The Younger Sky That Has Wept Tears Of Compassion Analysis

In the "Younger sky that has wept tears of compassion" by Chief Seattle, Seattle uses comparison to Red Indian and white people. At that time, white people came to the land once was the land of Indians people and now called America. White came and took over the land, where the Indians people have lived their memories. Seattle wrote this story that untold to people in 1854. The purpose of writing this story was to let people know how white people treated red indians and their land. After white people came, they pushes red Indians away from their land and they decided to get away from them further and further away from them whenever white spreading out their territories. Red men knew that they cannot win white because in the story Seattle said that "His people are many. They are like the grass that cover vast prairies. My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm swept plain". Page (309) So in here Seattle uses personification by using grass and trees and represented white and red indians. Whites were so many just like grass. Before white came to the land, red Indians use to living in the land, peacefully. They live by the dreams of their ancestors. But …show more content…
Because ancestors spent their lives to protect and use the land wisely for their own benefit. The land is rich with the blood or their ancestors and red men believed that it is important to them. This story is similar to the Karen people in Burma. They were the first ethnic group who came into that country. They grown food and live their lives peacefully in the land they found, in Burma. But after Burmese people came and started to take over the land. The Karen people move away from them because they don't want war and wanted to live peacefully. So this is Sad story because red Indians and Karen which they are similar to each other got their treasure taken away, which is their