Gallately 1 Ewan Gallately Ms. R. Sattaur ENG3U1.6 Wed April 12th 2024.
Resilience breeds growth; resilience is innate. It's something we as humans are born, raised, and die for. Resilience is also learned, through choices as well as experiences, through life. For Indigenous peoples worldviews, resilience might as well be the descriptor for such views. Resilience is to withstand, to persist, to survive. To recover and evolve, to be sturdy, and elastic at the same time. Resilience outlines most current day Indigenous cultures and peoples. And is a chronicle of those of the past. Richard Wagamese and Adam Garnet Jones both wrote stories about said cultures and peoples through their characters, and how throughout their lives, they have to resist and persist all the same. The characters face trials and tribulations, yet always, they move …show more content…
They go on the journey because, quote, “I need you to bury me, facing east, sitting up in the warrior way.” (Wagamese 23). The characters go head-to-head with fear, struggle, and emotions throughout the book. Leading to a beautiful story of reconciliation between a father and son. In Adam Garnet Jones’s story, History of the New World, the characters are trapped on a dying earth. The only way to survive, escape to a near identical world. Until the main character learns of the people who already live on the planet. They feel for the “mermaids” as they’re called, of the new world, and don’t want to go and colonize them, as their ancestors did. Although their partner wants to go. They deal with disagreement and opposing views, but stand their ground, sticking to their own decisions for themselves and their daughter. This leads to a heartbreakingly warm story that incorporates how indigenous people have been treated in the past, and how the world should have learned by now. “”Whattya think yer doing?” His father croaked. “Can’t run.” The kid said. “Gotta face him.”” (Wagamese
Resilience breeds growth; resilience is innate. It's something we as humans are born, raised, and die for. Resilience is also learned, through choices as well as experiences, through life. For Indigenous peoples worldviews, resilience might as well be the descriptor for such views. Resilience is to withstand, to persist, to survive. To recover and evolve, to be sturdy, and elastic at the same time. Resilience outlines most current day Indigenous cultures and peoples. And is a chronicle of those of the past. Richard Wagamese and Adam Garnet Jones both wrote stories about said cultures and peoples through their characters, and how throughout their lives, they have to resist and persist all the same. The characters face trials and tribulations, yet always, they move …show more content…
They go on the journey because, quote, “I need you to bury me, facing east, sitting up in the warrior way.” (Wagamese 23). The characters go head-to-head with fear, struggle, and emotions throughout the book. Leading to a beautiful story of reconciliation between a father and son. In Adam Garnet Jones’s story, History of the New World, the characters are trapped on a dying earth. The only way to survive, escape to a near identical world. Until the main character learns of the people who already live on the planet. They feel for the “mermaids” as they’re called, of the new world, and don’t want to go and colonize them, as their ancestors did. Although their partner wants to go. They deal with disagreement and opposing views, but stand their ground, sticking to their own decisions for themselves and their daughter. This leads to a heartbreakingly warm story that incorporates how indigenous people have been treated in the past, and how the world should have learned by now. “”Whattya think yer doing?” His father croaked. “Can’t run.” The kid said. “Gotta face him.”” (Wagamese