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The author in this uses Native American lore and the conflict it had with the European faith at the time escalate. Using various types of figurative speech to get his point across. Also incorporating, the relations with the tribes spiritual beliefs and teachings to have sympathy with the people from the old world. With the American Indian as a narrator referring to the Europeans as “Brother”, explained what had occurred at the first pilgrims arrival all the way to the French-Indian War. I believe the author was telling the story with the concept of irony running through it. To make the reader, us , think and question human nature and wonder about how we could look a gift horse in the mouth, then break it’s legs?

In the beginning of the

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