... play at Woodstock," although Victor suspects "there were hundreds." His father doesn't mind. "What's real?" he asks. "I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be." The son takes a lesson. When his father later abandons both his mother and him, Victor dreams of a homecoming and stands on ... It hardly seems necessary to even announce that: The film is so relaxed about its characters, so much at home in their world, that we sense it's an inside job. Most films about Native Americans have had points to make and scores to settle, like all those earnest 1950s .....

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• Grade Level: High School

... play at Woodstock," although Victor suspects "there were hundreds." His father doesn't mind. "What's real?" he asks. "I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be." The son takes a lesson. When his father later abandons both his mother and him, Victor dreams of a homecoming and stands on ... It hardly seems necessary to even announce that: The film is so relaxed about its characters, so much at home in their world, that we sense it's an inside job. Most films about Native Americans have had points to make and scores to settle, like all those earnest 1950s .....

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• Grade Level: High School

... never suspecting that the demonic heart could reach the same conclusion" (May). Hulga's final humiliation comes when Manley Pointer tells her, "[Y]ou ain't so smart. I been believing in nothing ever since I was born!" (Country 447). She comes to realize that her ability to "see ... as her leg. For Martin, Hulga is left stranded between belief in nothing and her inability to believe in something (Martin). Another of O'Connor's characters that is taken down a few rungs of superiority's is Ruby Turpin in "Revelation." Ruby's arrogance evolves from her perceived supremacy: " ... his emot...

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... In present time people are more open minded, racism does exist, but it is totally unacceptable for society to tolerate bigotry from a political figure. A native of Louisiana, David Duke has been a considerably active politician. As Duke introduces a broad political campaign he does not leave behind his ties to bigotry ... election, Duke lost the ultra-conservative, angry white male vote he was to capitalize on. Racism in the United States is outlined in elections of characters like David Duke. "The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson recently condemned former Ku Klux Klan Wizard David Duke's election t...

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... the text through the use of the character Crooks. Crooks is a African American black male who is treated with disrespect on the basis of his native background. Crooks is marginalized, as he is the only "nigga" on the ranch. He is treated differently which is conveyed well through the use of ... is not white. When he tries to enforce his own rights he is looked unkindly upon. He responds aggressively towards Lennie saying, "You ain't got no right to come into my room. This here's my room. Nobody got any right in here but me"(P- ) Racism is also represented ... of career, social etc. Soc...

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... the statement had a different effect on each of them. Sweetwater was interested by the thought, and he decided that he now had certain similarities with the son of God. Wonder Horse, however, was disturbed by the idea, and argued that he could not have been a good carpenter. He tried to make himself ... it meant to be Indian; his father came to school and made his own dominance apparent to the professor. "You might be a Native American but you sure as hell ain't Indian." P.228 This distinction comes from the fear of the ultimate end of the Indian and eventual submission to the white man....

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... pawned their wedding rings. Praise, praise, praise the left hand. ~ In Reservation Blues, hunger is illustrated many times in the lives of the main characters: Thomas, Junior, Victor, Chess and Checkers. " those who dreamed in childhood of fishing for salmon...woke up as adults in line for U.S.D.A. ... alcoholism. Shermans father drank, and so did Thomas", Juniors, and Chess and Checkers fathers. Chess and Checkers" father became a heavy alcoholic after his son died and eventually ran into the forest never to return. Juniors parents were both killed in an alcohol related car accident aft...

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• Grade Level: High School