Kiowa

Memory is what keeps the past alive, holding on to every detail or experience in someone’s lifetime. Memories are created and preserved, and often shared with others through storytelling. In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, the main character Offred preserves memories of her life and family prior to society’s transformation into a theocratic dystopia called Gilead. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is given the ability to hold the memories of the past prior to the development of the…

Historically, war have been a vital between counties for control over each other. For century war have been fought mainly over power and control. The battle over power and control have led to the matter of life and death, a path either to safety or to begin ruin, but in all cases it led to death and ruin many individuals home and life’s. Likewise, War has been and still is one ways or reason to influence and the spread of “culture”, “civilization” and mostly importantly “religion” (Michael Lee…

want to do all of the wars will end. Chief Joseph also states “We ask to be recognized as men.”(Joseph). This is meaning the same thing as the quote stated above it. All the Native Americans wanted from the white men was respect and peace. “For the Kiowas the beginning was a struggle for existence in the bleak northern mountains.”(Momaday). This quote supports because it is telling there was a struggle for them to be there , similarly to what Morgan states in his book. “To the west, beyond the…

“The Things They Carried,” is the title of Tim O’Brien’s story of soldiers during the Vietnam War. The title refers to the physical and emotional things the soldiers had to carry with them every day they were overseas. They are all were required to carry a certain amount of physical equipment with them and they also chose to carry their own unique items along with them. Along with their physical loads they each had their own personal emotions and thoughts that they carried and dealt with every…

The Cheyenne Native American Dull Knife once said, “All we ask for is to live and live in peace” (332). The quote exemplifies the relationship between the Native Americans and the United States government. The Native Americans did not agree with the American settlers coming into their territory and using their beloved natural resources. As more policies were enacted and more settlers came into the unsettled territories inhabited by the Native Americans, the more likely a violent dispute…

The Resurrecting Power of Stories The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is a fictional story that exhibits love, loss, war, coming-of-age, innocence, and so much more. O’Brien explores all of these themes through an even bigger topic: storytelling. He also inversely picks apart the various aspects of storytelling via the smaller themes. One of the products of this analysis that I find to be most intriguing is the resurrecting power of stories. O’Brien asserts that stories have the capability…

toward Kat and tried his hardest to save Kat. The same thing occurs in the Tim O’Brien’s book when the platoon of soldiers finds their dead comrades body, they are emotionally driven even though it was nearly impossible to get him out of the mud. “Kiowa was their friend and they kept at it anyways” until finally they removed him from the mud (O’Brien). The deep emotional…

When discussing the American West, one cannot carry on a conversation without mentioning the Native Americans. They played many roles throughout American history. In the west they played several. American Indians opened up the west by helping explorers, elevated the horse in their culture to an iconic status, changed the ecological balance in many places throughout the west, proved to the U.S. and Mexico that they were a force to be reckoned with. First, the Native Americans played an important…

People believe death is the end of life. And, they are afraid of dying since the death is unavoidable. However, in The Things They Carried, Linda’s death changes the meaning of the death. In the chapter, “The Lives of the Death,” Tim O’Brien tells readers the life can continue after death by recalling his memory with his first love, Linda. Linda died because of her disease, brain tumor, when she was nine years old. However, Linda was not afraid of her inevitable death. She rather thought Tim how…

In “The Man I Killed” Tim, the narrator, who is also the protagonist is under attack by the guilt associated with taking a human life. Tim doesn’t use the first person but instead we are given a sneak peek into guilt and confusion that go hand in hand with taking a life. Now he’s locked in; he creates an entire life for the victim, creating a fictional account on his views of war, early child hood, and his family. The Guilt continues to eat at him though no words come out, the fire of guilt…