“A seat in the Garden” by Thomas King, tells the story of the Aboriginal people in Canada today, the stereotypes placed on the people, this story also uses irony to portray the issues and placement of Aboriginals today. At the beginning of the story King draws our attention to the issues of how the Aboriginal people were treated like Canada doesn’t belong to them and they only get to have certain parts of the country after the white people took over their land. “Yeah, yeah. Hey! This is a private property. You people ever hear of private property?” (KING, 284) In this sentence, it identifies Joe as a non-Indian man yelling at the Indian man to get out of his property, which in actuality doesn’t really belong to him. Joe told the man that
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This shows that the media plays a role in how minority groups are portrayed to the people. Joe and Red were there waiting for the three Indian hoping they would talk to the big Indian for them so that they could know what he means by “If you build it, they will come”. Joe wanted to go and ask them but Red said it's not done like that, When the police officer came he ask Joe if he could recognize the big Indian man face, they should go as their friend and try to get close to them before they can ask them question, but Joe wanted everything to end as soon as possible. Then joe asks the three Indian if they could see the big Indian man in is garden? They ask the three Indian man if they could help them to communicate with the big Indian man and ask him what he want. The three Indian told Joe and Red what the big Indian man want. But joe did no want to follow the plan but after doing this although the plan doesn't solve the problem of Joe. The policeman who told Joe not to do anything came the afternoon and give them some clue on their problem even when they did not list to him. They come in with all of these ideas about the Indians. With every turn of the conversation, the Indian prove them wrong. This also shows that the big Indian is just a generalized character of the Indian and the
This shows that the media plays a role in how minority groups are portrayed to the people. Joe and Red were there waiting for the three Indian hoping they would talk to the big Indian for them so that they could know what he means by “If you build it, they will come”. Joe wanted to go and ask them but Red said it's not done like that, When the police officer came he ask Joe if he could recognize the big Indian man face, they should go as their friend and try to get close to them before they can ask them question, but Joe wanted everything to end as soon as possible. Then joe asks the three Indian if they could see the big Indian man in is garden? They ask the three Indian man if they could help them to communicate with the big Indian man and ask him what he want. The three Indian told Joe and Red what the big Indian man want. But joe did no want to follow the plan but after doing this although the plan doesn't solve the problem of Joe. The policeman who told Joe not to do anything came the afternoon and give them some clue on their problem even when they did not list to him. They come in with all of these ideas about the Indians. With every turn of the conversation, the Indian prove them wrong. This also shows that the big Indian is just a generalized character of the Indian and the