In The Loon Feather, Iola Fuller discusses the life of an Native American girl and the decline of her people in population and culture. Fuller presents the reader with the main character, Oneta, the daughter of the legendary warrior, Tecumseh. Even though she has only seen him once before his death, Oneta’s personality embodies her father’s wisdom and strength. Throughout the book, she searches for ways to encompass her French upbringing and her Ojibway heritage. The author depicts the misunderstandings and prejudges in the collision of the French and Native American cultures. Fuller starts out by showing things from the Native American point of view, but as Oneta is adopted by her French stepfather after her mother passes and raised in a convent as a proper French woman, the reader is shown how Oneta is torn between her true identity and her upbringing. As tensions rise between the Native Am

Another character, Pauline Breedlove, contributed to Pecola’s strong desire for

The endeavor to find your true identity is an ongoing process. In an accumulated world of ideals, possessions, morals, beliefs, and rebellions, identity is what you strive to become and where and what you choose to be an influence over you. Even though these three authors wrote about different characters in different situations, their theme was the same, that understanding who you are and where you come from, helps you to better understand yourself.

blue eyes, because she, just as Pecola, hated herself and longed to be something she was not. Morrison also used Pauline to show how popular culture encourages self loathing in the black community. To occupy some of her time when she was a young woman, Pauline would frequently go to the movie she began to accept the Hollywood idealized representation of absolute beauty. “I remember one time I went to see Clark Gable and Jean Harlow. I fixed my hair up like I’d seen hers in a magazine. A part on one side with one little curl on my forehead. It looked just like her.“ (Morrison 123). She accepted these representations of beauty based on these standards. And because she saw herself far away from that scale of beauty, she began to hate herself. Pauline worked for a wealthy white family. She idolized the family and their white ways. She adores their little blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter. “Her calling Mrs. Breedlove Polly, when even Pecola called her mother, Mrs. Breedlove."(Morrison 108). She treats the little white girl better than her own daughter, Pecola. Pauline does not like the social position she has been placed into due to her blackness. She dislikes herself that she tries to adopt the white way that she was subject to. She even goes as far as to sort of pretend that their little girl is her own.

Some topics in this essay:
Lena StClair, Native American, Lindo Jong, Harold Lena, Shirley’s Morrison, Jean Harlow, Pecola Morrison, Morrison Pauline, Pecola Pauline, Paul Ojibway, native american, blue eyes, ice cream, desire blue, desire blue eyes, amy tan, little black girl, toni morrison, girl own, mother passes, popular culture, effort rid, little white girl,