“Abe Buys a Barrel” by Mary Nygaard Peterson tells the story of young Abraham Lincoln who owns a general store located in New Salem Illinois, 1833. Throughout the story, Lincoln has many interactions with customers, which ultimately have a big impact on him. The interactions between Abe and his customers reveal that he is friendly, impulsive, and generous. He is friendly when telling his customers that he enjoys their company, Impulsive when he decides to buy a barrel, and generous and he always customers to make themselves feel at home.
Throughout history, there have been many literary studies that focused on the culture and traditions of Native Americans. Native writers have worked painstakingly on tribal histories, and their works have made us realize that we have not learned the full story of the Native American tribes. Deborah Miranda has written a collective tribal memoir, “Bad Indians”, drawing on ancestral memory that revealed aspects of an indigenous worldview and contributed to update our understanding of the mission system, settler colonialism and histories of American Indians about how they underwent cruel violence and exploitation. Her memoir successfully addressed past grievances of colonialism and also recognized and honored indigenous knowledge and identity.
In the novel “Fools Crow,” James Welch, the author, expounded on the connections between animals and the Pikunis, a tribe of the Blackfoot people. The Pikunis considered the animals as their helpers and believed in partnering up with the animals (one animal per a Pikuni) to garner up their powers and yield to their calling of help in time of these animals’ needs. The Pikunis believed the animals to be their “Animal helpers” since, they had helped this indigenous group of people during wars and crisis by equipping the Pikunis with their powers. Through the use of magic realism, Welch showed the relationship between White Man’s Dog, the protagonist who was later known as Fools Crow, and his animal helper, the wolverine and the benefits of this
“Buck can start at 1,000 pounds.” Said John Thornton, the owner of Buck the sleddog. It was a cold cold afternoon 60 below zero 1898, March 10, A bar named El Dorado Saloon. Everyone in the bar was talking about how much there dog could pull. It started with 300 than 500 then 600 and John said 1000.
Did you know if you treat your animals right they will treat you right?: In Chapter 6 of “ The Call of the Wild” by Jack Londnon the main character Buck develops a very powerful relationship with a person named John Thornton, and as they start to develop love and loyalty for each other they help each other in situations. London conveys the theme that the amount of devotion and care you show to your animals will be returned to you through Bucks love and loyalty to John Thornton. This is show when John Thornton becomes Buck’s new owner he shows love and attention to Buck, which Buck starts to develop love and care for John Thornton as they start to gain a relationship, and as the relationship between John Thornton and Buck keeps getting greater
The person Manuel sells buck, to is quoted as "The man in the red sweater" and this man, is not a good man. Buck now also words for Perrault. There's other dogs there, other
In The Saloon on the Prairie: The Family and the Saloon in Braidwood, Illinois, 1865-1883 Steven Barleen challenges the common historical interpretation that working class saloon culture was primarily a place for single men, who worked in hard, industrial jobs, to drown their pain in alcohol. Barleen also challenges the commonly held contemporary middle class view that Braidwood saloons bred a culture of violence. What he found instead was that far from being a male-dominated world prone to mayhem, Braidwood saloons were gathering and recreational places for men, women, and even children. In times of trouble and hardship or events they could celebrate, the Braidwood community sought each other out in their local pubs.
Greed is one of the most destructive forces known to mankind and it can ruin our lives. We can all learn from stories when people were greedy and had to deal with the potentially deadly consequences. This theory is displayed in the short story “The Pardoner’s” Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer when greed literally caused the main characters to die. The Pardoner’s Tale was the better story in my opinion because the story’s plot had a nice flow to it and kept the story moving, the theme hit me harder because that’s what the focus of the story was, and the author gave some interesting ways of making inanimate objects come to life and have an effect on the plot.
In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck there are several characters such as Candy, Crooks, and Curley’s wife that reveal just how lonely it is to be on the ranch, secluded from the rest of society. Being physically handicapped and older than the other ranchmen makes it tough for Candy to form a deep meaningful connection with the other ranchmen. Everyone enters and leaves, but the only friend that stuck by Candy’s side is his dog that “[he] had ‘im…since he was a pup”. Following Candy dog’s death, Candy’s heart breaks knowing that his one true friend is out of his life. The ability to endure a great deal of abuse and isolation for a period is Crooks’ specialty.
This is expressed when Rip goes out to the woods with his dog to escape his wife and Rip says to his dog, “poor Wolf…thy mistress leads thee a dog’s life of it; but never mind, my lad, whilst I live thou shalt never want a friend to stand thee!” Rip found it easy to sympathize with his dog because he felt as if he and his dog are one in the same, since they both live with Dame Van Winkle, Rip’s wife. Her constant nagging driving Rip away from his household duties, which include tending the farm and being a good father figure for his son. Wolf is simple a dog that cannot nag Rip for not doing something or be a constant burden on him. Since Rip takes good care for Wolf and spend most of his time with him, compared to the rest of his family members, the dog will naturally adore Rip and follow him anywhere
The Innocent Conviction “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain. One dark night, Tom and Huck went to the graveyard for a cure for warts, which could be attained by swinging a cat over a freshly made grave. While they were waiting for devils to appear, Muff Potter, Injun Joe, and Dr. Robinson showed up to dig the freshly buried corpse.
George and Lennie, two migrant workers and the main characters, have just reached the ranch and are introduced to the ranch hands and owners. One of the big guys named Carlson asks his boss, Slim, a tall lanky man, what happened to Slim’s dog. He said that he had to do something not exactly nice. Slim says, “ She slang her pups last night, nine of ‘em. I drowned four of ‘em right off.
Eudora Welty’s novella, The Robber Bridegroom, embodies a tale as old as time — growing up. As the main character Rosamond under goes her transition into adulthood, she also embarks on what seems to be a right of passage, to find love. At first, Rosamond will be forced into adulthood when the masked bandit — Jamie Lockhart — robs her of her virginity. However, as the story further develops, the unknown identities of the two individuals will jade the truth, which will keep Rosamond from fully maturing into an adult. It is not until Rosamond leaves home and seeks the truth of who her lover is, that her evolution into adulthood will be complete.
Buck in the wild was so called “nice” and let the other dogs take his food, but he soon learned that stealing his food was the best way to survive. London uses descriptions of the environment to describe the moods of the dogs, as though the two were connected. “Over the whiteness and silence brooded a ghostly calm. There was not the faintest whisper of
The beginning of the novel shows us that Buck is a pampered dog who had lived in the Santa Clara Valley under the property of judge miller and was the ruler of the house. He was feared, and respected by the other dogs. He has everything he wanted and will soon have it taken away from him. Manuel, the gardener, will abduct Buck in his house and that will be the beginning of a cruel life for him.
