Teamwork In A Little House Analysis

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On page 40, Laura is singing at the table while the family is eating, her mother than reacts to this by telling her eat her breakfast and mind her manners, for singing at the dinner table was not lady-like at the time period. This isn’t the first time that Laura’s mother tries to teach elegance and how a woman should act, whenever Laura asks too many questions, her parents try to curb this behavior. Another example of when the children are educated by adults is on page 146 when Laura tells Pa about how she was considering letting Jack loose on the Indians. Pa educates the girls that they must always do as he and Ma say, and that if they do, they won’t get hurt.
Two situations where manners are taught include on page 40 when Ma tries to teach …show more content…

After Ma badly sprains her ankle, Pa cannot effectively continue the assembling of the house, and must wait till she heals. Fortunately however, Pa meets a neighbor from 2 miles away who with his help, the two are able to swiftly assemble the walls of the house. Another example of teamwork in little house on the prairie is on page 102 when Pa is assembling the door for their new house. This is a good example of teamwork because Laura helps pa by holding the door still to keep it from swinging out while Pa nails it. During this time period and especially in the setting that the Ingalls’s were living, life was tough and the more help they got, the easier their life would …show more content…

During this time period, propaganda was flooding the minds of settlers about the savages known as Indians. This created an idea similar slavery, anyone who is a different color or has different customs is not human, and they are their own subgroup. This is one of the fundamental aspects of racism during this time and was present in the minds of many. Laura experiences racism that she doesn’t recognize due to her upbringing, she doesn’t realize that Carrie and the Indian baby are no different, she however recognizes the Indian baby more as an animal and when she says she wants one, it almost sounds like she wants to keep it as a