“Fear Hurts” The character that I have chosen to write about is Augustus Sullivan, or Gus, the guide for General Moustache who directs the American soldiers into battle after they hear that the Native Americans had slain 25 white people. Gus, who is a well-respected white man of the United States Army, is someone who Zits tries to immediately control away from Gus’ intentions, but he is unsuccessful (Alexie, p. 85). Instead, he guides the white people, the same people he had grown to hate, into a Native American camp to slaughter his ancestors. He watches as Indian men, women, and children are obliterated by the men he took to their camp, as people are murdered at ferociously close distance. When all hope for any Indian survivors is lost, a “white soldier races towards Bow Boy” and “without stopping, the white soldier reaches down and picks up Bow Boy.
The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead. Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band of hardcases to run his operation. And now he’s sent them out to take care of the one man who stands in his way: Hopalong Cassidy. But Bolt’s about to learn that if you shoot down a man like Cassidy, you better make sure he never gets up. When Hopalong Cassidy creator Clarence E. Mulford retired, he chose the young Louis L’Amour to carry on the Hopalong tradition in four unforgettable novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Rustlers of West Fork and The
The Plains Indians had different views on warfare to the White settlers. For them, it was all about being brave, stealing horses and weapons, showing spiritual power and counting coup. For the White settlers, it was about land, money, glory and killing. The Indian wars, however, were not filled with bloodshed. It was considered braver to touch an enemy with one’s coup stick then to kill a man, as one could easily kill a man by shooting them with an arrow (or rifle) from far away without any danger to themselves.
"The Cyclops bellowed and the rock roared round him, and we fell back in fear. Clawing his face he tugged the bloody spike out of his eye, threw it away, and his wild hands went groping; then he set up a howl for Cyclopes who lived in caves on windy peaks nearby." (Homer, 927) Next, when I came back to Ithaca to try to get my wife back, all the suitors were protecting her in our castle. While I was on my 20 year journey, Penelope was very desolation. I wanted to return to my wife, Penelope, in Ithaca after the ten year Trojan War.
In the first stanza of her poem she compares the white takeover to the mosquitoes at the drive in movie where “nothing works” to keep them away and “they break through the smoke screen for blood” (Erdrich 12). This gives a comparison to how the Europeans easily broke through the Native Americans' defenses, leaving them no chance at fighting off the white men. It introduces the idea that the white men engulfed not only the Native Americans' freedom, but also everything else they had, including their culture and lifestyle. In the sixth stanza Erdrich mentions “a few laughing Indians fall over the hood / slipping in the hot spilled butter” (Erdrich 12). The Indians are laughing at watching their own people being brutally killed in a white man's movie, greatly disgracing their ancestors and giving an example of how Erdrich feels these people care very little about their past.
There were many families and other people killed because people don’t like each other and wanted to take over each other. In the Bosnian genocide there was a guy just like Paul trying to save everyone from the evil and to make sure everyone was saved. When people tend to ignore others and don’t respect each other things start to turn ugly and go for the worse. Things like this are still going on all around the world. The only people that helped the Bosnians out was the UN, it was just like how the UN was helping the Tutsis.
Rebecca’s Pa captures the Native American, Amik, and wants to take him to trial so he can be hanged. Pa accused him of murdering a white trapper named Gibbs. Amik lives up in the Rebecca’s loft, where she soon finds him living. After many days of seeing and feeding Amik, Rebecca and he exchange gifts, growing as closer friends. Near trial time, Rebecca begins to really like the Native American, even though her Pa would not approve.
Mary Crow Dog also writes about the intentional killing of her people this in her book, Lakota Woman. She says, “The whites destroyed the tiyospaye, not accidentally, but as a matter of policy. The close-knit clan, set in its old ways, was a stumbling block in the path of the missionary and government agent, its traditions and customs a barrier to what the white man called “progress” and “civilization”” (Crow Dog p.13). Unfortunately for the white man, they failed to succeed at killing off all of the Native people. When a couple hundred thousand were resilient enough to survive this American Holocaust then the whites were faced with a new dilemma, and that was what to do with the
Buffalo Soldiers (1997) Movie Review The story begins with the sad image of white Texas Rangers stringing up innocent Apache children in hopes of gathering information about Indian chief Victorio. This scene reminded me of the KKK lynching blacks. Luckily, the Buffalo Soldiers arrive in time to save the day and apprehend the rangers. The movie starts in the New Mexico Territory, ex-slave First Sergeant Wyatt (Danny Glover) and the Buffalo soldiers arrest Captain Draper and other Texas Rangers for the murder of the Indian children and trespassing on federal protected land, Captain Draper sets the tone with a nigger comment to First Sergeant Wyatt right before they take the Rangers into custody. Captain Draper would not have disrespected at white soldier but this movie takes place shortly after the end of the Civil War, when former slaves were given their freedom.
Jack was the first of the boys to show signs of aggression, then it turned on his hunters, and then it took control of Ralph. Jacks show of violence made even those who opposed it, Ralph and The Hunters result in hostile conduct. Violence is like a weed; it spreads and chokes out everything around it. Violence can be the demise of all