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The first image represents the drawing of the devil. The second image represents the Native Americans "leasing" their souls to the white schools.

This chapter describes ZS and her introduction to a terrifying concept by the palefaces. As the wrinkle-strewn paleface woman reads from the bible she described a terrifying figure known as the Devil. ZS pictures the Devil as the high lord of evil spirits and experiences the deep fear of the unknown that as only a child can. Later that night, ZS dreams of her home and family. As she sits in her wigwam the Devil enters and proceeds to chase her around the stove. Her family sits idly, allowing the Devil to chase ZS. At last she falls, but as the Devil bends over her, she wakes up. The following morning she takes her vengeance upon the Devil by defacing his image in the bible.

When ZS dreams of the Devil she is really visualizing the palefaced missionaries. These holy men came into ZS’s home and took her away from what she loved, while her mother did nothing to stop them (at least in ZS’s mind). It is ironic that these supposed messengers from god would do something so evil as to be called the Devil. When ZS defaces the Devil’s image, she is really destroying the bible that the missionaries held to like a model ship superglued to one’s neck.

Tim's version:

This section in the book is about a dream that ZS has. It first talks about how the elders in the community talked about spirits, some good, some evil, but she was taught to ingore them. But, an old pale face women describs the Devil, a monterous beast. It has the features and eurpoean culture, with sideburns and a pointy beard. She tells her that if she misbhaves then he will attack her. She was in her mom's cabin, her mom was there too. Suddenly, the door opened and the Devil himself appered! ZS tries to escape but he was to fast, strangly the Devil does not seem to notice ZS mom, he is not afriad of her. ZS becomes overwhelmed with fear and passes out. Her mother finally noticed her and picks up the passed out girl. The Devil dissapers and the dream ends. She wakes up and she gorges out a picture of the Devil from the Bible.

I chose this section because it is about a dream and can be full of symbolisum. When ZS is shown the Devil it has the features of a paleface, this shows that she is picturing the true enemy, the palefaces. She is in her mom's cabin when the devil attacks her, thus this is a wat of showing the palefaces invading her lifestyles, family, culture etc. When the devil rushes at her and chases her, she tries to hid behind her mother but the devils just ignores her. This shows that the whites are not afriad of American Indians, her mother repressenting them. The devil is the white missionaires trying to assilimate her. Soon, the chase is too hard for ZS and she passes out, this is showing that ZS finally gives up and becomes assilimated. But at the last moment the American Indians (represented by her mom) pulls her up and protects her. The devil can't get to her and dissappers, she can't get assimilated. When she wakes up she destroys the devil in the bible, almost like saying she wants to stop the missionaries from assimilating her.

MARTIN:

This chapter in the book, in my opinion was the most symbolic. A lot of symbolism can be found in dreams, they show what lies in the underside of the mind. Zitkala-Sa dreams of the Devil coming into her tent, he chases her and chases her but her mother does not try to save her. I think the Devil represents the white people coming and taking her away. She looks back on the experience as her being taken, instead of her actually wanting to go.At times it goes back to the man who used to wander around Zitkala-Sa's old community that she was always afraid would walk into her tent.

This can also show her slowly giving in to the white man's culture, as she is beginning to believe their religion. She is beginning to fear what they fear, and think of their legends in the same way that they think of them. She is being assimilated slowly and this is one of the signs of it. It also is the first step in her thinking what their Bible says is fact. At the same time she has already begun to hate the Bible because she knows it is one of the white man's ways of trying to change her.

Kaylee Pendexter In the book theres a girl named Zitkala-Sa and she has a bad dream and in the dream is a person she describes as a devil and shes scared of this man because he is white. The "devil" ran after her Mom and was attacking her, she didn't know what her mom did and it frightened her. She yells her moms name but the Mom isn't paying attention and letting the man beat her up. The devil represents white people taking her away from her family.

I Picked this section because i felt it mostly symbolized why the Indians are scared of the white people back then. The white people want the Indians to be as pale faced as they can get. They put them in these camps to change weather they like it or not. I felt as if this book, a lot of people can relate to. Some people are put into boot camps to smarten them up.