Analysis Of Joy Harjo's Last Rites For Indian Dead

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In Joy Harjo’s writing, Last Rites for Indian Dead, she argues that her ancestors shouldn’t be treated the way that they are, being put up on display at museums and even been sold to private collectors. Harjo shows emotion, uses strong and powerful diction, in order to get attention, and appeal to, the emotional sensibilities of the audience. Harjo especially utilizes emotion in her writing, as exhibited in her desperate tone and details about the sadness of the Native American people. Harjo writes about how sad will it be for the families returning to the grave sites of their recently deceased relatives to find the bodies dug out and taken for research purposes. This is a horrific experience and it makes the reader terribly empathetic and

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