A Visit To An Indian Analysis

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The first thing they see on their visit is a community celebration. There are pounding drums and a cross is raised featuring a man and an eagle. A young man walks into a pile of writhing snakes and he is whipped until he collapses bleeding. They meet John, a handsome blond man dressed in the Indian style. He speaks perfect english and explains that he wanted the honor of being the sacrifice but the elders would not let him. They saw him as an outsider. He tells them that his mother Linda came from the “other place” but on a visit to the reservation suffered an injury and was rescued by the Indians. He says his father was named Tomakin, but Bernard knows him as Thomas, the Director, but keeps this a secret. John introduces them to his mother who disgusts Lenina. Linda tells explains that something went wrong with her contraceptives which is why she had John. She was too ashamed to go back with a child so she stayed and had sex with many of the men in the …show more content…
She only wants John, other men can not entertain her. Lenina decides to go to John and seduce him. He falls to his knees and talks of true love and marriage. She asks him why he didn’t just have her if he wanted her all along. She presses her body to him and removes her clothes. This alarms John and he slaps her and calls her a whore. She is terrified and confused and locks herself in the bathroom. She stays until John gets a phone call and leaves the apartment. John rushes to the hospital to see his mother. She cannot recognize him and he shakes her demanding that she know him as her son. A group of children come and the nurse fears that his grief is interfering with their death conditioning. When Linda begins to choke he calls for a nurse but when she arrives John’s mother is already dead. He tearfully rushes from the room pushing down a particularly insensitive

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