I decided to approach Plenty-Coups Chief of The Crows in a little bit different perspective. I wanted to look at how he was a child. I am an elementary education major and I always want to know what the child is thinking. I want to think about what might have been going through Plenty Coups mind when he was growing up, Like what was it like when more and more white settlers were coming into Montana or what he might have thought of when he was counting coups. I would also like to go into a historical kind of approach. While reading Plenty-Coups I enjoyed reading about all of the different things he did at certain points in history and how they matched up with current events at the time. I think talking about both the historical aspect …show more content…
He went to the mountains and started to fast. His first vision was of the Little People of the Pryor Mountains. They told him to develop his senses and wits, and that if he used them well, he would become a chief. This was a big moment for Plenty-Coups, and it is just the start of what he will become. It is unbelievable that at such a young age he was having visions and accomplishing many feats. Many of the children then and now were at home with their moms playing with toys or running around outside instead Plenty-Coups was going into the mountains by himself becoming a man. Two years later at age 11 Plenty-Coups went to the Crazy Mountains to have another vision. He spent several days there until he had the vision of many buffalo coming out of a hole dispersing around the plains and eventually disappearing. The vision then moves to him as an old man looking out at the plains watching trees being blown down until there was one left, the home of the chickadee. Tribal elders interpreted his dream and white men taking over their land and way of life. The tree standing alone represented the crow …show more content…
It must have been hard for Plenty-Coups to know what would happen to him and his people. Plenty-Coups wanted to live up to the name he was given and was determined to become a great chief. At an early age he started learning about becoming a warrior and lead many attacks on other tribes, like the Sioux and Cheyenne. Linderman automatically thought that the first thing Plenty-Coups would be taught was how to shoot a bow and arrow, but it was actually how to run. To me when I read this I thought it was strange because I never thought that someone would have to be taught to run. I just thought it was something you knew how to do. First you crawl then walk and then you just start running. Plenty-Coups tells Linderman that he remembers learning this lesson very well because he felt proud that his grandfather had noticed him him playing with friends. His grandfather then ordered him to take his clothes off and to chase after a yellow butterfly. Long story short it was harder than he thought it would be to catch that butterfly, but he eventually did. What Plenty-Coups learned that day was running is not just about getting from one point to another. In the book his grandfather says that if he rubs the wings of the butterfly over his heart he would get their grace and swiftness. My understanding to what he said is that to become a great warrior you need to be able to sneak up on your enemy without them knowing. If
Book Report: The Conundrum by David Owen Efficiency is not always the answer, according to David Owen, in his novel The Conundrum, explains that society is headed in the wrong direction, believing that to be greener we need to make our everyday lives more efficient when in reality we need to change our behavior. As consumers, people want to be sustainable and preserve the Earth while greedily expanding our collection of trinkets. Efficiency can be beneficial, but to make the world a greener one, it is essential for people to change their behavior, not efficiency of the products. The Conundrum describes how in modern times we have come a long way in increasing the efficiencies of cars, air conditioners, trains, airplanes, energy resources, or
“Plenty-Coups Chief of The Crows” takes place during Chief Plenty-Coups life(1848-1932). Linderman starts the book with Plenty-Coups’ first memories and medicine dream. Plenty-Coups dreamt that all the buffalo would be replaced with cattle and that he would
Ethel Waters overcame a very tough childhood to become one of the most well known African American entertainers of her time. Her story, The Eye on the Sparrow, goes into great detail about her life and how she evolved from taking care of addicts to becoming the star of her own show. Ethel was born by her mother being raped at a young age. Her father, John Waters, was a pianist who played no role in Ethel’s life. She was raised in poverty and it was rare for her to live in the same place for over a year. Ethel never fit in with the rest of the crowd; she was a big girl, about five nine when she was a teenager, and was exposed to mature things early in her life. This is what helped shape Ethel to be the strong, independent woman she is.
In Fools Crow', Fools Crow is the central character. He is at a period in his life where he questions himself in a wistful daze about what he is; he wants to find out what his place is in this world and what is meaningful to him. He explores among his dedications to his people and among the potentials of breaking free and living a complete life without being interrogated by any one.
The most meaningful part of the book for me, was the sit-ins, a form of protest in which demonstrators occupy a place, refusing to leave until their demands are met. The reason the sit-ins were so meaningful is that it really brought attention to how Americans were segregating the African Americas. Just as if you do nothing when a bully, whites, is picking on you, blacks, they will continue picking on you until you fight back. The sit-ins were a nonviolent way to show that they no longer will or have to take the abuse.
