When They All Just Went Away Analysis

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If we forget about the beliefs and traditions of those who came before us things could happen again or repeat or be forgotten.

I we ignore what was happening at that time during the story’s could happen again and it was not a fun time back then.At the time in the story many people did have the rights that they deserved like not siting on certain areas on buses like in the story how the girl sat to close to the front and the driver told her to get up,”get up from there!’(414 pg) hey yelled is what bus drivers would do if you sat near the front and where an african american.If we were to forget about that it could happen again.

In the story the native american is confused because of the violence and how loud in the outside world. his

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