The Indian In The Child 
The Indian in the Child by Stephanie Wood Elena Qin Feb 21 B
Examine each account you find to determine its point of view. The following questions may be helpful:
1. What is the author’s background and relationship to the topic being addressed? For example, is the author a member of the First Peoples, a government official, a business person, a teacher or professor, or an environmentalist?
The author Stephanie Wood was a 17-year-old young girl when she wrote the short story. And she is a squamish which means she is a member of the First people.
2. What opinions does the author express? Which are explicit? Which are implicit?
She expresses that the pain the Aboriginal children got from the residential school was unbelievable huge which is explicit that shows from the short story. And also, she wrote the story to represent an apology of residential schools on behalf of Canadian government. She also wants us to know that the tormenting of history will never recover, but we can build up the society and community again with the heritage. These opinions are implicit.
3. Are alternative opinions expressed?
Yes, they are. At during the whole story, it tells an experience of an Aboriginal girl who was a survivor and attended residential school. Although it complains about the pain and discrimination to Aboriginal children, but at the end, she says ”the past it past, they might have killed the child in the Indian, but the Indians live on”. It shows the encouragement to future and also a release from the past pain.
4. What emotions does the author attempt to convey?
She attempts to convey a painful feeling about the Indian children for attending residential school and also the admiration as well as pride to all the First Nations who survived and made a bright future for Aboriginal people.
5. Think of words to describe the account. Consider the following: objective, passionate, balanced, evocative,
Examine each account you find to determine its point of view. The following questions may be helpful:
1. What is the author’s background and relationship to the topic being addressed? For example, is the author a member of the First Peoples, a government official, a business person, a teacher or professor, or an environmentalist?
The author Stephanie Wood was a 17-year-old young girl when she wrote the short story. And she is a squamish which means she is a member of the First people.
2. What opinions does the author express? Which are explicit? Which are implicit?
She expresses that the pain the Aboriginal children got from the residential school was unbelievable huge which is explicit that shows from the short story. And also, she wrote the story to represent an apology of residential schools on behalf of Canadian government. She also wants us to know that the tormenting of history will never recover, but we can build up the society and community again with the heritage. These opinions are implicit.
3. Are alternative opinions expressed?
Yes, they are. At during the whole story, it tells an experience of an Aboriginal girl who was a survivor and attended residential school. Although it complains about the pain and discrimination to Aboriginal children, but at the end, she says ”the past it past, they might have killed the child in the Indian, but the Indians live on”. It shows the encouragement to future and also a release from the past pain.
4. What emotions does the author attempt to convey?
She attempts to convey a painful feeling about the Indian children for attending residential school and also the admiration as well as pride to all the First Nations who survived and made a bright future for Aboriginal people.
5. Think of words to describe the account. Consider the following: objective, passionate, balanced, evocative,