The Slightest Touch

at roughly nine-years-old, June was half-starved and had nothing but, “a piece of rag on her I wouldn’t have used to wipe a pig [and] black beads on a sliver chain” (85). Although a brave and strong individual there were wounds deep inside June, and while she searched for ways to fix it, it was one she lived with her entire life, until it finally wore her down. During a confrontation between them after June’s near hanging soon after she had moved in, Marie saw this pain as she “looked in her sorrowful black eyes” (90) noticing misery she “couldn’t touch there. It was a hurt place, it was deep, it was with her all the time like a broke [sic] rib that stabbed when she breathed” (90). Over time, her anguish consumed June, chipping away at her inner strength until she felt as fragile as an egg shell, “…she felt so fragile…her skin felt hard and brittle, and she knew it was possible, in this condition to fall apart at the slightest touch” (4). Growing up in an era of institutionalization of Indian children, Marie Kashpaw didn’t have an easy life. Her story unfolds beginning with “Saint Marie” which demonstrates her assimilation attempt and mission to find love and acceptance, as she seeks to embrace her light skin and limited Indian blood. Entering the Sacred Heart Convent, she wishes to “pray as good as they could” and become “a saint they’d have to kneel to” (43). Unfortunately, Sister Leopolda, the women that taught and took in Marie, could only see the perceived Indian…

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Daniel sat up from his pillow every morning at the respective time and sat down at the head of his thin mattress, practicing the exact same methodology every day for 19 years of his life. How would you feel to miss out on a quarter of your existence? I pace around my own room and could never imagine being accustomed to staying in the same space for 19 years without being able to interact with another human being face to face. Without the warm touch of another person’s hand in mine, or without…

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before stabbing her in the eye and beating her with a baseball bat and crowbar, striking her at least 25 times in the face, neck, and head. When his father came a short time later, Vincent hit him with a crowbar and stabbed him multiple times. In this generation, there may be situations as brutal and extreme as in the happenings stated above, or there may be situations or there may be situations with simply inconsiderate and disgraceful brats. On www.infowars.com, there is an article about…

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