Saul

Beside his original family of the Fish Clan, Saul later found his second Indigenous family, the Kelly’s, in Manitouwadge. It was Saul’s natural gift in hockey that led him out of St. Jerome’s, a school that “was hell on earth” (78). However, at first, Saul suggested that being at the Kelly’s might be not as nice as it appeared because according to Virgil, he had to work hard to prove himself: “First is you’re not from here and you’re taking a spot away from someone else. Second is you’re a…

childhood abuse are left with remnants of the incident for years to come. In Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse, Saul Indian Horse attends St. Jerome’s and the abuse in the residential school system transforms him completely. Saul’s experiences with childhood abuse leads to drastic changes in his personality and eventually, he isolates himself as he loses the ability to make human connections. Saul isn’t always as solitary as he is during his middle age, it all starts with St. Jerome’s. Saul’s…

Over the course of this semester, I was reminded of different characters from the Bible that I remember learning about from religion class growing up. I was reintroduced to Samuel, Saul, David, Jonathan, and Absalom. Learning about these characters now was different then learning about them when I was younger because I have developed more as a person and now see things differently than before. I was able to make new connections for these biblical characters as well as learn new things from…

is difficult to understand the struggles or feelings that outsiders go through. Christina Perri is known for her emotional songs about love, fear, being human and so on, but Sad Song particularly explains how it feels to be an outsider. Sad Song and Saul from Indian Horse both deal with alienation and they both show how words and actions can make someone feel weak and hopeless. Also, being far away from your loved ones can cause you to feel alone and finally it shows that eventually they start…

life battling with racism and cruel jokes. Saul Indian Horse is a native boy whose life got turned upside down when he was taken to the residential school St. Jerome. Throughout the novel, Saul engages in the amazing game of hockey, but not without critics. A crucial turning point in Saul’s life is when he gets liberated from St. Jerome and beings playing hockey with the Moose in Manitouwadge which means “Cave of the Great Spirit”. At --- years old, Saul was asked b Father Leboutiler if he…

again a favorable evaluation was provided; Saul seemed to have made an army by hand selecting “valiant men.” There does not seem to be a setting, rather an occasion that gave rise to a problem. Therefore, verse 1 of chapter 15 was labeled setting since a subject followed a wayyomer, thereby providing background information. Samuel proposed that Saul “utterly” destroy Amalek. Having summoned all the people together, Saul set…

impacted me as he escaped from Saul. I am also going to present a situation involving Abigail and Nabal including what I gained from that incident. In the wilderness of Engedi, Saul was in a cave relieving himself so he wasn't able to defend himself. Some of David's men advised him to destroy Saul but instead David slit a corner off Saul's robe. That response convicted David. He didn't murder Saul instead he acknowledged him as the anointed one. David confessed to Saul how close he'd come to…

life of a native boy named Saul and his experiences as a professional native hockey player. At a young age native children like Saul were plucked from their families and moved into Christian residential homes. These so called schools were used to strip away their native culture that consequently ends stripping away the self-identity of the native children who…

In the Novel, Indian Horse, Saul is forced to overcome the adversity in which once shattered his spirit on his early life. He overcomes his angst and thoughts by retracing his steps to locations of his early life. With this, he demonstrated his self-healing and the positiveness from what the land offered him, as the land seems to play an important role in saul's life. The land has a positive influence in Saul's life because It helps him connect his abilities as a seer, it gives him solace and it…

fall of Saul as a King, who was leading Saul God or Satan? It seemed that Saul’s plan to defeat Philistia’s army had failed badly. Saul had tried to gather a vast army of men from Israel at Gilgal. In fact, his men had scattered. They were very afraid. However, Saul still remained at Gilgal with about 600 men (Samuel 13:15). Saul waited there because Samuel had promised to join him there after 7 days (Samuel 10:8). Saul expected Samuel to pray for him and to give him a message from God. Saul was…