Janice And Grace Tonto Character Analysis

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Tonto’s dominate trait would have to be charismatic, Tonto’s concern is towards his family from otter lake, Tonto goal is to be the best Indian man he can be. Barbs dominate trait is undaunted, Barbs concern is towards Janice/Grace, Barbs goal is to make Janice/Grace realize she’s native and has a native family and doesn’t have a white family and is not white. Rodney’s dominate trait would be intelligent, Rodney’s concern is towards Barb and Janice/Grace, Rodney’s goal is to bring back the family after Paul’s death. Janice/Grace dominate trait is her mental weakness, Janice/Grace concerns is towards Anne, Janice/Grace goal is to find out if the reasons they took her from her mother were concrete.

The cowbird grows up ¾ of it’s life living under a false identity until some point in its life it realizes what it’s true identity is and instead of continue on in life with the ways it has been taught it leaves the raising of their own baby it invades an occupied nest and makes that
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With beau Rodney, a wisecracking however insightful swindler, and his received sibling, Tonto, a man of gnomic witticisms and some carelessness, Janice is a passionate wreckage since she is caught between two societies. Middle, Barb and the two men force her into coming back to Otter Lake where Janice finds, over the span of a liquor drenched exchange with her sister, her actual bond with her blood-family. When she gets the dream catcher left for her by her late mother, Janice looks for pardoning for the evil sentiments she has made and, tired of being irate at the past, she closes the play on a note of confident compromise. End, Janice/Grace in her drunken rage decides to go up to the graveyard to pay her last respects to her mother so that Janice/Grace can finally be at peace with herself and her

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