Stereotypes In Little Big Man By Thomas Berger

People have their own perspective of people, but when it comes to a general idea of a group of people, stereotypes come into play. In Little Big Man by Thomas Berger, the descriptions of the Indians and the whites are stereotypical. In the nineteenth century, in which this story took place, many Indians were seen as savages, while whites were seen as more reasonable. One circumstance that points out this stereotype was when Jack was taken back to the Cheyenne because of some misunderstanding of a horse. Jack said, “I begun to get nervous then, for though among Americans you tend to find people the less frightening the better you know them, the same wasn’t true for Indians in my experience, with whom prolonged relations only led to the awareness