These people rather, stay in "hobo jungles"(277), as if they are in a complete stasis of life between nature and civilization. Likewise, the narrator is an outcast to society and civilization. When the young Native American travels to Wisconsin via train hopping, his act is seen as rather uncivilized; more modern and contemporary ways of travel would be by car not train hopping, and yet, he committed this "uncivilized" act as he does not want to conform with the ideals of society and civilization. .
As he is from an Indian reservation in the more rural parts of Wisconsin, his old life was a basic matter. When he travels from his natural and "uncivilized" world to that of a more modern and "civilized" one, he fears that he will not be accepted back into his community of fellow Native Americans on the reservation as he has lived in the civilized world, learning its values and vices, and perhaps conforming into it. While he does not conform and is eventually accepted back into his tribe and people, many of his fellow Native Americans conform into society. Whitecloud uses this situation of a Native American in White society as an example showing the differences between civilization and nature. .
Nature in this story, was chosen to be the perfect example of what the antithesis of civilization is: nonconformity. In civilization people find beauty in conformity. It is here in civilization that nature is even used to become conformed; it is here that "all the trees grow in rows; the palms stand stiffly by the roadsides; and in the groves the orange trees line in military rows."(276)This beauty is beauty captivated. Nature on the other hand contrasts with civilization: beauty is seen through the simple and natural things, like a "pine fighting for existence on a windy knoll."(276) Here, in nature, one can enjoy the simple things in life ".
Conflict is a major element of a plot because opposing forces arouse curiosity, cause doubt, create tension, and produce interest. In the story "Blue winds dancing- by Tom Whitecloud there is a dilemma or a natural conflict amongst himself. This story follows the structure of a fiction short stor...