Black Robe Movie Analysis

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Black Robe movie is about the priest that goes to a colony with the idea to convert the Indians sending them to the right path into Catholicism. Little does he know that Indians are not the only ones that are going to change in the way to village Huron, were he will continue the work of the father before him. Far away from the familiar sixteen century French, father Laforque is confronted with many hardships alongside Daniel, a young adventurer who joins in the journey. The main conflict is that both groups of people refuse to acknowledge each other. The French man thinking of the Indians as savage’s because of their way of life and their religion. While the Indians seeing the French man as odd people that are possibly connected to the devil,

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