Mistreatment of a “tree”
Different cultures have different representations of things. The biggest thing that we see in the indigenous people called Haida living in the Northwest Pacific, is their love for nature and a single golden spruce. The single golden spruce doesn’t just represent nature it also represents a community, a culture, and even a civilization. The tree represents the greed shown by the community, cultures, and civilizations. Different groups throughout the novel show greed in different ways such as the greed of capturing Grant Hadwin, gaining profit, and dominance.
Haida belief “ I am nature and a lesson of the haida culture look after each other, be generous, never take what you need. enjoy, and share the land and waters …show more content…
The golden spruce was a extremely rare 50 m tall spruce over 300 years old that glowed gold because of its needles. The Haidas loss of spiritual culture awakens Grant. Their disconnection to the meaning of their environment it motivates grant to take down the golden spruce.1st- grant is able to show similarities to the early Spanish conquistadors by his acts of destruction. 2nd-The impact of logging in the 50’s drove loggers to madness. 3rd-The impact of grants destruction leads him to defensively flee the chaos and his self-destruction was shown primarily by his lack of communication with others. groups respectfully face different forms of social injustice that leads to the loss of culture in a specific …show more content…
The high demand for wood drove loggers to a certain madness “for generations, loggers have been viewed as a kind of subspecies that require special handling, loggers were walking liabilities, they had vicious cases of cabin fever and were desperately oversexed. Many would already have a bottle in hand as they headed to town.” ( 37 Vaillant, John, The Golden Spruce). The need for wood kept the majority of the loggers near the job sites. This need for men kept companies allowing unequal work standards, If labor laws existed in the 50’s job sites like these would be shut down. Grant Hadwin was a part of the logging community, his time spent on the job site allowed him to become aware of his environment. Although he spent a majority of His time on the job site he turned to drinking and became overly competitive on the jobsite “ Hadwin was known for buying whiskey by the case and going on spectacular binges, Hadwins confidence in the woods was complete; as a result, he felt perfectly comfortable doing things that would seem suicidal to other people” (45-46 Vaillant, John, The Golden Spruce). This allowed him to find the loss of culture in the logging community and his own loss of culture. “ The Forest industry in british columbia, appears to be one example, of economic remote controlled terrorism, on this planet, with professionals leading the way, in “severe symptoms of denial,
Different cultures have different representations of things. The biggest thing that we see in the indigenous people called Haida living in the Northwest Pacific, is their love for nature and a single golden spruce. The single golden spruce doesn’t just represent nature it also represents a community, a culture, and even a civilization. The tree represents the greed shown by the community, cultures, and civilizations. Different groups throughout the novel show greed in different ways such as the greed of capturing Grant Hadwin, gaining profit, and dominance.
Haida belief “ I am nature and a lesson of the haida culture look after each other, be generous, never take what you need. enjoy, and share the land and waters …show more content…
The golden spruce was a extremely rare 50 m tall spruce over 300 years old that glowed gold because of its needles. The Haidas loss of spiritual culture awakens Grant. Their disconnection to the meaning of their environment it motivates grant to take down the golden spruce.1st- grant is able to show similarities to the early Spanish conquistadors by his acts of destruction. 2nd-The impact of logging in the 50’s drove loggers to madness. 3rd-The impact of grants destruction leads him to defensively flee the chaos and his self-destruction was shown primarily by his lack of communication with others. groups respectfully face different forms of social injustice that leads to the loss of culture in a specific …show more content…
The high demand for wood drove loggers to a certain madness “for generations, loggers have been viewed as a kind of subspecies that require special handling, loggers were walking liabilities, they had vicious cases of cabin fever and were desperately oversexed. Many would already have a bottle in hand as they headed to town.” ( 37 Vaillant, John, The Golden Spruce). The need for wood kept the majority of the loggers near the job sites. This need for men kept companies allowing unequal work standards, If labor laws existed in the 50’s job sites like these would be shut down. Grant Hadwin was a part of the logging community, his time spent on the job site allowed him to become aware of his environment. Although he spent a majority of His time on the job site he turned to drinking and became overly competitive on the jobsite “ Hadwin was known for buying whiskey by the case and going on spectacular binges, Hadwins confidence in the woods was complete; as a result, he felt perfectly comfortable doing things that would seem suicidal to other people” (45-46 Vaillant, John, The Golden Spruce). This allowed him to find the loss of culture in the logging community and his own loss of culture. “ The Forest industry in british columbia, appears to be one example, of economic remote controlled terrorism, on this planet, with professionals leading the way, in “severe symptoms of denial,