Shaw-Thornburg, Angela. “On Reading To Kill a Mockingbird: Fifty Years Later.” Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird: New Essays. Meyer, Michael J. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press, 2010. 113-127. Print.
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“The Lorax” starts with a young boy who goes to the far side of town to hear the Lorax's tale. There he finds a grouchy old man, named the Once-ler, who says he will tell the boy the story but only if he is paid. The Once-ler then tells of when the land was clean and wilderness was everywhere. Various animals such as swomee-swans, bar-ba-loots, and humming-fish lived among the colourful tufts of Truffula trees, which went “mile after mile in the fresh morning breeze” (Seuss 2). The Once-ler came to this forest in a
The Lord of the Flies by author William Golding is a tale of a group of boys who have been stranded on a deserted island as a result of a plane crash. The boys are faced with plenty of challenges that they all choose to make different choices for such as turning towards savagery for Jack and towards civility for Ralph, which ultimately brings the entire groups sanity to the edge. Within the novel there are plenty of themes, and most of them relate to the inherent evil that exists in all humans as well as the savage nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows these boys’ transformation from being a civilized group of boys to savage beasts due to their adaption to the freedom that they have in their new society, which connects
In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, the island is key for the plot because of the conflict in the story. For instance, General Zaroff has an island in which he uses to hunt. “‘A new animal? You’re joking.’ ‘Not at all,’ said the general. ‘I never joke about hunting. I needed a new animal. I found one. So I bought this island built this house and here I do my hunting”’ (7). General Zaroff has hunted “‘every kind of game in every land”’ (6). But there is one animal he has not hunted. He intends for the island to be a place where he has an endless hunt. But will this “endless” hunt carry on for as long as the general intended? Another reason is there are huge boulders (or crags) surrounding the island to prevent people from
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At the start of this book Stephen brings up how everyone has a vision or dream for there life. He goes on to show how a lot of people have dreams even when you’re a little kid. People have dreams to be the next big millionaire or next big time Pastor. The problem comes in when these people didn’t act out in there faith in God. Then all the sudden there vision became only a dream. This is what our culture does we dream big, but not many of us are
3. Chapter 1, page 5, #3: “Moving through the soaked, coarse grass I began to examine each one closely, and finally identified the tree I was looking for by means of certain small scars rising along its trunk, and by a limb extending over the river, and another thinner limb growing near it.
Kristiana Kahakauwila's, a local Hawaiian brought up in California, perspective view of Hawaii is not the one we visually outwardly recognize and perceive in a tourist brochure, but paints a vivid picture of a modern, cutting edge Hawai`i. The short story "This Is Paradise", the ironically titled debut story accumulation, by Kahakauwila, tell the story of a group narrative that enacts a bit like a Greek ensemble of voices: the local working class women of Waikiki, who proximately observe and verbally meddle and confront a careless, puerile youthful tourist, named Susan, who is attracted to the more foreboding side of the city's nightlife. In this designation story, Susan is quieted into innocent separated by her paradisiacal circumventions, lulled into poor, unsafe naïve culls. Kahakauwila closes her story on a dismal somber note, where the chorus, do to little too late of what would have been ideal, to the impairment of all. Stereotype, territorial, acceptance, and unity, delineates and depicts the circadian lives of Hawaiian native locals, and the relationships with the neglectful, candid tourists, all while investigating and exploring the pressure tension intrinsically in racial and class division, and the wide hole in recognition between the battle between the traditional Hawaiian societal culture and the cutting edge modern world infringing on its shores.
When someone looks up at a bird they see something soaring through the sky free from the world’s troubles. Through out man’s history they have been trying to find a way to be as free as birds and learn to fly. Unfortunately it has been an unsuccessful feat for man to accomplish. Although man has never really been able to fly on their own, they are able to fly with the help from a little machinery and ingenuity. Macon Dead Jr, or milkman, the nickname he adopted because he nursed from his mother, the protagonist of Song Of Solomon by Toni Morrison, had been trying to fly all of his life. But until he discovers his family’s history and his self-identity he unable to discover the secret that has been plaguing man for many centuries, how to fly. All people want to be free, but it takes a great feat, like flying, for them to be able to. Morrison expresses this idea through the symbolism of flying and Milkman’s yearn to be free and fly, his family history, and the incident with Pilot and the bird. By discovering this Milkman is able to finally learn what it means, and how it feels to fly.