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Who Is Injun Joe As A Barbaric Savage

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Through the media, Injun Joe was portrayed as a barbaric savage. Being a fugitive, having only a sixth or seventh grade education, and not even being able to write or read made it easy to conclude that he was an uncivilized “other” that was not a member of our society. A society that requires civil behavior and literate skills in order to function properly. In this society that we live in today it is common to believe that one who cannot read or write has no literacy at all, but I have mixed feelings about that. On one hand, I agree that Injun Joe not being able to read or write makes him illiterate in our society, however, I still believe that there are other kinds of literacies on a broader spectrum that Joe might possess. From what I read …show more content…

Then it goes on to explain how the media reminded the viewers that these wilderness tricks were not intelligence, but wood smarts and cunning. Although I agree with that statement up to a certain degree, I don’t think that Joe learning and utilizing his wilderness skills is any different than anyone else learning and utilizing wilderness skills. The only difference would be that Joe used his abilities for a malicious purpose: to evade the law. To which the media deemed this as a “deadly game of hide and seek” or a “game of cat and mouse”. Society used these terms and others to dehumanize Joe and alienate him from our society. To portray him as a wild animal in such a way that any normal or civil behavior is discredited. Because of this, that is why I think society antagonizes any literacies that Injun Joe may have. In my opinion, the literacies that Injun Joe has are not far from the ones that our society sees as necessary. I believe he has some literacies, but society does not see them as literacies because of the way Joe is portrayed as a hillbilly folklore in the media. He was able to learn how to survive in the wilderness and he had the mental skills and capability to outsmart law enforcements for six months.

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