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That Deadmans Dance Analysis

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I have two first impressions after reading the book That Deadmans Dance. The author Kim Scott uses vivid imagery to describe the landscapes and the characters dialog. As Scott was describing the sea and the landscapes it brought back my early childhood. I spent time as an adolescent living on an Umnak Island in the middle of the Aleutian chain located in the bearing sea of Alaska. All of Scott’s imagery brought back the times I spent watching the whales migrate listening and feeling the wind and sea beat against my skin. I enjoyed remembering my youth while reading this book. My second impression was how this story mirrored the colonization of America. Who when the first settlers came here that they were greeted and welcomed by the indigenous

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