Analysis Of Ten Little Indians A Spoken Indian

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What do you do when you are supposed to be entering the best experience of your life and broken limbs start to clutter your path? The easiest and most prominent answer I have found is “make yourself busy”! But doesn’t this further complicate things? It is hard to enjoy life when something is missing and the question, why? continues to loom. The obstacles faced in life present moments of growth through hope, love, disability, and heartache, and test our ability to overcome, grow and evolve as humans. In this chapter of the Ten Little Indians a Spoken Indian is in search of wholeness He goes from scholar to slacker, father to statistic, blue collar worker to homeless squatter, and to hope in the form of a regalia, all in search of inner peace. This Spokane Indian has been trying to maneuver through this world in an unorthodox manner. He has found both success and failure in life. This once college attendee, contributor to the workforce, husband, and father is now a shell of a man looking for wholeness, gratification and hope in the form of a close ancestral artifact, a regalia. This is the last physical connection he has to his grandmother. Unfortunately, he finds this artifact in a pawn shop and not in a family treasury. So instead of being passed down he has to purchase this regalia’ This possess a problem because he is …show more content…

It is the challenges we face that make it look dark and gloomy. The key to a productive existence is not the emotions we feel when presented with adversity, but in our ability to overcome, grow and evolve. In comparison, examine the Spoken Indian searching for hope in hardships, or the extraordinary taste and smell of the wine connoisseur who lacks sight. See the trial & errors or the young man growing to love both parents, and the college student whose heart is blistering with pain from the loss of his mother, but finds healing in his new home as an emerging scholar. We are all exploring methods to handle

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