Black Elk Speaks isn’t alone in that the book Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, includes some of the same techniques. Brown also ensures that the information and people are accurate and reflect the story. Although the similarities between Black Elk Speaks and Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee are plentiful in numerous effective ways of telling a story, Black Elk Speaks uses perspective, language and resources that correspond to the theme and message of the book and reflect it in the more refined way of the two. The perspective of the narrator often affects the quality of which the story is portrayed, and can actually determine whether or not the reader understands what the message is. In Black Elk Speaks, because the narrator is a Native American boy who is at the time going through all the commotion first hand, he gives a different outlook on the situation than say.
Madison Jones’ book Nashville 1864 is about the events of the Civil War in 1864 recalled, over 36 years later, by the mature Steven Moore, who experienced the war firsthand as a twelve-year-old boy, as the son of a Confederate soldier. One day, after the war had started and his father had joined the confederates, he learns that his father’s platoon is in the vicinity of their farm. Steven goes off in search of him, accompanied by his friend, the slave Dink. They get behind enemy borders as the fighting begins and witness terrible scenes, with Dink dying during the events. Steven is brought together with his father again, but the actions have had a great impact on him.
Booth was caught fourteen days later at a farm in Virginia. But was this all of the story, or is there another reason for Lincoln's assassination? James L. Swanson said that when the Confederacy was lost and the war was almost over, Booth was beginning to become depressed. As the Confederate capitol, Richmond, was falling into the hands of the Union; Lincoln traveled there and took a seat where Jefferson Davis, the last Confederate President, used to occupy. At Appomattox, where General Robert E. Lee surrendered, Lincoln gave a speech about how he would give blacks freedom and the right to vote.
Our identity is basically an understanding of our own beliefs, values, attitudes, and feelings; it is easily affected by what goes on in our lives, whether those situations are good or bad. Every obstacle in our lives is a challenge that would teach us how to get back on our feet unscathed or at least still relatively whole. Mary Lawson conveyed how such obstacles could shape a person's identity through the characters of her novel, The Other Side of the Bridge. They were written to be as close as possible to real people hence, they also go through difficulties that change not only their future but the core of their being. Arthur, undoubtedly, is a character that has been heavily affected by different situations in life.
During that time period , Steinbeck wrote several articles and two novels which dealt with war (cited 2). Steinbeck influenced writing because it helped to changed our American society since he started his writing career. Most of his books talk about the 1920’s-1940’s, about immigrants and farmers. John Steinbeck was a versatile writer and described as a social-protest writer (cited 4). He was a great people-watcher and was fascinated with people from all walks of like.
He opens the story with a man perched on a bridge, several feet above a river, with his hands bound and a noose around his neck. The man was Peyton Fahrquhar and he was awaiting his execution for crimes committed against the Union Army (the north.) The Union Army believed that Peyton had conspired to blow up a bridge that they had planned to utilize for supply runs and troop movement. Ironically this is the very bridge from which Peyton is now about to be hanged. As Peyton prepares to die he seems to succumb to the enormous weight on his mind and starts to ‘black out.’ As the plank he is perched on is removed he plunges to what will surely be his certain death.
McPherson said that "…many Civil War soldiers felt a profound and passionate commitment to the ideological purposes for which they fought." Almost near the end of the Civil War, Americans began to look for answers on why did the soldiers fought for. It is hard to separate individual causes of the war because the years preparing the way to the war were described by raising warfare over a set of economic and political disputes between the Northern and Southern states. Because the result of the war made dramatic changes to the southern way of living, it is simple to think that the main cause of the war was disagreement over slavery. Actually, disagreement between the North and South over states' rights and taxes was a more important cause of the Civil War than were differing views about slavery.
Abraham Lincoln was the president during this time period. Many black men fought in this war. The Civil War was definitely the first modern war from the aspects of medicine, military, and mobilization factors. Medicine was one of the major reasons why the Civil War has been thought of as the first modern war. One of the many major medicine enhancements is the use of dog tags.
Roger Tschida 9-12-2012 Professor Honey Response Paper #1 Literature is greatly varied in style, taste, and purpose, but a major component of the detail and often the symbolism in any story is the choice of colors for the characters and scenery. While the other four authors use some color for simple descriptions and detail, Bierce and Gilman each take a single color and focus on it to symbolize their view of the topic about which they wrote. Bierce chooses the color gray to signify the cross between fantasy and reality, and Gliman uses yellow to dig into the mind and investigate the psychological trauma she endured earlier in life. Of all the authors read so far, Willa Cather has by far written the most boring, over-detailed stories.
Not only having control methods to shape a story, you need a protagonist to guide you through it and really make you predict what might happen. In these two stories the protagonists really bring the story together and gives the reader a way to relate to the story, even though the protagonist in each story are complete