American Adams Lonely Summary
I think they wanted the fact how lonely and possibly confused he could have been, because when he left, him and his friend did not plan exactly where they were going and what they might have needed, and I can’t imagine feeling as if the people that took the boys in, where not really expecting this “stranger” to stay with them, so when he left he had no plan of what to do except to follow the train track because he did not know english well enough to read the map. “Lonely” was a big statement word in the title.
How, in your opinion, did the author, Ian Adams, choose to tell this story? What did he write in the first two paragraphs that were meant to capture the audience’s attention? Be specific and use your own words.
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How does the author criticize the racism that the Indigenous children had to face in those times? Please use your own ideas and base it on the section below.
“It’s not so unusual that Indian children run away from the residential schools they are sent to. They do it all the time, and they lose their toes and their fingers to frostbite. Sometimes they lose a leg or an arm trying to climb aboard freight trains. Occasionally, one of them dies. And perhaps because they are Indians, no one seems to care very much. So this, then, is the story of how a little boy met a terrible and lonely death, of the handful of people who became involved, and of a town that hardly noticed.”
the author criticized the racism in such a way, by saying that the town hardly noticed, and that was probably because the citizens thought, they didn't “have a part” in his death, and that they didn't cause it, which they did, because the residential schools were not a secret, and even if it were, wouldn't they question, how this very young boy died so suddenly? Or when we read what happened to the children in residential schools now, we are disgusted with these actions, but back then it did not matter because their a different race, and even though it was far in the past it definitely does not make it
How, in your opinion, did the author, Ian Adams, choose to tell this story? What did he write in the first two paragraphs that were meant to capture the audience’s attention? Be specific and use your own words.
In the …show more content…
How does the author criticize the racism that the Indigenous children had to face in those times? Please use your own ideas and base it on the section below.
“It’s not so unusual that Indian children run away from the residential schools they are sent to. They do it all the time, and they lose their toes and their fingers to frostbite. Sometimes they lose a leg or an arm trying to climb aboard freight trains. Occasionally, one of them dies. And perhaps because they are Indians, no one seems to care very much. So this, then, is the story of how a little boy met a terrible and lonely death, of the handful of people who became involved, and of a town that hardly noticed.”
the author criticized the racism in such a way, by saying that the town hardly noticed, and that was probably because the citizens thought, they didn't “have a part” in his death, and that they didn't cause it, which they did, because the residential schools were not a secret, and even if it were, wouldn't they question, how this very young boy died so suddenly? Or when we read what happened to the children in residential schools now, we are disgusted with these actions, but back then it did not matter because their a different race, and even though it was far in the past it definitely does not make it