Comparing The Reluctant Black Hawk And The Medicine Man

Comparison of the Indian Horse with The Reluctant Black Hawk and The Medicine Man.

The novel Indian Horse, the short story The Reluctant Black Hawk, and the poem The Medicine Man all explored the same themes regarding aboriginal voices and identity, but in The Reluctant Black Hawk and Indian Horse, they have the same subject of a Canadian sport of ice hockey and characters as hockey players experienced hardships in residential school systems, and racism and discrimination during the protagonists’ growing lives according to their own stories which differ with The Medicine Man. The story explores the diversity of indigenous people in Canada. Here is the emphasis on comparing the novel Indian Horse with The Medicine Man and The Reluctant Black Hawk. They all served the same theme of aboriginal voices and identity, but in different ways. The Indian Horse and The Reluctant Black Hawk portrayed the same subject of the sport of ice hockey, which lightened Freddi and Saul’s life when they were
The difference is The Indian Horse and The Reluctant Black Hawk wrote the dark side of it, yet The Medicine Man wrote the bright side. In The Indian Horse, as the storyteller, Saul called aboriginal people “my people” to differentiate themselves from others. The writer introduced plenty of details about indigenous lifestyle and culture, in his words —--- “Our people have rituals and ceremonies meant to bring us vision”. In The Reluctant Black Hawk, Freddie described how his mother taught him to do a lot of things, in his words —--- “I guess my mother was right in bringing me up the way she did”. In The Medicine Man, the theme is the same as the first two stories, aboriginal voice and identity, but the writer told readers in a bright way about indigenous culture, the medicine man is wise with his