Similarities Between The Story Of Green Rowet By Mary Rowlandson

One of the themes used in the book is of racism towards the Natives. An example used in the book is of Edward Sheriff Curtis who was a photographer of 1900s. Curtis was interested in taking pictures of Native people, but not just any Native person. “Curtis was looking for the literary Indian, the dying Indian, the imaginative construct” (King, 2003; pp. 34). He used many accessories to dress up people up “who did not look as the Indian was supposed to look” (King, 2003; pp.34). He judged people based on his own assumptions without any knowledge of the group and their practices. Curtis reduced the identity of the Native Americans to a single iconic quintessential image of what Native meant to white society. The idea related to the image of this group of people during the 1900s consisted of racism in terms of the “real looking Indian”. This is not

Though Janice still lived on the property her Grandfather had owned, the house was in disrepair and not suitable for habitation. Mary, accompanied by Janice, entered the old home. The house was structurally unsound, so they carefully made their way into the attic. Mary located the trunk with Janice’s assistance. Once the trunk was located, Mary opened the trunk to find the notebook containing the “Bigfoot Dictionary.” This convinced Mary of the authenticity of the notebook, and that Janice was telling the truth about her experiences. Mary took the notebook. She researched the words and phrases contained in the notebook. Mary discovered that most of the words documented in the notebook were Cheyenne. There were also some Cherokee words.

The author of Green Gulch conveys that when in a group, one can be overwhelmed by pressure that brings them to savage extremes. After being lost, a young boy joins a group of kids he has never seen before. The group is nice and offers to bring the boy home. They stop at a sanctuary of a pond. There is a turtle in the pond that is violently murdered by the boys after one decides to throw a rock. Then, the group turns on the new boy. They beat him maliciously and leave him stranded on the road to get home. As, the boy look backs he can’t think of what went wrong, “They stood in a little group watching me, nervous now, ashamed a little at the ferocious pack impulse toward the outsider that had swept them.” Obvious from the boys’ reactions, it was the fault of the group impulse. After the murder of turtle, the adrenaline and riot of the group caused them to turn on the next vulnerable target. They were not acting as they should have, and the realize that afterwards. They were nervous. Even though there is not immediately an adult around, they are nervous because society has conditioned them to behave. They are also ashamed. The shame shows that they are nice boys. They feel bad. This shows that the vicious group mind set was so strong that it came over there good personalities and conscious. However, there is only this slight remorse after the fact. This does not make up for the brutal murder and beating that they had dealt. Being in a group turned them into

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

“We live the Old Way” are the words that author, Catherine Knutsson, uses to introduce readers to the fascinating culture of the Métis Indians in her intriguing book, Shadows Cast by Stars (1). Set in an unspecified future, sixteen year old protagonist, Cassandra Mercredi, finds herself and her family fleeing from the mainland of UA and going to find refuge on “The Island” (Knutsson 21). They have been targeted because they are “marked by the precious Plague antibodies in [their Native American] blood” (Knutsson 1). According to Essentials of Young Adult Literature, Knutsson’s book is categorized as American Indian and Indigenous Literature (Short, Tomlinson, Lynch-Brown, and Johnson 177). After analyzing the text, the categorization is correct because the story is told from the perspective of the protagonist, Cassandra, who provides readers are given insight into the cultural beliefs and values of the Métis tribe. Additionally, her character communicates the traditional roles of men and women within the tribe, while integrating cultural details that provide authenticity to the story.

“Diverging Paths and all That” written by Maryanne O’Hara, has a very clear and concise setting- a supermarket. The setting creates an atmosphere, illuminate characters, and organize the plot. What it does not do is have a deeper meaning. It is just a setting, a location that the readers can connect to. Almost every reader can reminisce or imagine the glory days of strip malls and shopping centers before the Amazon and Ebay giants strangle the physical shopping centers. The location is a very romanticised 1970’s American setting. During the time of the story, Nixon is resigning and all of America drops what they are doing to watch him. The two robbers use Nixon to justify their actions, “what the hell, even the President is a crook…” Through

