Little Big Man Review For my spring break reading, I read the book Little Big Man. Little Big Man was written by Thomas Berger. Little Big Man is a narrative in the perspective of the main character Jack Crabb, and the story contains elements of Western style satire. Jack Crabb is referred to in the story as a 111-year-old man. This story accounts his life starting from 1852 when extremely drunk Indians murdered the majority of his family, and goes until 1876 when he becomes the only white survivor of the Battle of The Little Bighorn. Jack is first adopted by Old Lodge Skins, whom is the chief of a small Northern Cheyenne tribe, and later by a bad reverend that is referred to in the story as Mr. …show more content…
At this point Jack’s family gets killed by several drunken Indians, which kind of made me feel sorry that Jack lost so much of his family at such a young age. Although this was a sad start to the book, it was exciting and I believe that Berger made a great choice jumping right to the action at the beginning. A lot of writers would have either placed a scene at the beginning that doesn't generally belong there, and that would quickly kill the reader’s interest. Some writers would even spend too long introducing the characters at the beginning, even though character introductions are usually supposed to be brief, yet interesting enough to get the readers excited for what is to come during the story. If I had lost most of my family early on, I would be very sad myself. I would miss out on all the amazing adventures and experience that I get to take part in when I get older. If I had barely any family left, there would be no one to support me at school events, and no one to take care of when I am sick. There are many other reasons why I would miss my family, if I suffered the same fate as Jack Crabb, however I have listed a