The Medicine Bag Analysis

A similarity noticed was the main topic of each story. Each express their view and their experience living in America. Both being girls living in an American society. Both talking about their American identity while being a mix of different ethnicities.

The story I'm choosing is The Man to Send Rain Clouds by Leslie Marmon Silko. The theme of the story is about the strength of Native American customs and traditions and bridging the gap between Native American customs and Christian customs. The author uses the setting and the mood to surface the theme throughout the story. The Man to Send Rain Clouds helps to set up a recurring theme that Silko will use in many of her other stories.

Beginning with “The Medicine Bag” , the main character is Martin. His Grandpa, who is an Indian on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, came to visit him and his family. When Martin's sister, Cheryl, saw their grandpa, she got extremely excited and couldn't wait for her friends to come and meet him. Martin on the other hand was not too excited. He

The similarities between the stories may not appear very apparent at first over closer analyzation the appear more apparent .Both stories are focused around a brother and a sister whom

The last and final difference between “the Medicine bag” and the apaches girls rite of passageis that one is for the growth of girls and the other for boys. As said many time, the Apache celebrate the growth of girls and welcmoning them into woman hood.While in the Medicine bag, Gfrandpa clearly states the the bag is to be passed onto the oldest male in the famly, which makes sence ,maturity wise.

The Apache and Lakota rite of passages have their similarities and differences in the sense of their practices. For example, the Apache rite of passage for the young women is more physical than the Lakota rite of passage. The Apache rite of passage is represented in a video while the Lakota rite of passage is represented in a book therefor, the audience may find some advantages and disadvantages when learning about each rite of passage.

Another reason that the medicine bag’s rite of passage is most significant to me because when his

As shown about these two stories indeed have similarities but with similarities come differences as well. One major difference is that In “The medicine Bag” there is a bias however Apache Girl does not have a bias. Apache Girl is told by a narrator, a narrator will not have a bias as he has no reason to. Contrary to that In ‘The Medicine Bag” It is told in first person by Martin and only shows Martin’s point of view which means there is a bias towards Martin and there is a limited perspective. However there is much more than just one difference. The two main characters have very different emotions while receiving their rites of passage. Martin is nervous about receiving the

Every rite of passage have different things that they have to do in different cultures, they also have some similarities. The Apache girl’s rite of passage and Lakota rite of passage have little similarities and many differences. The things that they have to do to become a adult are different and the things that they have to go through are the same in some ways. By the looks of it, it seems that they are different in every single way. Look closer and you can tell that they are the same in some ways.

The short story “The Medicine Bag” by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve and the video Apache Girl’s Rite of Passage by National Geographic have many differences and similarities to introduce the reader to Native American rites of passage. The most significant difference is that the short story emphasizes the emotional struggle of Martin, while the video shows the physical struggle of Dachina Cochise. This can be shown in the short story when it states, “’Thank you, Grandpa.’ I said softly...Two weeks later, I stood alone on the lonely prairie of the reservation and put the sacred sage in my medicine bag.”(Sneve 78, 79) In contrast, the video shows, “These four days mean little sleep, scant food, and the need to set aside emotion. Throughout the ordeal, she must wear a face of stoic resolve.”(National Geographic) At this point in the short story, Martin successfully receives and inherits the medicine bag from his Grandpa and goes to the reservation to put the sacred sage in the medicine bag, signifying that he is the new bearer. As shown from the video quote, Dachina Cochise is starting her trials, but she has to go with little food or sleep and keep a straight face the whole time. This proves that the type of journey they go through makes a big difference in the purpose and meaning of the story. Martin starts as embarrassed about his culture and the medicine bag because he is afraid his friends will make fun of him. Throughout the story, it emphasizes his emotional growth and he

In Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Silko uses stories to tell Tayo’s journey of recovery after the war. In Pueblo culture stories are more than just memories and myths. Stories have a healing power and a strong impact on the lives of the members of the Pueblo tribes. The people use stories as tools to improve their lives and to understand the world around them. Silko uses stories in her book to not only tell Tayo’s story but to help the reader understand the psyche of Tayo and the Pueblo people throughout the book. Much of what makes up Tayo’s core beliefs are based off of old tribal stories teaching him the importance of the world around him.

Did you ever wonder what are some similarities of the “ The medicine bag” and the video “Apache girl’s rite of passage”? Well if you did i'm going to tell you some similarities and differences of the passage “ The medicine bag” and the video “Apache girl’s rite of passage”. Now here are some similarities and difference of “ The medicine bag” and the video “Apache girl’s rite of passage”

These two stories have few things in common that can be described in a way that

One similarity shared between my family and the short story’s family involves disrespect. For an example, the oldest Daughter is very disrespectful. In the story it says “she walked up to me and kissed me on forehead” (2). That is disrespectful because that is an adult not your child. That is similar because I use to kiss my mother and my Grandmother on the cheek and For some reason my uncle said to stop learned not to disrespect because I was on the verge of loosing them both and that really hurts. Another example of the disrespect is that “Dee was rifling threw Maggie’s trunk at the end of the bed”(3). That is disrespect because she did not and her and didn't know if she had personal stuff in there, that compares to my little sister she is always going threw my stuff and touching my stuff without my permission its aggravating and very disrespectful. The last example of the disrespect is when momma called her Dee and she says “no momma not Dee Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo and “momma asked her what where Dee go” Dee said she is dead” to me that is disrespect because that name was passed own to her from her aunts and grandmother’s. That compares to my little sister because my mom calls my sister by her real name but she doesn’t like her real name and my sister kept saying she don't like that name, stop calling her that, and if my mom kept calling her that she wasn't going to answer to her so she had to go to sleep early and wash her own Landry which she didn't know how to do, the point is to not talk back to your mother like she's an friend its not cool or

Traditions and old teachings are essential to Native American culture; however growing up in the modern west creates a distance and ignorance about one’s identity. In the beginning, the narrator is in the hospital while as his father lies on his death bed, when he than encounters fellow Native Americans. One of these men talks about an elderly Indian Scholar who paradoxically discussed identity, “She had taken nostalgia as her false idol-her thin blanket-and it was murdering her” (6). The nostalgia represents the old Native American ways. The woman can’t seem to let go of the past, which in turn creates confusion for the man to why she can’t let it go because she was lecturing “…separate indigenous literary identity which was ironic considering that she was speaking English in a room full of white professors”(6). The man’s ignorance with the elderly woman’s message creates a further cultural identity struggle. Once more in the hospital, the narrator talks to another Native American man who similarly feels a divide with his culture. “The Indian world is filled with charlatan, men and women who pretend…”