Why is resilience so important to someone's identity? Does your family help you in difficult situations? We will see how resilience is important to Ned's identity and how his family supported him during World War II that will be discussed in the book code talker written by Joseph Bruchac. In World War II Ned strengthened his identity because it caused resilience from surviving or progressing in the war, and his family was allowing him to become stronger in the war to know what he was fighting for.
The war was affected by Ned’s resilience by making him better in the war. In this quote on page 24 it says in the detail that Ned had been punished which we can tell from his injuries and a boy in the same situation helping Ned telling him something to keep him strong or sane. “I staggered outside and fell down to my knees. My vision was blurry and my lips were cut and bleeding. Tommy Nez, who was the first friend I made in school, lifted me up to my feet.
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You are not going to school for yourself. You are doing this for your family. To learn the ways of bilagaana, the white people, is a good thing.”(8). That quote is Ned’s Uncle telling him why he is going to the white people school, which means he's fighting for his family. This quote from page 211 is what Ned’s family did for Ned when he was battling in the war, “I had my family and our traditional ceremonies. I had the holy people to help me.”(211). That quote tells us that Ned’s family did traditional ceremonies for him and that was a way that helped Ned. How did Ned’s family help him during a difficult time? Ned's experience in the war was affected by his family by making him go to the white people school to learn their ways and battle in the war for his family, and his family was helping him along the way, they had their traditional ceremonies for