Themes In Keeper N Me

A major underlying issue within many cultures in the world is the struggle to either hold on to traditions and values or to move forward with modernization. In the novel Keeper N’ Me by Richard Wagamese, the cultural traditions of the Anishanabe become very important to Garnet Raven who is a disconnected member of the tribe. The major theme in the Movie, The Last Samurai, directed by Edward Zwich is this very issue: tradition versus modernization. The protagonist of this movie Nathan Algren played by Tom Cruise, become disillusioned with using war to suppress tradition and gains appreciation for the values of the Samurai. While there is a difference between the settings in the novel and the movie there are some strong similarities between the novel and the movie. These include the change that each protagonist undergoes and then resolves. And the values of the Anishanabe and the Samurai.

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The traditional teaching of the Anishanabe is to care, love, and to be balanced. These are the thing that Keeper gives to Garnet, as he explains to him one day, “Them outside things move fast make people move fast too. You Watch… Things like this gota come slow, give people time to find balance with it. It’s an important thing to havin’ balance.”(185) The Samurai also had high respect for tradition, additionally they valued honor. The honor in the samurai went so deep within them that they took pride in everything they did what they did and who they were. They would even die for their tradition; it was imbedded in their spirit. After living with them for a while Nathan Algren recognizes the spiritual existence, ”but there is indeed something spiritual in this place. And though it may it may forever be obscure to me, I cannot but be aware of its power.” They are extremely loyal to each other and to their way of