Geronimo By Melissa Schwarz Chelsea House Publications (1992), 127 pages. Geronimo was a native American warrior who was raised to fight anyone who wronged his tribe, his fighting ability would be a key point in earning native Americans better treatment on their reservations. The book tells of Geronimo's countless treks across the border of Mexico and America, fighting Americans and Mexicans alike. He first fought for revenge, they innocently murdered his tribe members and his wife, he was pushed by rage to punish everyone who had wronged him before. The book was very detailed about all of his journeys in Mexico and America. It told about his many wives dying and the hatred that filled his heart after each one was murdered, he would go on killing sprees each time his wife died. He did not like the way his people were treated and stood up for it, whether that be by fighting or by negotiating with generals, he gave every inch of himself to make sure his people were treated busily. …show more content…
Geronimo would only rebel against law enforcement if his people had not been treated justly. For example in 1878, his people were not being treated with respect. The general had sold all of their food or used it for his own livestock, he increased the amount of troops at the reservation by 10 fold, and his men would often taunt the Indians with gestures of death (Hand with thumb out run across the throat). Geronimo had achieved what he wanted before he died in 1909, his people were allowed to choose where they lived and could raise cattle and provide a means for themselves, this was all because Geronimo had a good standing with the general of the time, General Crook. Even when his people got better treatment, he still fought for some Native American traditions that they weren't allowed to do on the reservations such as, beating their women and
“Geronimo: an American legend” is a story of an apache warrior who fought against the United States in order to preserve his peoples culture. The film starts off, ironically, with the first surrender of Geronimo. His people are sent to a reservation called turkey creek. On this reservation they were expected to become farmers that would produce mostly corn. However the apache where not harvesting enough to sustain their community and had to rely on government checks.
The Forgotten 500 told the miraculous story of the rescue of 500 almost all American airmen in Yugoslavia during World War II. These men bailed out of airplanes and landed behind enemy lines and defied all expectations by staying alive. To do this they had to hide from enemies for weeks or even months. That is what made this book very interesting because the Germans were always close by and if found, the men would all be killed. What kept these men safely in hiding was Yugoslavian Serb General Draza Mihailovic and his followers.
Next of Kin tells the story of a man’s life and how it was forever changed once he was asked to become an assistant for a research project with chimpanzees. The story spans over several decades of work. It is very emotional and telling. The book allows the reader to have an intimate understanding of how the research was conducted, as well as how the world had viewed and treated chimpanzees at the time which Fouts was involved in the Washoe project.
I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a historical book written by Livia Bitton Jackson. It‘s about Elli Friedmann a little girl of thirteen year old. She and her family were Jews. They were taken away from their house and put into a crowed ghetto in Hungary with another Jews when the Nazis invade Hungary in March 1944. Eli can no longer attend school. She became one of many innocent Holocaust victims. Elli has returned 50 years later for a ceremony to the spot where she was once liberated by the American army. Living during the Holocaust she has chosen to write down her story. The book covers 40 chapters that explain her story as a survivor. I will talk about some of marked events
(134,219). The author and main character Rodriguez are one in the same person. At a young age Luis Rodriguez started writing about his life story which becomes a big feat for him because of not getting education in school, gang related problems, and being a leader in school for his fellow classmates. He clearly goes against a stereotype he faces which is Hispanics are illiterate by, writing a book despite getting without help in his circumstances and writing becoming very popular throughout the years. As a result of his hard work he put into his stories and poems, thanks to one of his teachers Mrs. Baez, the stories and poems were edited and sent to many literary contests.
The drive to expand westward, fueled by Manifest Destiny, lead to the colonization and connections that make up the America of today, influenced by the Doctrine of Discovery, industrialization, and the outcome of court cases like Johnson v. M’Intosh. Without this, the unification and might of the United States would be significantly smaller and less influential on the world. As for the novel itself, the book was actually really enjoyable and easy to read. The authors opinion came through with sufficient evidence to back up his claim.
