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A Comparison Of Power In The Wednesday Circle And Sky Burial

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Powerless and Power in The Wednesday Circle and Sky Burial

The stories chosen are “The Wednesday Circle” by Sandra Birdsell and “Sky Burial” by Richard Van Camp. There are similarities between the character's feelings in both “The Wednesday Circle” and “Sky Burial;” the characters shift between feeling helpless and feeling empowered. The character explores the feeling of powerless and feeling empowered throughout their stories.

Icabus shifts between feeling powerless to feeling empowered in his story “Sky Burial." First, Icabus feels regret for what he and Morris had done to the Crees' sweat as Icabus wanted to teach the Crees a lesson about not fee for the lodges, yet the Crees had a similar idea to which the Crees casts a curse over Icabus. Furthermore, Icabus regretted being cursed by the Crees, as he stated that “any other man” would have slept through the night before the curse see the place. He had a strong feeling that something was wrong, yet he feels powerless as to how his decisions had affected him later on in his story. Second, …show more content…

The narrator has said, “excruciating pain shot up Icabus' leg “The pain that he was going through has caused him to feel powerless, as he doesn’t feel that he had enough time to pass on his medicine to another Indian because of the Crees had cursed does that, he also feels the guilt for not being there for his son before his son committed suicide. Thus, this is making him feel weak as he cannot change the past errors that he had done. Also, the narrator informs us that Icabus grieves with sadness “because his son had died alone and ashamed." He had wished to be there for his son before his son's final moments to show a better side of being an Indian in modern times, yet continues to feel guilty about his choice of not being there in those last moments of his son's life. Fourth, he acaboutwould have gone, and this is

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