The reading called Black Elk Speaks brings out many problems that the white people did to ruin the Native Americans way of life. Black Elk is telling his story to John Neihardt and John translated it. Black Elk is telling a story about how the white people roads ruin the way of life for the Native Americans. He relies on pathos to inform us on what the white people did.…
Nicholas Black Elk, Lakota visionary and healer communicates his painful conclusion to John G. Neihardt at the end of his interviews in the following way: “[…]The nation’s hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead”(207). After he narrates the unspeakable tragedy of his nation, the concluding lines mark the tragic end of a personal life and that of a national displacement. Black Elk Speaks reads as a mourning text, commemorating a cultural loss. Black Elk attributes the loss of cultural values to the symbolic loss of the circle, the location of the Power of the World. As in nature everything moves cyclically…
In Rick Bass story the “Two Deer” there is an idea of two separate views on predators and prey. Bass created two separate worlds by having two different viewpoints between the narrator and his wife Martha. A great example of the different viewpoints Martha and the narrator is when the narrator stated when they was in college, “I was going to learn how to build roads in the forest”(168), and “she explained to me that what I was doing was bad, that road building in the west destroyed the last pieces of wilderness”(168). This is a great example because it always Bass’s audience to see that the two main characters of the story both have different back viewpoint on the materials the world/nature has to offer. The mysteries of natural world is expressed…
Black Elk talks, about a personal story, that has different characteristics of several genders. biography, testimony, and history. However, the black elk is contains of 25 chapters, which discovered black elk's early life. The story draws the black elk as a savior and glorified man that has all the power, which ensured to him since he was young. It recorded the shift of the Sioux nation from previous reservation to reservation culture,because of their engagement in the war of Little Bighorn. Black Elk provides evidence to the price where human struggle that the Sioux paid for the westward extension of the US. As an appreciation, it graves the passing of innocence and free American Indian and the current cultural rescission.…
It was 1946, Black Forest, Germany. Hitler was driving his car to the dark forest cabin. He was talking with his second in command Julius Schreck.…
Black Elk Speaks written by John Newhart is a biography of a Native American. In the biography Neihardt takes us thru Black Elk’s experiences as the Wasichus (white man) take over the land he lives on. The Wasichus have always been monsters to the Natives. Young kids see them as monsters that will get you if you misbehave and adults see them as merciless murders, due to the fact that they killed many Native women and children; Wasichus also took away culture and tradition from them. We can see through use of pathos, logos, ethos, and diction that Black Elks attitude toward the Wasichus was resentful.…
Niehardt is telling this story as a history of and for the Native American nation. He uses this story as a spiritual testament for all human kind. Going back to the story of Nicholas Black Elk and his development as a Sioux holy man. It is the story that explains a vision, a duty to fulfill the vision, and who is responsible for accepting this vision. It is a peoples scripture and a story of defeat. This story is an affirmation of the past but also is a story of hope for the future and the possibilities that present themselves for the future. As Historical evidence I think the story of battle and defeat is an accurate account. However, I’m not sure how accurate it is for a piece of historical evidence seeing as how no one truly knows who is speaking the book. Black Elk knew no English and John Neihardt knew no Lakota. Obviously this translation was difficult between two different languages let alone two different worlds. In Black Elks world there is no writing or literature so all was translated orally. Meaning many of the stories and visions of Black Elk could be true or could have been fabricated by the writer. All in all I thought the book was well written and very interesting. I think it will help our future because it tells of the consequences that occur when nothing is done. Black Elk exposes himself to the reader and therefore connects.…
Into the Wild by John Krakauer is a book about Chris McCandless and his journey in the wild. He was a smart person, but lacked certain survival skills. I believe he would have been alive if he had been more careful and studied more about wilderness survival.…
When you think of friendship you don’t typically thing of shooting one another or leaving one out in the cold while the others enjoy themselves in comfort. Well that is an exactly what the three friend Frank, Tub, And Kenny did to each other. The characters in Tobias Wolff’s “Hunters in the Snow” change their sense of morality because of their selfish need for acceptance, the end of the story ultimately challenges their justification.…
“In the Lake of the Woods” is a non-linear novel by Tim O’ Brien that consists of the themes trauma and insecurity. The protagonist of the text, John Wade is driven into insanity due to his fear of losing the love of his life, Kathy. Throughout the novel, john Wade’s secrets are exposed to the world, this being the reason that ended his career as a politician, which was the final push towards his madness. Wade was not only affected by his shattering moment in his career, but his childhood and experiences of war in Vietnam left him traumatized and feeling unworthy of love. John begins to crave love at an early stage I his life, after he meets Kathy he develops an obsession for her and becomes dependent on her love. He faces many issues with Kathy, trust being the main one; this could potentially be the reason for John’s breakdown of sanity. Although Kathy played a large role in his life and downfall, there was a whole other range of factors that took part in his fall to insanity.…
Mid evening on that October night. It was a chilly night, low forties maybe, and a little breezy. My dad and I set off for my grandfather’s property in Marshall at three in the afternoon. We were getting ready to hunt.…
Jon Krakauer's novel Into the Wild explores the mystery surrounding Christopher McCandless, a 24-year-old man who disappeared into the Alaskan wilderness in April of 1992 and never returned. McCandless’ body was found three weeks after his death from some type of poisonous berry. Christopher McCandless was born into an upper-middle class family in Virginia. In 1990, he graduated from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia with a degree in Anthropology and History. He never had a good relationship with his parents and kept them distant. This is thought to be one of the reasons he left. McCandless admired many writers, mainly David Thoreau; this also greatly influenced his choice to wander off and live in solitude. Krakauer captures Christopher McCandless story with great finesse and empathy.…
The fields were cleared, and the mules were working hard now to clear the fields for planting. It was almost noon, time to eat. They were tired, and they wanted there nosebags, filled with sweet, crunchy grain and oats. Almost time now. They were at the end of the row, and next to it, the chain tree. The chain tree was welcomed to the mules, as it meant they would get a rest. They would be chained up to it, eat, and rest for a few hours, and then go back to work, just as rested as the moment they woke up in the morning.…
My grandson came over the other night with 2 lbs of mule deer liver. He said lets have a liver feed. As he set about, getting the liver ready to cook.…
One spring day the old man decided to mate Arnuk. So the old man sends Arnuk to the people. Arnuk waited for the man to tell her something, but he didn’t say anything. Arnuk was very hungry. She walked to the men house and she whined but no one was home. The drifts were covering the trails so she used to sense of smell and found a rock ridge. Even though she was very hungry she climbed into the shelter and fell asleep. In her dream she was thinking of catching and eating a deer.…