Charles Waddell Chesnutt is an African American writer who writes many novels and short stories about African American superstitions and folklore of the south in “The Conjure Woman”. “The Conjure Woman” is a collection of folk tales that explore complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War. Chesnutt writes these stories in vernacular forms to represent the oral act of storytelling and express Chesnutt’s black identity and cultural heritage of African American people. Chesnutt's folktales are narrated either to teach the readers lessons or to represent how African American people are treated by whites as second class citizens. The following essay concentrates on superstitions and folklore in Chesnutt’s stories, and how Chesnutt uses African American folklore

The violence over the main character is very usual in Flannery O'Connor stories in order to experience conversion. The most important purpose of O'Connor was to shock her smug protagonists, like Mrs. May, out of their complacency and bring them violently into an awareness of their inadequacy before the eyes of God. The violence which accompanies the revelation of God's grace and the agent of this grace (the bull) is not a penance; for O'Connor, this violence is more similar to a blessing.

The mother carries her pride for her family, culture and her heritage. When Laetitia and her mother are saying their good byes at the border, her mother tries one last time to remind her about the reserve and how you would not need to go anywhere else when you have everything on the reserve but also the different languages that were spoken in this phrase. “You can still see the mountains from here”, my mother told Laetitia in Blackfoot. “Lots of mountains in Salt Lake,” Laetitia told her in English.” Here the mother is speaking in her native tongue, while Laetitia is just talking in English, another example of how the mother brings about her culture. The mother identifies herself as Blackfoot as she keeps going back and forth to the borders. She clearly refuses to adopt the nationality of either a Canadian or an American, rather claiming on her Blackfoot status as a person who belongs in both countries. The mother seems to defy the border officials also as a lesson to teach her son about her Blackfoot identity and values. Her son is the one who is travelling along with her and is also the main narrator in the story. During their ‘standoff’ periods in the nightfall of the story, the mother takes the time to tell him Blackfoot tales of the Coyotes as they study the patterns of the stars. (King, 144) The mother is a cautious story teller and after she is allowed to continue her

Mary Rowlandson believed the Native Americans were savage, blood-thirsty creatures that were either going to kill or be killed. In her story, she supports her claim by using vivid imagery of a major event that took place during her lifetime. A very interesting quote from Rowlandson’s literature is “It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out” (Rowlandson). This quote uses an incredible amount of imagery and allows the reader to see just how Rowlandson feels about the natives.

Like a coin dropped between the cushions of a couch, traditional oral storytelling is a custom fading away in current American culture. For Native Americans, however, the practice of oral storytelling is still a tradition that carries culture and rich history over the course of generations. Three examples of traditional oral stories, “How Men and Women Got Together”, “Coyote’s Rabbit Chase”, and “Corn Mother”, demonstrate key differences in perspectives and values among diverse native tribes in America.

     Throughout Ceremony, the author, Leslie Silko, displays the internal struggle that the American Indians faced at that time in history. She displays this struggle between good and evil in several parts of the book. One is the myth explaining the origin of the white man.

Perpetuation of Native American Stereotypes in Children's Literature Caution should be used when selecting books including Native Americans, due to the lasting images that books and pictures provide to children. This paper will examine the portrayal of Native Americans in children's literature. I will discuss specific stereotypes that are present and should be avoided, as well as positive examples. I will also highlight evaluative criteria that will be useful in selecting appropriate materials for children and provide examples of good and bad books. Children will read many books as they grow up.

I agree that we will never be able to read and fully understand literature that is written from a different culture and time period. There were so many things that I did not understand in all three stories that were meant directly for someone of that culture to understand. Without the footnotes, I would have been completely confused about the context of the story. For example in the story The Winnebago Trickster Cycle, I did not know that it was unacceptable in the Winnebego culture for a woman to court a man for marriage, as well as, eat in a ravenous and greedy fashion. This story is using the Trickster to explain to those listening, what behavior not to partake of and what kind of behavior is seen as unacceptable in their culture. This is

The two short stories Anne of Green Gables and Cheaper by the Dozen have fathers who both truly care for their children in their own way. The two fathers have some similarity, however, they have some differences as well. In the text “Anne of Green Gables” has a father like who’s name is Mattew who needs help with his farm, Green Gables. Mattew and his sister both run the farm but are starting to need some help with it.