The first chapter in the book At The Dark End of the Street is titled “They’d Kill Me If I Told.” Rosa Park’s dad James McCauley was a expert stonemason and barrel-chested builder. Louisa McCauley was Rosa Park’s grandmother, she was homestead and her husband and oldest son built homes throughout Alabama’s Black Belt. In 1912 James McCauley went to go hear his brother-in-law preach. While there, he noticed a beautiful light named Leona Edwards. She was the daughter of Rose Percival and Sylvester Edwards. Sylvester was a mistreated slave who learned to hate white people. Leona and James McCauley got married a couple months after meeting and Rosa was conceived about nine months after the wedding. In 1915, James decided to move North with all
As Geronimo approached his late teens, he was already leading military operations. At 17, he had been at the helm of four successful raids against the Mexican army. During this time, he fell in love with a woman named Alope. The couple had three children together and loved each other faithfully until disaster struck. While away, Mexican troops attacked his tribe’s camp and killed his wife and children. Following Apache tradition, he burned all of his family’s things and went to the woods to grieve. Out of anger, he gathered up a group of approximately 200 Apache men to avenge the deaths of his loved ones. It took ten years but he finally got his revenge. He tracked down and killed every single Mexican tro...
He would never be the same again. The loss of his family led Geronimo to a lifelong hatred of all Mexicans. He was filled with hatred, and he would spend a lifetime pursuing vengeance for all that he and his people had lost. He became one of the most feared Apache warriors of all time. The career and accomplishments of Apache warrior Geronimo were indicative of the fight for a Native American way of life in conflict with that of the progressing American frontiersmen and Mexican soldiers.
The corrido has been identified as having distinctive characteristics that make up its theme and plot. First, the corrido has a “context of hostile relations between Anglos and Mexicans along the border and the establishment of a scenic structure, geographical locale, and opposing social forces” (Mendoza 146). The corrido’s hero “is a hard-working, peace-loving Mexican, who, when goaded by Anglos, outrages into violence, causing him to defend his rights and those of others of his community against the rinches, the Rangers” (Saldívar). This hero “is quickly introduced in legendary proportions and defiant stature” and many people must die before the hero reaches his triumphant, but tragic, demise (Mendoza 146). The Anglos in the corrido, meanwhile, are not one-dimensional villains but “complex figures who contain positive as well as negative qualities” (Mendoza 146). These distinctive traits of a corrido – setting, conflict, and characterization, among others – ...
A nation formed from the blood of an entire culture. The Revisionist Western Film, Geronimo: An American Legend, (1993) directed by Walter Hill, sheds light on the events that transpired as the Whites migrated and expanded towards the West. The theme of this movie revolves around the oppression and injustices committed on the “inferior” Apache race by the “superior” Whites, and the conflicts that ensued from it. In the face of oppression and injustice, one will go to great lengths to protect and preserve one’s liberty, and likewise, it can also alter the conviction of an outsider.
Ooka Shohei named the last chapter of Fires on the Plain “In Praise of Transfiguration.” Through the whole novel, readers witness the protagonist Tamura transform from an innocent soldier to a killer. Readers watch him go from condemning the practice of eating human flesh to eating human flesh for his own survival. At the end, Readers see Tamura’s redemption as he shot Nagamatsu who killed and ate his own comrade Yasuda. What was the difference between two men who both killed and ate human beings? To Tamura, the guilt of eating human flesh distinguished himself from Nagamatsu who cold-bloodily killed Yasuda. As Tamura recalled, “I do not remember whether I shot him at that moment. But I do know that I did not eat his flesh; this I should certainly have remembered.” (224) The fact of him shooting at Nagamatsu had no importance to Tamura. However, his emphasis on not eating
... Benavidez represents todays young who are responsible of bring the native american culture alive with the help of a leader like Talache and the rest of his young community. This for their older generation because of their sircuntances of their time.
I highly enjoyed this book mainly because I had never read one like it before. It didn't have too much of a significance on me, but I learned about Ambrose Bierce and Pancho Villa because of it. I never really remember history or try to, but reading this novel has made me learn about the Mexican revolution and Bierce. I really was fascinated with this story because it really felt as if the old gringo were Ambrose Bierce. I keep on wanting to think that this is what truly happened to the American journalist. 'Was the old gringo really Ambrose Bierce?'; you're asking. That's a question one will have to find out for themselves by reading the novel, The Old Gringo.
These three men play important roles in the resistance of settlers and army forces. They were all intelligent and lived for their people. They wanted a good life for the people who were left to live on the reservations.