diary about events that happened in her life. It was published into “Zlata’s Diary.” Then something happened that would change her life forever. It was the key to her diary.

Tracks, by Louise Erdrich, explores the interrelated lives of families living on an Indian reservation struggling to keep what little remains of their lands. However, unlike the traditional novel with a single narrator, Tracks comes to life through the words of two narrators: Nanapush and Pauline. While the use of two narrators with different personalities, agendas, and levels of involvement in their own cultures forces readers to question the reliability of the contrasting perspectives, it ultimately creates a more accurate story.

Lena's mother was able to predict some major events that were occur. Harold is Lena's husband and he is rich but selfish and picky. Chapters beginning take place in San Francisco. Lena takes her mother to her new apartment which was 20 min drove from her mother's house, but she is scared to show her the new house because her mother always predict bad things that affects her and her family. Lena’s mother starts to point out flaws in the house. This makes Lena wonder that if her mother can see the flaws in her marriage. Lena is scared because Arnold died of measles and Lena thought that her mother was going to sense it because Lena didn't want to marry Arnold. Lena’s marriage with Harold was falling apart. On the fridge there was a list of thing

The narrative voice is the niece of Aunt Jennifer, who therefore acts as a feminine figure, and a representation of the