Summary Of An Indian Father's Plea

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The kindergarten teacher of a boy named Wind-Wolf, accused the boy of being a slow learner. This angered the boy’s father. Wind-Wolf’s teacher labeled him as a slow learner because he was not accustomed to Western society ways. The father in “An Indian Father’s Plea ” by Robert Lake, effectively utilizes the structure of an argument for his son’s education in his letter to his son’s teacher.

“I would like to introduce you to my son, Wind-Wolf.”(pp.75) This hook that Wind-Wolf’s father uses caught the teacher’s attention instantly because this hook is making a mockery of the teacher. This is a mockery to the teacher because it is telling the teacher that she/he doesn’t know his son at all. So the father reintroduces his son to the

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